Visitors to Shanghai's World Expo say organizers have plenty of kinks to iron out before the event — the biggest-ever World's Fair — formally opens on May Day.

With only a few pavilions participating, many who visited on the first day left frustrated.

Around the city, security also has been tightened: subway passengers must have their bags scanned, and vehicles entering the city also are inspected. Police raids earlier this month netted some 6,000 detainees, including dozens of foreigners suspected of being in China illegally or of using illicit drugs, state media reported, citing police.

Photos of Day One of the trials, which was mostly closed to foreign media, show wall-to-wall people in Expo-linked subway stations, security checks and the open plazas of the park.

Thirsty visitors had to buy drinks or bring an empty bottle to fill up from fountains equipped with filtration systems since Shanghai's tap water is, according to locals and the U.S. Centers of Disease Control, unsafe to drink.

Ding left his home in downtown Shanghai at 7 a.m., but spent two hours lining up to get into the park. He said he only had time to spend a few minutes in the USA Pavilion, which was not running its full program, and that it was too late to get into the China Pavilion — the Expo's biggest attraction.

He managed to enter the African Pavilion, but gave up on queuing for any others.

"It was very disappointing, so we had a walk around and just went home," Ding said.

Officials in Shanghai, a city of 20 million, have warned visitors to expect long waits, both in security checks and at the entrances to pavilions.

"Three big suggestions for fixes: space, time and mindset," the Shanghai Morning Post said Wednesday in the closest China's state-controlled media came to criticizing the Expo's first seven-hour trial run, involving 200,000 people.

The Expo, which runs May 1-Oct. 31, showcases the latest in concepts for "Better City, Better Life" in pavilions from practically every country and many international organizations, cities and big corporations.

The event is a landmark occasion for Shanghai, giving China's biggest city a chance to show off its forests of ultramodern skyscrapers and elegant shopping boulevards.

Some 70 million people are expected to visit, and organizers have said they will limit the number entering the park on any single day to 600,000.

For the Shanghainese, who have put up with years of inconvenience from construction of new roads, subway lines and other Expo-related infrastructure, the 10-day trial run will give many a sneak preview of the city's biggest new attraction.

"If people weren't lining up, it wouldn't be cool," the Post suggested as the proper "mindset" needed to cope with the long queues that visitors faced.

Visitors said they were disappointed with the food, the long lines and the limited number of pavilions open by the time they finally got through security checks and into the vast Expo park.

"Before I went, I was mentally prepared that it would be very crowded, but it turns out I underestimated," said Ding Yangshen, a 64-year-old retired engineer, who visited the park with his wife using trial-run tickets from his government-worker son.

By the afternoon, the sinks were heaped with trash and Expo convenience store shelves were empty. With simple meals priced at 38 yuan (about $5.50) and up, many visitors went for snacks instead.

"I wasted two hours waiting for a bowl of noodles. The food is at least twice as expensive as it should be," said a retired woman who gave only her surname, Cai.

Cai left for the Expo park at 5 a.m. but still was unable to get into the China Pavilion, a huge red monument designed to take in only 30,000 visitors a day.

"I am exhausted," Cai said. "In a word, it is not that fun, very inconvenient," she said.

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Returning from Mexico, Michelle Obama made a brief stop Thursday in San Diego to visit a community garden farmed by international refugees that she called a model for building healthy communities across the nation and around the world.

Some 80 farmers from a dozen countries work at the 2.3-acre farm, a project of the International Rescue Committee that started in June 2009 on city-owned land. Many grow vegetables, like kale, that they grew in the native countries they left because of civil wars and other violence.

Millions of children in the United States live in what Obama called "food deserts," places where there is no easy access to grocery stores or farmers markets. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says about one-third of children in America are either overweight or obese.

Refugees speaking different languages raised funds for the farm and then worked side by side, sharing two hoses at first. Since then they have started swapping recipes and losing weight, Obama said.

Tsitsi Mutseta, 43, moved to San Diego from Zimbabwe eight years ago. She said the garden helped ease her mind as she adjusted to her new life in the United States, far from her family. She told Obama it also has given her peace as she fights cancer.

"I told her I come to the garden to relieve my pain. I get food from the garden that is organic and it connects me with my family because I grew up on a small farm in Zimbabwe," said Mutseta, a tall woman who wrapped her arms around Obama and gave her leaves from her kale crop. "She said she would pray for me and she loved what I did in the garden."

Obama's campaign has teamed with The California Endowment to support initiatives that promote farmers markets, make neighborhoods safe and walkable, revamp city parks and get people — especially children — eating healthy and exercising.

The California Endowment plans to grant $100 million a year over the next 10 years to the initiatives designed by members of the 14 communities, said Dr. Anthony Iton, senior vice president of the foundation's healthy communities project.

"It's a model for the nation, for the world," Obama said after touring the 89 plots, where she hugged the farmers, including a Somalian woman who had Obama's picture and a map of Africa printed on her traditional bright blue dress.

The garden provides fresh produce to the refugees and their families. Some of the fruits and vegetables also are sold at a farmers market and to local restaurants, giving the refugees some income. About 90 percent of the farmers have been unable to find a job because they do not have the skills or do not speak English.

Obama toured the New Roots Community Farm to promote her "Let's Move!" campaign against childhood obesity. The event kicked off a $1 billion project by The California Endowment to fund healthy living initiatives in 14 communities across the state, including the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego, where the community farm is located.

Obama's visit follows a week of travel that included a tour of earthquake-ravaged Haiti and a stop in Mexico to launch an agenda about inspiring young people around the world to become involved in their societies.

The project seeks to change lifestyles in low-income communities. Iton cited new research showing people live as many as 14 years longer in richer communities that offer safe parks, inviting bike lanes and organic grocery stores.

"You can predict how long somebody will live based on their address, and we should not be able to do that," he said, pointing out that even in a physically fit city like San Diego where people bike, surf and sail daily, there are "pockets" where families have no access to fruits and vegetables and places to exercise.

Obama's campaign includes introducing healthier school lunches and encouraging food manufacturers to reduce the sugar, salt and fat in foods.

Obama said the San Diego farm shows that "farmers coming from different corners of the globe recognized a common problem here in America" — the lack of fresh produce in people's diets and the health problems that causes.

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Toyota is testing the safety of all its sport-utility models after a U.S. consumer magazine warned against buying the 2010 Lexus GX 460 for possible roll-over problems, the Japanese automaker said Thursday.

Toyota officials in Tokyo said the company was carrying out tests that were as close to those by Consumer Reports as possible.

Toyota has said that it does not yet know what the possible problems could be, but was working on it so that Consumer Reports would be able to retest the GX 460 and give it a satisfactory rating.

Consumer Reports, widely read by many car buyers because of its reputation as fair, has raised red flags over Toyotas previously. In January, the magazine pulled its "recommended" rating on eight vehicles recalled by the automaker due to faulty gas pedals.

For the GX 460, Consumer Reports said the problem occurred during tests on its track. In a standard test, the driver approached a turn unusually fast, then released the accelerator pedal to simulate the response of an alarmed driver. This caused the rear of the vehicle to slide outward.

