The Nielsen Co. says Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony was seen by 16.8 million TV viewers. It beat all network competition in its time period but dipped slightly from last year’s audience for the film and TV awards show. According to time zone-adjusted Nielsen “fast national” figures released Monday, the Globes finished within 1 percent of the 17 million viewers who tuned in to the 2011 broadcast.

Both Apple and Samsung are reportedly interested in a new hi-tech spray that makes smartphones waterproof – and Apple could even include the coating in its upcoming iPhone 5, rumoured to be due this summer. The new ‘nanotech’ spray coating  is applied to the circuitry inside phones and lets you dunk phones entirely underwater, and still takes calls.Up to a million phones are water-damaged every year worldwide.

Wikipedia will black out its website on Wednesday to protest anti-piracy legislation under consideration in Congress. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced on Twitter today the popular community-based online encyclopedia would shut down its English versions for a full 24 hours. A link to the formal announcement confirmed the decision after 1,800 Wikipedians discussed what action to take against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECTIP (PIPA). Wales said in a statement: ‘Today Wikipedians from around the world have spoken about their opposition to this destructive legislation. This is an extraordinary action for our community to take – and while we regret having to prevent the world from having access to Wikipedia for even a second, we simply cannot ignore the fact that SOPA and PIPA endanger free speech both in the United States and abroad, and set a frightening precedent of Internet censorship for the world.’ Mail Online

El boxeador filipino, Manny Pacquiao, aceptó el reto lanzado por Floyd Mayweather Jr y aseguró que quiere pelear contra él, aunque, advirtió, aún faltan algunos detalles por resolver. “Quiero enfrentarme a él. Es el combate que todo el mundo quiere”, declaró el campeón filipino en conferencia de prensa, en la que lo acompañó su promotor, Bob Arum. El ‘Pacman’ explicó que son detalles los que tienen que resolverse para que se dé la pelea, pues ‘Money’ Mayweather pide una suma de dinero alta, misma que tiene que garantizarse para poder combatir. “Mayweather quiere una bolsa de dinero que le garantice, entonces debe encontrar un promotor que se la pueda dar. Yo no tengo problemas en ese aspecto, pues tengo un promotor que me garantiza la mía”, agregó. “Si obtiene esa garantía, entonces compartiremos en partes iguales”. Por su parte, el promotor, Bob Arum, aseguró que espera que el combate se efectúe en mayo, para que Mayweather no tenga problemas con la sentencia a prisión que tendrá que cumplir en junio durante 90 días. “La bola está en el campo de Mayweather”, concluyó Arum

Che Guevara, the famous Argentinian-born revolutionary and military theorist, wore many hats – including that of physician, author, and guerrilla leader. But he almost certainly never wore one with a Mercedes-Benz logo. The high-end car company, known for its impeccable – and pricey – motor vehicles, used the late leader to promote a new car-sharing program, much to the horror of Cuban activists and political conservatives. During an annual Consumer Electronics Show, the company’s chairman Dieter Zetsche said some colleagues ‘still think that car-sharing borders on communism.‘But if that’s the case, viva la revolucion,’ he said. He was referring to CarTogether, a new initiative proposed by Mercedes-Benz that allows like-minded strangers to find passengers with whom to carpool. During the pitch, the famous Alberto Korda photo of Guevara was proximately displayed – but on his beret was the logo of the luxury car brand, msnbc.com reports. Out of anger, several anti-Castro activists launched petitions against Mercedes. Cuban-American Ernesto Ariel Suarez launched a Facebook page that says: ‘Tell Mercedes-Benz that it is NOT OK to use the image of a mass murderer.’The Heritage Foundation, a conservative political group based out of Washington, wrote a post entitled ‘Mercedes-Benz Uses Communist Madmen Che Guevara to Sell Luxury Cars.’Mercedes-Benz’s parent company Daimler AG offered an apology for using the altered image after outrage over the use of the revolutionary’s likeness, saying the image was ‘one of many images and videos in the presentation.’ Mail Online