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Rupert Murdoch, right, Chairman and CEO of News Corp., and Eddy Cue, vice president of Apple, attend the launch of the Daily, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 in New York. The Daily is the world's first iPad-only newspaper. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Customers leave a coffee shop with a large snowman on display in Clarence, N.Y., Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
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Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen (right) and Irish President Mary McAleese (second from left) arrive at Aras an Uachtarain, the official residence of the Irish president, in Dublin on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, to sign a request for a Proclamation of Dissolution of the Irish parliament. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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BP PLC Chief Executive Bob Dudley, at a press conference at the BP headquarters in London, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. BP announced Tuesday it is resuming dividend payouts for the first time since the Gulf of Mexico well disaster, despite suffering its first full-year loss since 1992, and plans to sell off almost half of its U.S. refinery business. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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Sen. Mark Warner (left), Virginia Democrat, and Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Georgia Republican, are working on a bill that incorporates controversial recommendations from the president's fiscal commission. Mr. Warner said Monday that Congress must cut federal spending, "including entitlement programs," enact comprehensive tax reform and "grow the economy by adopting an innovation and growth agenda." He added, "It will require all three of those elements because no single one of them alone will get the job done." (Associated Press)
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Exxon said Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, net income grew 53 percent in the fourth quarter as oil prices rose and the company increased production.( AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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FILE - This file photograph taken July 14, 2010, shows Gannett headquarters in McLean, Va. Gannett Co., the country's biggest newspaper publisher, said Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, fourth-quarter earnings jumped 30 percent as political advertising lifted revenue at its television stations and costs fell. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file)
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In this undated film publicity image released by The Weinstein Company, director Tom Hooper is shown on the set of, "The King's Speech." (AP Photo/The Weinstein Company, Laurie Sparham) NO SALES
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Police fire rubber bullets at protesters outside the meeting hall of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. More than two dozen senior officials from key economies will try Saturday to agree on whether to send a political signal that a new global trade deal can, at last, be completed this year as the World Economic Forum gradually comes to a close. (AP Photo/KEYSTONE/Jean-Christophe Bott)
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From left, Tunisia's Central Bank Governor Mustapha Kamel Nabli, Tunisia's Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Yassine Brahim and Minister of Communication Technology Sami Zaoui participate in a media conference regarding recent events in Tunisia at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2008 file photo, a projected image of the Comcast logo is seen at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Comcast, the nation's largest cable TV company, says it will complete its takeover of NBC Universal at just before midnight Eastern time, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. The deal will give Comcast Corp. 51 percent of the fourth-ranked broadcaster NBC, a bevy of cable channels and the Universal Pictures movie studio. It caps a yearlong regulatory review that resulted in conditions meant to keep it from stifling the growth of online video services such as Netflix and Hulu. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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Trader David O'Day talks on his mobile phone as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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**FILE** Shoppers browse Nov. 26 at an electronics store in Albuquerque, N.M. The economy gained strength at the end of last year as Americans spent at the fastest pace in four years and U.S. companies sold more overseas. The growth is boosting hopes for a stronger 2011. The Commerce Department reported Friday that growth rose to an annual rate of 3.2 percent in the October-December quarter. (Associated Press)
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Former South African President Nelson Mandela is wheeled out on a stretcher, as he leaves the Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Mr. Mandela was discharged to begin home-based care, after spending two-and-a-half days in hospital for treatment for a respiratory infection. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
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A man uses his mobile phone near the sign advertising Samsung Electronics Co's HD TV screen at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Samsung Electronics said net profit rose 13 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010 amid higher sales of semiconductors and smartphones as the technology giant rounded out a record year for profits and revenue. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
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** FILE ** The AT&T logo is displayed on the side of a corporate office in Springfield, Ill., in July 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
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Lenovo Group Chief Executive Officer Yang Yuanqing, left, shakes hands with NEC President Nobuhiro Endo during a joint press conference in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. NEC and China's Lenovo said Thursday they will join forces to create the largest personal computer business in Japan. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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Sony Computer Entertainment President and CEO Kazuo Hirai shows a new PlayStation Portable "NGP" at PlayStation Meeting 2011 in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. Sony says the upgraded version of its PlayStation Portable machine will go on sale late this year. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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The new PlayStation Portable "NGP" is displayed at PlayStation Meeting 2011 in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. Sony says an upgraded version of its PlayStation Portable machine will go on sale late this year. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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FILE - In this file photo made Jan. 9, 2010, the Qualcomm logo is seen at an exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Qualcomm Inc., releases quarterly financial earnings Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011, after the market close. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