But Toyota Motor Corp., plagued by a spate of recalls since October last year, said it had not yet decided whether to recall the GX 460, sold mainly in North America but also in the Middle East, Russia and some other nations. Some Japanese media reported Toyota was considering a recall.

Toyota stopped selling the GX 460 in North America temporarily Tuesday within hours of the Consumer Reports warning, acting relatively quickly to the report after being criticized as slow in responding to consumer complaints on faulty gas pedals, defective floor mats and braking software glitches.

Under normal circumstances, the electronic stability control should quickly correct the loss of control and keep the SUV on its intended path.

But with the GX 460, the stability control took too long to adjust, which could cause a rollover accident if one of the sliding wheels were to strike the curb or another obstacle, according to Consumer Reports.

Toyota said it sold about 6,000 of the GX 460 worldwide. The manufacturer behind the Prius hybrid and Camry sedan makes a wide range of sport-utility vehicles, including the RAV4, Land Cruiser and 4Runner.

Since October, Toyota has recalled more than 8 million vehicles worldwide and has promised to be more transparent and responsive to consumer complaints.

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Toyota Motor Corp. has suspended sales of the 2010 Lexus GX 460 after Consumer Reports warned car shoppers not to buy the sport utility vehicle because handling problems could lead to rollover accidents during sharp turns.

The decision to stop selling the SUV adds another stain to Toyota's safety reputation following the recall of more than 8 million cars and trucks worldwide over gas pedals that are too slow to retract or can become stuck under floor mats. Toyota faces a $16.4 million fine from the Transportation Department and has until April 19 to decide whether to contest the penalty.

Consumer Reports is closely read by many car buyers before choosing a new car or truck and has raised red flags over Toyotas before. In January, the magazine pulled its "recommended" rating on eight vehicles recalled by the automaker due to faulty gas pedals.

In this case, Consumer Reports said the Lexus problem occurred during tests on its track. In a standard test, the driver approached a turn unusually fast, then released the accelerator pedal to simulate the response of an alarmed driver. This caused the rear of the vehicle to slide outward.

Under normal circumstances, the electronic stability control should quickly correct the loss of control and keep the SUV on its intended path. But with the GX 460, the stability control took too long to adjust, which could cause a rollover accident if one of the sliding wheels were to strike the curb or another obstacle, said Gabriel Shenhar, Consumer Reports' senior auto test engineer, one of four testers who experienced the problem.

The GX 460 is not covered by the pedal recalls.

"We are taking the situation with the GX 460 very seriously and are determined to identify and correct the issue Consumer Reports identified," said Mark Templin, Lexus vice president and general manager.

Lexus will provide a loaner car for any customer who bought a 2010 GX 460 and is concerned about driving the vehicle, Templin said. Customers who have questions or concerns about the GX 460 can call Lexus at 800-255-3987.

Toyota said Tuesday it had asked dealers to temporarily suspend sales of the SUV while it conducts its own tests on the GX 460. About 6,000 GX 460s from the 2010 model year have been sold since the vehicle went on sale in late December, and an estimated 1,600 of the SUVs are at dealerships.

The carmaker issued the temporary "stop sale" within hours after the popular consumer magazine raised the handling problem. It reflects Toyota's attempt to respond more quickly to safety concerns after being castigated by the federal government for dragging its feet on recalls to address faulty gas pedals.

The magazine said it is not aware of any reports of the GX 460 rolling over. It tested two separate vehicles, both of which experienced the problem, but neither rolled over.

The warning label on the model will remain until Toyota addresses the handling issue with the seven-seat SUV.

Templin said in a statement he was "confident that the GX meets our high safety standards" and said Toyota's engineering teams were testing the GX using Consumer Reports' specific parameters.

The GX 460, which starts at about $52,000, is built on the same platform as the Toyota 4Runner. However, Consumer Reports said the problem did not occur during similar tests on the 4Runner. According to Toyota's Web site, both vehicles are about 6 feet tall, but the GX 460 is about 3 inches taller.

Consumer Reports said the last vehicle to receive such a safety warning was the 2001 Mitsubishi Montero Limited, a large SUV. In that case, testers said the wheels lifted off the road during standard avoidance-maneuver tests, which also posed a rollover risk.

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President Barack Obama's nuclear summit has paid early dividends: China's agreement to work with the U.S. on possible sanctions against Iran and Ukraine's decision to rid itself of nuclear bomb-making materials.

Obama's meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao was the last of the summit warm-up sessions before the U.S. leader sat down with his guests at a working dinner.

But when pressed on whether China had committed to anything specific on the sanctions front, Bader was less direct.

"We are going to be — we've started to work that and we're going to be working on that in the coming days — coming days and weeks," he said. Obama wants agreement on sanctions before summer.

The Ukrainians, who gave a major boost to arms control in 1994 when they agreed to surrender the nuclear weapons they inherited in the collapse of the Soviet Union, agreed to get rid of their weapons-grade fuel by 2012.

Some details are yet to be worked out, including how and where the nuclear fuel will be disposed of, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.

The material could be sent to the U.S. or Russia, but Gibbs declined to specify the amount, other than to say it was enough to make several nuclear weapons.

When the summit begins in earnest on Tuesday, the talks will take up Obama's goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons, with efforts to lock down materials to build those bombs an urgent first step.

After the Hu meeting, White House national security aide Jeff Bader said Iran was a major topic of discussion at the 90-minute session.

"They're prepared to work with us," Bader said, interpreting that willingness as "another sign of international unity on this issue."

Obama has been pressing the case that a fourth round of sanctions are needed to persuade Iran to alter its perceived course toward a nuclear weapons capability.

China, while historically averse to tough sanctions and uneasy about potential damage to its trade relationship with Tehran, may indeed be coming on board with Obama. He already has the robust backing of Great Britain, France and Germany. Russia, too, has shown a willingness to join the sanctions effort, which would give Obama the required clean sweep of permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

Obama opened the global security summit Monday night after two days of meetings with selected presidents and prime ministers of the 47 countries assembled to recharge efforts to keep nuclear material out of terrorist hands. It ends Tuesday with a joint declaration to guide future work toward locking away and cleansing the globe of materials still too easily accessible to terrorists.

China's incremental move toward U.S. ambitions to sanction Iran and Ukraine's plans get rid of highly enriched uranium put some wind in Obama's sails as he presses global leaders to join him in locking down all nuclear materials within four years.

Tons of plutonium and highly enriched uranium are believed to be insufficiently protected from international criminal gangs and terrorist organizations.

"Al-Qaida is especially notable for its long-standing interest in weapons-usable nuclear material and the requisite expertise that would allow it to develop a yield-producing improvised nuclear device," John Brennan, the White House anti-terrorism chief, told reporters Monday. "And its interest remains strong today."

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Apple Inc.'s iPhone and iPad devices will soon be able to run more than one program at a time, an ability that phones from Apple's rivals already offer and that iPhone owners have long sought.

That will change with the updates known as iPhone OS 4. Apple generally makes such updates available for free, and often automatically, as a software download.

Full multitasking had been high on many people's wish lists. Because Apple's new iPad runs the same software as the iPhone, changes would apply to that larger gadget as well. Some people have held off buying one because of its inability to run more than one program at once.

