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CBS Mulling Entering Movie Business

NEW YORK – CBS Corp. (CBS) is exploring a possible entry into the movie business, with a view toward producing a handful of smaller-budget films annually, Chief Executive Les Moonves said Wednesday. “We are exploring it,” Moonves said at a PricewaterhouseCoopers media event in New York. “We’re not looking to …

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Survey: One-Third of Europeans Found to Be Computer Illiterate

BRUSSELS, Belgium – More than a third of adults in the European Union are unable to perform basic computer tasks such as using a mouse to open Internet or word processing programs, according to a survey released Tuesday. Denmark and Sweden fared the best in the survey by the European …

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Japan High Court Rejects Koizumi War Shrine Visit Lawsuit

TOKYO – Japan’s Supreme Court rejected a suit Friday challenging the constitutionality of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi‘s visits to a Tokyo war shrine, a court spokesman said. The ruling, on a suit filed by relatives of Japanese, Chinese and South Korean war dead, is the first by the nation’s top …

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