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FILE - In this July 27, 2010 file photo, Peter Chou, chief executive officer of Taiwan's High Tech Computer Corp., or HTC Corp., talks about the introduction of the brand into China's market during a press conference held in Beijing, China. East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are anonymous. Now HTC Corp., the Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
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In this file photo made March 3, 2010, Hewlett-Packard Company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd speaks during an appearance in Conway, Ark. Mr. Hurd was appointed co-president of Oracle Corp. Tuesday. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
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In this photo released by VisMedia, the newly announced Barclays PLC Chief Executive Robert E. Diamond Jr., center, poses for a photograph with outgoing Barclays CEO John Varley, left, and Barclays chairman Marcus Agius, right, at Barclays headquarters in Canary Wharf, London, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Mr. Diamond, who built Barclays PLC into a global powerhouse in investment banking and has been criticized for his lavish pay, will become chief executive next year, the company announced Tuesday. (AP Photo/VisMedia, Daniel Lewis)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS President Barack Obama rallies the crowd Monday in Milwaukee, where he proposed more spending to create jobs and berated the GOP as the "party of no."
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Edem "Archie" Archibong, 57, of Aurora, Colo., is trying to start a cab company to serve Greater Denver, but local regulations have stalled those plans. "Competition is good for us, good for the industry and good for the public, as well," he said. (Christian Toto/Special to The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** In a Monday, July 21, 2008, file photo, Blackwater Worldwide's headquarters is seen in Moyock, N.C. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
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President Barack Obama, center, delivers a statement on the monthly jobs number on Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. From left are, outgoing Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, the president, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Small Business Administrator (SBA) Karen G. Mills and National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division for the Justice Department Tony West speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, regarding a major settlement with a pharmaceutical company for False Claims Act and off-label marketing violations. Allergan Inc., the maker of wrinkle-smoothing Botox, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a years long federal investigation into its marketing of the top-selling drug. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Sally Yates, speaks to reporters during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday, Sep. 1, 2010, regarding a major settlement with a pharmaceutical company for False Claims Act and off-label marketing violations. Allergan Inc., the maker of wrinkle-smoothing Botox, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a yearslong federal investigation into its marketing of the top-selling, botulin-based drug. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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A sign reads in Greek "Smoking room" as employees smoke at a state-run bank in central Athens, on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. Greece will implement a comprehensive ban on all indoor public places starting Wednesday, Sept. 1. Greece has among the highest smoking rates among developing countries around the world. (AP Photo/Alkis Konstantinidis )
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In this Sept. 1, 2010 ,photo, traders and specialists work the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. (AP Photo/David Karp)
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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The contemporary-style stucco home at 1924 Rhode Island Ave. is on the market for $949,000. The home has four bedrooms and three full baths.
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Thomas Richter, head of portfolio management for telecommunications, Europe, of Samsung presents the new Samsung Galaxy Tab, a tablet computer to compete with the Apple iPad, right, at IFA, the world's largest trade fair for consumer electronics and electrical home appliances, in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, right, and Robert Zoellick, left, president of the World Bank, leave for the lunch break from the morning session of the annual Federal Reserve conference, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, in Jackson, Wyo. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Thomas Baxter, Jr., general counsel and executive vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs displays the new AppleTV at news conference in San Francisco, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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This image made Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, shows the Google News website page. The Associated Press said Monday in a statement that Google Inc. will be able to continue posting content from the AP under a new licensing deal after months of negotiations. (AP Photo)
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In this Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 photo, Johnnie Coleman, right, of MainOne Cable talks with a visitor at the cable landing station in Lagos, Nigeria. For a decade, West Africa's main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet. But this summer, a new $250-million MainOne cable snaked along the West African coastline ending at Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos. It has more than five times the capacity of the old one and is set to bring competition to a market where wholesale Internet access costs nearly 500 times as much as it does in the U.S. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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FILE - In this file photo made Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010, the 3M Co. logo is seen on some of their products in Philadelphia. Technology company 3M Co. said Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, it has agreed to acquire Cogent Inc. in a deal worth about $933 million. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)