Other updates include the ability to have messages from multiple e-mail accounts land in a single inbox and a way to connect an iPhone with a regular keyboard using Bluetooth wireless technology.

But Apple still won't support Flash technology, even though many Web sites require it for displaying video. Flash was alongside multitasking at the top of many wish lists.

Although Apple is making the updates available to all iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad models, some features will only work with newer versions. The multitasking function, for example, won't work with the original iPhone or the iPhone 3G — only the 3GS versions that came out last summer. For the iPod Touch, you'd need the models that came out late last year.

Jobs also announced an advertising platform called iAd in which Apple will sell and host ads to run on apps made by outside developers; those developers will get 60 percent of the ad revenue. Jobs said users shouldn't find the ads annoying because Apple will make it easy for people to navigate back to what they were doing before clicking.

"It really changes the way you use the iPhone," Jobs said. "You're bouncing around the apps with tremendous fluidity."

Jobs said the company waited so long because it wanted to offer multitasking in a way that didn't drain the iPhone's battery or reduce the phone's performance.

In demonstrating the feature, Jobs double-tapped on the iPhone's main button while playing a game to reveal a row of icons for other programs that were quietly running in the background and accessible with a finger tap.

Multitasking could enhance the functionality of Internet phone services such as Skype. Currently, a call automatically ends if you exit the Skype app. With multitasking, that call could continue while you look up directions, or you could receive incoming Skype calls even if you're reading the news or a "Gossip Girl" blog instead.

The changes, coming this summer to iPhones and this fall to iPads, mean that users might be able to listen to music through the Pandora program and check a bank account online simultaneously. Currently, users must return to Apple's home screen, effectively quitting the open program, before starting a new task.

"We weren't the first to this party, but we're going to be the best," Apple CEO Steve Jobs declared Thursday, as bloggers, software developers and others in the audience greeted the news of such "multitasking" with applause.

The iPhone already permits some multitasking, but that's largely limited to Apple's own programs. Apple had not given users ways to seamlessly switch among all the software "apps" available from outside software companies, the way phones from rivals Palm Inc. and Google Inc. already do.

He admitted that Apple is still "babes in woods" when it comes to advertising, though the company is learning fast through Quattro Wireless, a mobile advertising company that Apple bought in January for an undisclosed amount. Jobs said the company had wanted to buy mobile advertising service AdMob, but lost out to Google. That deal is undergoing regulatory review.

Jobs also said the company has sold 450,000 iPads since its launch Saturday. The company earlier said it delivered more than 300,000 iPads on the first day, though that included pre-orders and units shipped to retail stores such as Best Buy but not necessarily purchased right away.

The iPad models currently on sale connect to the Internet using Wi-Fi, at prices that start at $499.

Shares of Apple fell 65 cents to close Thursday at $239.95.

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The shrines of candles and flowers and the broken pieces of steel standing at ground zero became iconic images of post-Sept. 11 New York in the weeks after the terrorist attack.

Another exhibit focusing on the cleanup of the trade center site by thousands of ground zero workers will project images of workers at the site onto huge remnants of steel from the destroyed twin towers.

A centerpiece of one exhibit will be a three-pronged trident column from a trade center tower rising out of a pile of recovered steel, with an image of the same column projected onto it. A recording of recovery workers talking about the desperate search for survivors and recovery of remains will be heard over the exhibit.

The exhibits will be enhanced with the recorded testimony of witnesses from around the globe, captured in real time by cell phone messages, radio transmissions and video, and in recorded interviews with rescue workers, evacuees and others within minutes of the collapse, Museum Director Alice Greenwald said Thursday.

Museum officials presented the latest exhibits for the museum — slated to open in 2012 — at a Thursday meeting of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.

The exhibits "will chronicle not only the shared witness to the horrific events of Sept. 11, but the extraordinary compassion and dedication that were demonstrated time and again during the days, weeks and months following the horrific attacks," Greenwald said.

The museum has a $45 million budget for the exhibitions, planning and design, according to the 9/11 Memorial's exhibition summary. The downtown rebuilding agency gave $2.2 million to help fund the exhibits.

Visitors to the planned memorial museum will see recreations of the vigils and makeshift memorials that sprang up around the city and the eight-month cleanup of the destroyed World Trade Center in exhibits focusing on New Yorkers' post-9/11 experience.

New renderings obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday show a woman paying respects over dozens of candles, flowers, teddy bears and a construction worker's helmet. The homemade shrines covered the city in the weeks after the attacks, particularly at Manhattan's Union Square, where relatives came with pictures of their missing loved ones.

Visitors will pass through a "Where were you on 9/11?" gallery, where a choreographed multimedia program will offer recorded recollections of what people across the world were doing and how they learned of the 2001 terrorist attack through a choreographed multimedia program.

At the end of that interpretive journey, visitors will be able to record their own stories on where they were on that fateful day, and those will be added to the exhibit.

Listening stations will allow visitors to hear personal stories from volunteers and survivors, as well as from individuals whose homes and businesses were inundated with the debris and dust from the collapsed towers.

And a series of panels will pose open-ended questions on how the experience of the terrorist attacks continues to shape the world.

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"Man, this is cool," said yet another of my friends who'd come to "ooh" and "aah" over my new iPad. "But do I really need it?" That's what everyone has asked me in my many iPad discussions over the past week. Just Tuesday, a clerk at Apple's flagship Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan posed the question to me.

Then again, that's just me. I've heard from photographers who say the iPad could be perfect for viewing and editing snapshots in the field. Doctors — who've always been fans of tablet PCs — say the iPad could be a godsend for calling up charts or taking notes while on their rounds. My dad, an avid amateur pilot, wants an iPad so he can refer to (and even alter) his flight plans without having to deal with a cumbersome laptop or the tiny iPhone display.

Let's not forget that the success or failure of the iPad as a productivity tool lies in its apps. Although more than 2,000 are already in the app store, the iPad app market is still in its infancy. Most iPad apps I've seen so far are little more than super-size versions of iPhone apps, and some are painfully clunky and crashy. (The first third-party iPhone apps were pretty unstable too.) I'm confident that the market will flourish, especially in terms of productivity tools — but for now, we'll just have to wait.

As an e-reader, I consider the iPad a mixed bag. Its display is no doubt prettier than that of the Kindle or the Nook — the iPad's large color screen is easy on the eyes when reading at home on the sofa — but the 1.5-pound iPad is significantly bigger and heavier. I'd prefer a 10.2-ounce Kindle in my hand when I'm crammed like a sardine a crowded subway. As far as reading the iPad outdoors goes, well, you might want to consider sticking with good old-fashioned books and magazines, given that the iPad's display looks washed out in direct sunlight (not to mention its allergic reaction to heat and water).

I've been using the iPad about four days now. Sometimes I'm convinced it could be the beginning of a new era in personal computing ("Just look at the Web on this thing"). Other times I get so frustrated ("No multitasking!") that I break down and crack open my laptop or switch to my iPhone.

We could debate the significance of the iPad all day, but in the end, it's just a gadget. If it adds something to your life — if you find it useful or it makes you happy — go right ahead and plunk down that $499 (for the 16GB model) to $829 (for the 64GB, 3G-enabled version). If it doesn't, don't. I'm not here to convince you otherwise.

Is the iPad really useful? Do you — does anyone — need one? Frankly, that depends on what you plan to use it for. Consider this: Even if you deem the iPad little more than a $500 extravagance, is it any more of an extravagance than a $400 game console, or a $1,500 46-inch HDTV? I don't need a 46-inch TV, but I'm certainly happy I have one.

So the key question is whether the iPad is the right tool — or, yes, toy — for you.

Sure, I love surfing the Web and watching videos on the iPad — but do I need the iPad? Is that even the right question?

Plenty of people already have their minds made up. They'll tell you the iPad is a) the greatest thing that's happened to personal computing since the mouse, or b) the latest extravagance from a megalomaniac who's tricked countless suckers into drinking his Kool-Aid. Indeed, in more than a dozen years of writing about technology, I've found the iPad to be possibly the single most polarizing gadget I've ever covered. There might be more consensus about health care than there is over the iPad. 

Game-wise, while the range is still a bit spotty, some gems are already out there (EXO-Planet, Plants Vs. Zombies, Scrabble), and we're only at T-plus-four since the iPad launch. Baseball fans sitting in hotel rooms can follow live video of their favorite teams via MLB At Bat 2010. Streaming movies and TV shows via Netflix, ABC, and (soon) Slingplayer? Check. And with its 10 hours of battery life (yep, it's true; I've been getting about two days of on-again, off-again use between charges), you won't have to worry about the iPad running out of juice during your flight, unless it's a haul to Sydney or Tokyo.

Yes, you can watch movies and baseball and play games on a laptop, too, but the last thing I want to bring on vacation to South Beach is my laptop. An iPad, though? Totally.

Then there are the iPad's missing features. Where are the USB ports? Why no camera? Well, Apple will soon offer a kit with both USB and SD card adapters for $29, but that's a clumsy solution. As for the camera: Yep, another big problem. I'm not all that keen on snapping pictures with the iPad, but a front-facing camera would have given the iPad a killer app: face-to-face video conferencing. No dice.

Yes, it feels heavy, but the iPad is beautifully engineered and constructed, and it's fast — way fast. As someone who likes surfing the Web while the TV's on, I love that the iPad is always sitting on the coffee table, waiting to browse. The so-so collection of iPad apps available now will grow over time. And if you've got a specific need to fill (as would, say, a doctor, a photographer, a pilot), the iPad might be just the ticket. And even if you don't really need an iPad, you might still enjoy it.

But if you buy the iPad now, make no mistake: You're buying a first-generation product. Twelve months from now, when the 10-ounce iPad 2 with its twin 8-megapixel cameras and high-resolution, full-color e-ink display arrives, you'll be green-eyed with envy, guaranteed.
As long as you walk into your local Apple store eyes wide open, then hey: Go for it.
— Ben Patterson is a technology writer for Yahoo! News.

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Apple Inc. said Monday that it delivered more than 300,000 iPads on its opening day, meeting expectations of some analysts while underscoring the challenges the company still faces marketing the device beyond early adopters.

The same hoopla that drew eager shoppers to long lines outside of Apple stores swept away a few analysts, too. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster published a research note early Monday boosting his initial forecast for first-day sales to 600,000 to 700,000 — only to quickly follow with a second note admitting he'd jumped the gun.

"We were overly optimistic," he wrote. Munster's original forecast was for 200,000 to 300,000 iPads to be sold on Saturday.

However, Munster wrote that he still expects Apple to sell 1.3 million iPads in the current quarter.

Apple devotees were willing to queue up across the country to be among the first to own an iPad, even if they weren't exactly sure what they'd end up using it for. The models currently on sale connect to the Internet using Wi-Fi; prices start at $499. A second wave of buyers may emerge when Apple starts selling versions that can also get online using cellular networks; those models start at $629.

The total seemed modest given the weeks of hype about the revolutionary nature of Apple's new touch-screen tablet device. Furthermore, the figures included pre-orders that were picked up or delivered Saturday and iPads sent to retail stores such as Best Buy but not necessarily purchased. Apple did not say how many went to such stores.

Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu wrote in a note to investors Monday that he believes a similar pattern will unfold for the iPad.

"When the iPhone was first launched, it was also somewhat of a disappointment," Wu wrote. "But as the iPhone got more refined, with more apps, better software, not to mention better prices," then sales picked up.

Wu had estimated the iPad's sales at 250,000 to 300,000 for the weekend. In the research note, the analyst wrote that manufacturers said Apple was telling them to get ready to ship 10 million iPads in the first 12 months, twice as many as previously expected.

With the iPad in its early days, the iPhone will continue as Apple's star product this year, Broadpoint Amtech analyst Brian Marshall said in a note to investors Monday. Marshall had predicted Apple would sell 525,000 iPads over the Easter weekend, despite some stores being closed for the holiday.

The iPad is "off to a fantastic start," he wrote, but he still expects iPhone sales to top $20 billion this year, eight times his forecast of $2.5 billion for the iPad.

Assuming most of the 300,000 iPads ended up in the hands of consumers Saturday, though, the figure is in line with the number of iPhones that Apple sold when the smart phone made its debut in June 2007. Apple didn't publicize first-day sales at the time, but later earnings reports indicated the company sold about 270,000 iPhones during the first two days the gadget was available.

Apple sold 1.1 million more iPhones over the next three months. The volume has only increased as Apple has released new versions of the phone in a growing number of countries and software developers have created add-on programs, or "apps," that do everything from online banking to mapping bike rides using GPS. In the most recent quarter, Apple sold 8.7 million iPhones.

Once the early excitement settles, Apple needs to convince a broader swath of people to buy if it wants the iPad to follow the iPhone's successful trajectory.

Many companies have tried to sell tablet computers before, but none has caught on with mainstream consumers. Apple's iPad comes at a time when people have even more Internet-connected gadgets — smart phones, laptops, e-book readers, set-top boxes and home broadband connections — and it may need to work harder to persuade people to buy yet another device that serves many of the same purposes.

Apple also said Monday that new iPad owners downloaded more than a million applications and more than 250,000 electronic books from its iTunes store on Saturday.

Shares of Apple, which is based in Cupertino, Calif., rose $2.52 to close at $238.49 Monday.

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Though pranksters and joke-lovers in many countries now gleefully prepare to dupe friends and loved ones on April Fool's Day, no one knows exactly when or why, or even where, this tradition began.

In Scotland, the butts of April Fool's jokes were known as April "Gowks," another name for a cuckoo bird. The origins of the "Kick Me" sign can supposedly be traced back to the Scottish observance of the day.

In more recent times, radio stations, TV programs and Web sites have set up gullible readers and listeners. One of the most notorious jokes was a 1957 hoax BBC documentary of the annual spaghetti harvest in Switzerland, featuring a family plucking strands of the pasta from "spaghetti trees." The Italian favorite was still considered an exotic delicacy in Britain at the time, and many listeners were so fooled they wanted to find out how to get a spaghetti bush of their own.

A giddy spurt of practical joking seems to have coincided with the coming of spring since the time of the Ancient Romans and Celts, who celebrated a festival of mischief-making. The first mentions of an All Fool's Day (as it was formerly called) came in Europe in the Middle Ages.

The most widespread theory of the origin of April Fool's Day is the switch from the old Julian to the Gregorian calendar (now in use) in the late 16th century. Under the Julian calendar, the New Year was celebrated during the week between March 25 and April 1, but under the Gregorian calendar, it was moved to Jan. 1. Those who were not notified of the change, or stubbornly kept to the old tradition, were often mocked and had jokes played on them on or around the old New Year.

In France, this took the form of pranksters sticking fish on the backs of those who celebrated the old custom, earning the victims of the prank the name Poisson d'Avril, or April Fish.

But the theory can't explain why the pranking tradition spread to other countries in Europe that did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until later.

Some trace April Fool's Day back to Roman mythology, particularly the story of Ceres, Goddess of the harvest, and her daughter, Proserpina.

Pluto, God of the Dead, abducted Proserpina and took her to live with him in the underworld. The girl called out to her mother, but Ceres could only hear the echo of her daughter's voice and searched for her in vain.

Such "fool's errands," or wild goose chases, became a popular practical joke in Europe in later centuries.

On April 1, 2007 Internet search engine Google announced their new Gmail Paper service, where users of the free email service could save emails to a paper archive which Google would print out and mail for free. Last year, Google invited people to sign up for a Mars exploration project.

So while you're surfing the web or watching TV today, be wary of what you see and read, or you could end up an April Fool!

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The old Vladimir Putin is back, confronting a terrorist attack in Moscow by using the same kind of coarse and colorful language that helped him win the presidency a decade ago.

The choice of the gutter language recalled Putin's famous threat to "wipe out the Chechen rebels in the outhouse" after they were blamed for a series of apartment building bombings that terrorized Moscow in 1999.

Heightened transportation security remained in effect across the capital and elsewhere. Police with machine guns and dogs patrolled subway entrances.

The attacks signaled to Russians that they are no safer than they were before Putin came to power.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but many speculated that they were retaliation for the recent killings of Islamic militant leaders in the North Caucasus, including one known for training suicide bombers.

Putin used a string of terrorist attacks in 2004 to consolidate his power further. He abolished gubernatorial elections, effectively giving the Kremlin the power to appoint governors, and pushed his liberal critics out of parliament. Since then the political opposition has been fully marginalized.

Capitalizing on the outrage, members of the Kremlin-loyal parliament proposed bringing back the death penalty for terrorism. Russia has imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, but has been reluctant to outlaw it due to broad public support for the death penalty.

Monday's subway bombings, carried out by two women, are the first terrorist attacks in Moscow in six years. They have shaken a city that has been insulated from the violence still raging in the restive southern corner of the country.

Russia observed a day of mourning Tuesday, with flags at half-staff at the Kremlin and across the vast country. Relatives identified the dead at a Moscow morgue, and tearful commuters placed candles at makeshift memorials heaped with carnations inside the two stricken subway stations in the city center.

Putin, as prime minister at the time, sent in overwhelming military force to pound the region into submission and was elected president the following year.

Now in his second stint as prime minister after serving two full terms as president, Putin has an excuse to revert to the tough line that shored up his authority following past terrorist attacks. While welcomed by many Russians, it also is raising fears that civil liberties may be further sacrificed under the pretext of fighting terrorism.

A day after twin suicide bombings in the subway that killed 39 people, the powerful prime minister told Russians that he is certain the masterminds of the attacks would be found. The security services have blamed extremists from the North Caucasus, a predominantly Muslim region in southern Russia that includes Chechnya.

"We know they are lying low, but it is already a matter of pride for the law enforcement agencies to drag them out of the sewer and into broad daylight," Putin said, directing a transportation security meeting that was shown on Russian television Tuesday.

Many opposition leaders and rights activists said they feared the subway bombings would be a convenient excuse for the government to put increased pressure on the opposition, perhaps by cracking down even harder on street protests.

"Our government loves to use such events to act as they want," Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a veteran human rights activist, wrote in her blog. "So this is an excellent opportunity to further limit our constitutional freedoms, pretending they care about our security."

Lidia Yusupova, a Chechen rights activist, was more alarmist.

In discussing the situation Tuesday with his human rights adviser, Ella Pamfilova, Medvedev said improving the standard of living will be more difficult than ridding the region of terrorists.

"It's more difficult to create the right modern conditions for education and conducting business, to fight the clan structure that has evolved in the Caucasus for many centuries, and unmeasurable corruption," Medvedev said.

In his partnership with Putin, Medvedev remains the junior partner and has been assigned the role of modernizer. And he has little to show for his efforts.

Many say the Kremlin can no longer ignore the social and economic problems of its southern fringe.

"The question is whether there will be accomplishments with social development to give people an alternative to blowing themselves up," said Sam Greene, a political analyst with the Carnegie Moscow Center.

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HP is currently looking for a site for its new Inkjet Web Solutions Global Design Center, which is expected to be up and running by early next year, said the company's executive vice-president for its imaging and printing group, Mr Vyomesh Joshi, in an interview with the Straits Times on Tuesday.

Within the centre - HP's only such facility outside the United States - its researchers will look for ways to improve the company's upcoming web-enabled printers, from more intuitive touch-screen menus to allow users to select pictures from online photo galleries, to connecting the printer to networking devices like home wireless routers with fewer clicks.

Meanwhile, HP Insight Remote Support software promises to reduce issue resolution time by 20 per cent with secure remote support for HP servers and storage, including monitoring for hardware failure to avoid problems before they occur.

The servers will be available through HP distributors Avnet, Dicker Data, Ingram Micro and Lynx Technologies. Prices for the new line start at $2499.

AMERICAN tech giant Hewlett-Packard is setting up a new R&D lab in Singapore that will focus on improving the navigation and design of its printers.

HP, which has a 46 per cent market share of the global printer market, will also be hiring experts in industrial design, ergonomics, and materials science to improve the look-and-feel of its printers, so they do not look out-of-place in modern designer living rooms, said Mr Joshi, a member of HP's executive team, who received the Friend of Singapore award from President SR Nathan earlier on Tuesday.

The prestigious award is given out to senior business leaders in recognition of their contributions to Singapore's economic growth.

HP has upgraded its ProLiant server range, with three new models set to hit the market.

The new line includes the ProLiant DL 165 G7, ProLiant DL385 G7 rack-optimised servers, as well as the ProLiant SL 165z G7 scale-out “skinless” server.

The servers deliver a 23:1 consolidation ratio with SMB Opteron 6100 series processors, and HP Thermal Logic technologies to reduce power consumption. HP Insight Control software improves management productivity while reducing operations expenses, while HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) Advanced enables clients to simplify server management and troubleshoot problems from any location.

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A document from the US Patent and Trademark Office, dated March 17, shows the trademark on 'IPAD' has been transferred to Apple from Fujitsu Frontech North America. The development was first uncovered by the blog Patentauthority.com.

The iPad, which will go on sale in the US on April 3, was first announced at a heavily reported event in San Francisco on January 27, before it even owned the product's name.

The US Apple store says that pre-ordered iPads might not ship until April 12, more than a week after the iPad is due to go on sale. Only those who placed orders before March 27 can still expect to receive their iPads on April 3, Apple said.

The Mac maker began taking iPad pre-orders on March 12. At the time, it promised to ship pre-ordered iPads so that they would arrive April 3.

UK customers already have to wait a bit longer before getting their hands on the iPad. The tablet was originally expected to launch in the UK at the start of April, but Apple's online store confirmed earlier this month that it won't ship here until the end of next month.

A similar thing happened when Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007. Shortly after the iPhone was announced in January of that year, Cisco sued Apple over its use of the name. About a month later, the companies announced they had reached an agreement under which both companies could use the name. They said they had agreed to "explore opportunities for interoperability", but didn't disclose any other details of the deal.

Fujitsu Frontech North America, based in Richardson, Texas, is a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate that makes point-of-sale and self-checkout systems for retail stores. In its application for the trademark, it said the first use of the name was for a "hand-held computing device for wireless networking in a retail environment", in January 2002.

The Fujitsu iPad had a 3.5-inch coluor touch screen and cost about $2,000, considerably more than the Apple iPad's starting price of $499. Fujitsu reportedly also had to acquire the iPad trademark from another company, Mag-Tek.

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Rightly or wrongly, the Apple iPad, which hits store shelves in a little over a week, has been linked to the salvation of the media industry. If the iPad succeeds, the logic goes, newspapers and magazines across the globe could have a ticket out of years of slumping newsstand sales and plummeting ad revenue. But today, some tentative details of the first major subscription plan for the Apple iPad were revealed – and not everyone is impressed.

Fast Company's Kit Eaton argues that – in theory – the iPad edition of the Journal should be cheaper than the print edition, which "has to be printed, sorted, wrapped and distributed every time a new copy rolls off the presses – each subscriber's copy then has to make its way to their home, which is a huge organizational effort."

On the other hand, Eaton continues, "the digital edition is merely crafted once in the WSJ's shiny newsroom Macs and then fired into the ether, from where it basically finds its own way to your particular iPad. Surely it costs much less to do this, and thus it should be much cheaper than $18, to tempt more users to buy the darn thing?"

Still running into trouble with Aperture 3, even after the recent Aperture 3.0.1 update? Not to worry, Apple has just posted yet another update for Aperture 3 users.

Aperture 3.0.2 does add one very significant new feature, buried at the very bottom of the release notes: iPad compatibility. This will allow users to import photos from the iPad into Aperture, and to sync photos in their Aperture library with the iPad. There are also a few new minor features, like the return of the ability to navigate through images in the viewer using scrolling, and a display for how much disk space you need to import an existing iPhoto or Aperture library.

 Beyond that, there is a wealth of fixes for general stability and issues. Some of the fixes address lost data and slowdown when importing iPhoto and Aperture 2 libraries. There is a series of fixes to preserve the hierarchy of folders imported into Aperture. The 3.0.2 update also resolves a number of issues with Aperture's new Faces feature, along with issues where presets and image metadata would be missing, incomplete, or fail to be saved.

This patch aims to stop crashes associated with adjustments, both from imported libraries and those applied by Aperture 3 itself. There's also a handy fix for a crash bug associated with emptying Aperture's trash.

Finally, there's a minor update for iMovie 09, called iMovie 8.0.2, which allows iMovie to play nicer with video files stored in an Aperture library.

According to new reports, the Wall Street Journal will charge $17.99 a month for access to an iPad-friendly version of the popular business broadsheet. That's cheaper than a monthly subscription to the print edition of the Journal, which currently costs about $29 a month, but significantly more expensive than plain old online access to the Journal, which will set you back $1.99 a week.

Over at MacWorld, Marco Tabini speculates that the discrepancy between the Web and iPad subscription models could have something to do with content.

"[P]erhaps the iPad version of the Journal will sport some exclusive features that are not available anywhere else," Tabini writes. "Or the final pricing model may include special offers and different subscription options (such as an annual subscription for an even lower rate); or maybe Rupert Murdoch has simply decided that iPad users will be willing to pay a premium to get his publication’s content on their brand new devices."

The Wall Street Journal isn't the only outlet lining up to work with Apple on iPad content. The New York Times has signaled that the iPad will become a major part of its mobile strategy, as have HarperCollins and Hulu, the popular video streaming site. And earlier this month, the Associated Press and Conde Nast, a major magazine publisher, said they will deliver original content to iPad screens.

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Having staked the success of his presidency on the longstanding Democratic dream of universal health care, President Obama finally achieved victory on Sunday night, bringing an end to a yearlong partisan struggle. "This legislation will not fix everything that ails our health care system, but it moves us decisively in the right direction," Obama said shortly after the historic vote. "This is what change looks like." With Democrats chanting the signature line of the Obama presidential campaign - "Yes we can!" - the House voted 219-212 to send a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system to be signed into law. "We tonight will make history for our country and progress for the American people," Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared shortly before the vote. "Today we have the opportunity to complete the great unfinished business of our country."

 As the House debated throughout the day, hundreds of protesters from the Tea Party movement rallied on the Capitol lawn, chanting, "Kill the bill." It was a dead-serious message, but on a glorious spring day, when cherry blossoms were just beginning to appear on the trees, the atmosphere felt more like a carnival - especially compared to the day before, when some protesters had hurled racial epithets at a few African-American members of the House. The crowd was stoked by regular appearances that lawmakers made on a balcony overlooking the protesters. "It's interesting how many faces they recognize," said Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa. Republicans flashed handwritten signs with the word No on them, sending the crowd into rapture.

Democrats also got into the act. Sheila Jackson-Lee, a liberal Democrat from Texas, said she went down among the protesters saying, "God bless America. We're glad you're here." She also flashed two fingers in a mischievous V for victory. The response? "Someone flipped a third finger," she said.

 The bill also promises to rein in health costs by reorienting the practice of medicine, making it more efficient, with health care providers rewarded on how well they treat their patients, rather than how much care they give them. Whether it actually achieves that latter ambition, however, is far more uncertain. (See more about health care.)

In the early years, most Americans will see only minor changes in the health care system. It will almost immediately end some insurance-company practices, such as denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions. And dependent children under the age of 26 would be allowed to remain on their parents' policies if they cannot get health insurance elsewhere. Adults with pre-existing conditions would also be able to buy coverage through expanded high-risk pools.

Beginning in 2014, more far-reaching measures will begin to take effect. States would be required to set up new "exchanges," or insurance marketplaces, that would offer a variety of health care plans for small businesses and individuals who do not get coverage from their employers. Government subsidies would be available to those earning up to 400% of poverty. Employers with 50 or more workers who do not offer coverage would be fined, and for the first time, most people would be required to obtain health coverage - either at work, or by purchasing it on their own - or pay a penalty.

The second bill passed by the House late Sunday will make adjustments to the legislation, such as lowering the impact of an excise tax on high-value insurance plans and stripping out some sweetheart deals like the now infamous cornhusker kickback, using a process known as budget reconciliation. Such changes would be filibuster-proof in the Senate, though that process could still drag on a while if Republicans choose to draw it out with objections and amendments. Even so, it will be an anticlimax to Sunday's historic House vote, which will send the underlying Senate bill to President Obama's desk for signature. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again.")

The Democrats passed the bill without a single Republican vote - and with the knowledge that it may well have ended the political careers of some who voted for it at a time when the public remains deeply divided over the entire endeavor. "If we pass this bill, there will be no turning back," warned minority leader John Boehner. "It will be the last straw for the American people." (See 10 health care reform ads.)

Suspense about the outcome continued until the final hours of the debate. Passage appeared to be assured only after Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak announced in the late afternoon that he and a group of antiabortion Democrats, who had pushed for more restrictive language in the original House bill, had been satisfied that the Senate version would not allow the use of federal funds to pay for the procedure. That only came after President Obama promised to sign an executive order reaffirming that the bill would maintain a "consistency with longstanding restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion." In reality, that executive order was more a symbolic move than an actual concession; the bill's supporters have insisted all along that it does nothing to change the current federal policy, known as the Hyde Amendment, which has been in effect since 1976.

 On the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the President and his team were waiting and working the phones to make sure the final votes were nailed down. There was also the distraction of March Madness to pass the hours. One aide said of Obama: "He's in the West Wing, getting updates, dropping in on staff, and like the rest of America, examining the rubble of his bracket." At one point during the afternoon, the Commander in Chief ordered his health care czar, Nancy-Ann DeParle, to take a break and go out for a run.

With passage of the legislation, Obama has achieved the signature domestic goal of his presidency, and the most sweeping piece of social legislation since the 1960s Great Society initiatives that saw the passage of Medicare and Medicaid. Universal coverage is a goal that has eluded Presidents going at least as far back as Teddy Roosevelt, and Obama's bill comes as close to that target as anyone has. The bill would provide health coverage to an estimated 32 million additional Americans, meaning 95% of those who are legally in this country would have health insurance, up from 83% today. 

 All of this would be paid for in two ways: By reducing spending on Medicare by hundreds of billions, and by imposing a set of new taxes, including a 40% levy on certain high-priced insurance policies.

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Toshiba Corp. (6502.TO) said Tuesday it will boost its NAND flash memory production capacity by building a fifth manufacturing facility at its Yokkaichi plant in central Japan.

Construction of the new facility is scheduled to begin in July and completed in the spring of 2011. Toshiba said the amount it will invest in the facility, its production capacity and the detailed production plan will be decided at a later date.

Demand for NAND flash-memory chips is brisk because the technology has become the de facto standard for storing data in products such as digital cameras. NAND memory chips are also increasingly being used in products such as laptops and video recorders.

An unsourced report in Japan's Nikkei business daily had said the new reactor -- known as the Traveling-Wave Reactor -- would be able operate for up to 100 years without refueling, compared to current light-water reactors, which need to refuel every few years.

The Japanese conglomerate would work with Gates' company TerraPower, not with Microsoft /quotes/comstock/15*!msft/quotes/nls/msft (MSFT 29.60, +0.01, +0.03%) , providing TerraPower with "the know-how to manufacture nuclear power equipment," the report said.

Toshiba Corp. will spend 350 billion yen ($3.9 billion) to build a semiconductor plant in Mie, western Japan, public broadcaster NHK reported, without saying where it obtained the information. Construction will begin as early as July.

Toshiba, which planned to build the factory last year, has been postponing construction after chip demand fell. The plant will produce flash memory chips used in mobile phones and cameras, the report said.

Following the news, Toshiba spokesman Keisuke Ohmori was quoted by Dow Jones Newswires as confirming that talks for a Toshiba-TerraPower deal had started, although he added that the negotiations were still at an early stage.

Toshiba is already seeking U.S. approval for an "ultracompact reactor" that can go 30 years without refueling and hopes to begin construction as early as 2014, according to the Nikkei report.

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Dell has announced its latest hardware introductions aimed at SMBs. Last week the company rolled out a disk-based data backup and recovery solution in a single server: the PowerVault DL2100 Powered by Symantec Backup Exec 2010, The company also continues to update its Vostro family of small-business notebook computers, adding the Vostro 3000 series featuring the latest mobile Intel processors in a thin-and-light design,states a Small Business Comumting report.

The solution features automated setup and disk provisioning to expedite the backup process, and Dell claims the PowerVault DL2100 performs around percent faster than tape backup systems—an important consideration if your backups to tape have begun to exceed the middle-of-the-night backup window. The PowerVault DL2100 also offers optional deduplication, whereby duplicate data in a scheduled backup is deleted, leaving only one copy of the data to be stored or transmitted.

The plant opened in 2005. Dell was promised more than $300 million in state and local incentives to open the plant manufacturing desktop computers.

In exchange, the Texas-based company was required to invest $100 million, create 1,700 jobs by September 2010 and maintain those jobs for 10 more years. If those terms weren't met, the company would forfeit the incentive package.

Dell said it would comply with the terms of the incentive agreement.

“Many small business owners still live in a world of denial when it comes to backup,” said Brett Roscoe, Senior Product Manager for storage solutions at Dell. “They know they need a solution, but they don’t have the bandwidth or expertise to build a backup-to-disk system.” In fact, a recent survey conducted by Symantec found that the average SMB backs up only 60 percent of its company and customer data, and that these backups occur infrequently.

Dell Inc. announced at the end of last year it would be closing its North Carolina computer manufacturing plant, putting more than 900 people out of work.

However, the Winston Salem Journal reports the company will keep its Forsyth County plant open until the end of October, because of increasing demand for desktop computers.

It's the third time Dell has extended its deadline for closing the plant.

The company had planned to shut down in January, putting more than 900 people out of work. It then extended the deadline to April, now July.

Currently, about 500 workers are still at the plant.

In November, city and county officials gave Dell a discount for repaying more than $26 million in local incentives early.

The PowerVault DL2100 takes care of the heavy lifting, combining the server hardware and operating system, backup software, and up to 2 terabytes (TB) of internal storage in rack-mount appliance ideal for backing up your company’s application, e-mail, Web and other servers. In addition to the peace of mind, the main draw for small business owners may be the PowerVault DL2100’s wizard-driven setup. “The system can be up and running in 18 minutes,” claimed Roscoe. “If you can set up a Windows server, you can do this.”

 The company had planned to close in January, putting 905 people out of work. It then extended the deadline to April 30 and then July 31. About 500 employees remain.

The change of heart has cost Dell. After it announced the closing, the company paid back about $26.5 million in local incentive money, the newspaper reported. Under terms of the agreement, it would have been able to keep about half of that by making it to the end of October, according to reporter Richard.

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Asian stock markets were mostly lower Thursday while the euro weakened after Greece said it might seek international assistance to resolve its debt crisis.

In Japan, the Nikkei 225 stock average was down 102.95 points, or 1 percent, to 10,744.03. South Korea's Kospi index lost 0.5 percent.

Elsewhere, Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.2 percent to 21,345.74 and Shanghai's main index was off by 0.3 percent.

Markets in Australia, Taiwan and Thailand rose. India's market shed 0.1 percent.

The euro slipped against the dollar a day after Greece, struggling to meet the country's massive debt obligations, said it could seeking funding from the International Monetary Fund if other European countries didn't provide support next week.

European Union nations have been slow to come to Greece's immediate aid, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested this week the euro zone should be able to eject countries that persistently disobey the region's budget rules.

The largely muted trade came after Wall Street advanced for the seventh straight day. Oil prices fell to near $82 a barrel.

In currencies, the euro slid to $1.3673 from $1.3733. The dollar was off at 90.20 yen.

Oil prices fell toward $82 a barrel Thursday in Asia, paring two days of gains that were fueled by signs U.S. crude demand may be improving.

Global markets jumped Wednesday after U.S. and Japanese central banks signaled plans to maintain low borrowing costs to help foster economic growth.

Benchmark crude for April delivery was down 65 cents to $82.29. The contract rose $1.23 overnight.

Overnight in the U.S., the Dow rose 47.69, or 0.5 percent, to 10,733.67. It is at its highest point since Oct. 1, 2008. The seven-day streak of gains is its longest since August.

The S&P 500 index rose 6.75, or 0.6 percent, to 1,166.21. That's the highest close since Sept. 30, 2008.

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For Tiger Woods, this figures to be a Masters like no other.

Woods said Tuesday he will end more than four months of seclusion and play at Augusta National in three weeks, shielded by the most secure environment in golf as he competes for the first time since a sex scandal shattered his image.

The Associated Press first reported last Thursday that Woods would not play until the Masters, despite other published stories that he would return this week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando. There has been so much buzz that when Finchem held a teleconference Monday on an undisclosed topic, the call was loaded with media suspecting an announcement on Woods' return. Instead, it was to announce a new title sponsor.

Small wonder that CBS Sports president Sean McManus said last week of Woods' return to golf: "My only prediction is when he comes back, it will be, other than the Obama inauguration, one of if not the biggest media spectacle in recent memory."

ESPN will televise the first two rounds of the Masters, and CBS Sports has the weekend. The highest TV rating for the Masters in the cable era was a 14.1 on the Sunday in 1997 when Woods, then 21, became the tournament's youngest champion with a record 12-shot victory.

Already the most popular figure in golf with his 82 worldwide victories and 14 in majors — four of them at the Masters — Woods returns as a disgraced star who will be under the greatest scrutiny of his career.

"We're all looking forward to having him back. We want him playing," Jim Furyk said. "I'm sure we're also looking forward to everything being business as usual. And it's going to take awhile. We know that."

Woods last competed Nov. 15 when he won the Australian Masters in Melbourne. Twelve days later, he rammed his SUV over a fire hydrant and into a tree outside his Florida home, an accident that set off sordid tales of extramarital affairs. Woods announced Dec. 11 that he would take an indefinite break to try to save his marriage.

"The major championships have always been a special focus in my career and, as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be, even though it's been a while since I last played," Woods said.

"The Masters is where I won my first major and I view this tournament with great respect," Woods said in a statement. "After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta."

The Masters begins April 8.

No other major championship attracts such a large television audience, and that's under normal circumstances.

Woods twice has gone to a major without having competed after a long layoff — nine weeks. He missed the cut at Winged Foot for the 2006 U.S. Open after his father died, and he won the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines while playing on a shattered left knee that kept him out the rest of the year.

"It's obviously great for golf that he's back," three-time major champion Padraig Harrington said. "It shows the commitment he has to his family. If he came back earlier, that would give him a better chance at Augusta. He would have been putting golf first. Putting his family first by not warming up for Augusta, it's a good statement."

Woods has been the biggest draw at the Masters since that victory in 1997. That likely won't compare to this year.

His world came crashing down Nov. 27 when he fled his house in the middle of the night, an incident still filled with questions that Woods might never answer: Where was he going? What caused him to hit the tree? What injuries sent him to the hospital? And how could the world's most famous athlete keep secret so many affairs?

The Masters — "A tradition like no other" is a longtime CBS promo — has restrictions like no other major. Media credentials are limited even in normal circumstances, and the club has tight control over who gets in. Some fans with season badges risk losing them forever for violating rules, such as being caught with a cell phone or a camera. Among the rules: No running.

Most players expect Woods to be heckled, although not as much — if any — at the Masters.

"That's why Augusta makes such good sense," Furyk said. "There's less of that than anywhere else. Everyone is afraid to lose their ticket. The etiquette and behavior is far better than anywhere else because of the fear factor."

Still to be determined is the state of his game.

Woods left for a Mississippi clinic for therapy on Dec. 31 — the day after his 34th birthday — and returned Feb. 11 to prepare for his first public appearance at the TPC Sawgrass when he apologized for his behavior and confessed to extramarital affairs. He took no questions.

This will be the first time Woods has missed Bay Hill as a professional, the only regular PGA Tour event he has played every year. Palmer told The Golf Channel that Woods called to apologize for not being there.

"He sounded good. He had some zip in his voice," Palmer said. "He knows what he wants to do with his life and the way he's going to handle it, and I guess we're going to give him that respect. I would think for Tiger it's going to be tough. It's going to be something that's going to take him a little time to get used to."

Palmer said Woods told him he didn't feel his game "was up to speed to start playing this early."

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Sony and the estate of late music legend Michael Jackson have signed a record-breaking 250-million-dollar deal for distribution rights through 2017, US media said Tuesday.

Sony's contract "exceeds all previous industry benchmarks," entertainment lawyer John Branca, one of the estate's executors, told the New York Times.

The closest comparable contracts would be rapper Jay-Z's 2008 accord with Live Nation worth 150 million dollars for recordings and concerts.

Since his death on June 25 last year, Sony has sold some 31 million Jackson albums worldwide and his estate, by the first anniversary of his death, is expected to have made 250 million dollars from the sale of music, merchandise and tickets to the posthumous concert movie "This Is It," the Journal said.

Jackson died at his rented mansion in Los Angeles after an overdose of powerful prescription drugs, as he was preparing to perform a series of comeback concerts in London.

The blockbuster deal involving as many as 10 new Jackson projects may include computer video games as well as music and film releases, the Los Angeles Times said.

Described by Sony and Jackson's estate as the most lucrative music contract on record, the deal would guarantee the late singer's heirs at least 200 million dollars, the Wall Street Journal said.

The star's doctor Conrad Murray last month pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the sudden death, but has admitted administering the drugs to the singer.

The first recording under the new contract, according to the New York Times, will be the soundtrack for "This Is It" -- which showed Jackson rehearsing his comeback concerts in the weeks leading up to his death -- and by November a new album of unreleased recordings.

The deal would go a long way to easing burdens left behind by Jackson, whose lavish lifestyle and spending sprees marked up hundreds of millions of dollars of debt.

After his death, a Los Angeles court named Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, 79, guardian of his three children, Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11 and Prince Michael II, 7, as well as of his estate, which includes his Neverland ranch and rights he held to songs by The Beatles.

"The audio rights span across different projects," said Rob Stringer, chairman of the US label Columbia Epic, a division of Sony, reported the Times.

"There may be theater. There may be films and movies. There may be computer games -- or multimedia platforms that I don't know about today that will happen in 2015."

Branca told the LA Times that a look at other high-earning careers held by dead music legends indicated the value of Jackson's brand.

"If you look at Elvis and the Beatles, and how their brands are thriving, they only hint at what the future holds for Michael," Branca said.

In October, Forbes Magazine named Jackson as number three in its annual Top-Earning Dead Celebrities list, earning 90 million dollars in the months after his death.

Fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent topped the list with 350 million dollars in posthumous earnings, while Elvis Presley came just behind Jackson with 55 million dollars.

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