So how did comedian Jerry Seinfeld take to hurtling down a wire from a great height at the Cannes Film Festival, where he’s promoting his animated film, “Bee Movie”? It wasn’t so bad in practice, but… here Seinfeld’s reaction here. You can find the flight of Seinfeld the bumble bee on video here.

Correspondent Bob Tourtellotte, covering the festival, joined reporters interviewing Seinfeld after the flight. Here are some of his comments.

Seinfeld on Seinfeld; he was asked whether he’d come back to television here

Seinfeld on comedians; he was asked who he likes from the “golden age” here 

Seinfeld on what’s left to do to wrap his new film here.

Finnish company Golla makes mobile phone bags. Many, many mobile phone bags.

(Photo: Niclas Mika)

As we reported, the race between competing formats for future DVDs appears to be wide open. Judging by this photo of a Sony Blu-ray player on display at CeBIT however, if anyone can come up with an HD DVD player that consumers can actually touch then that format may have a leg up.

(Photo: Niclas Mika)

The Samsung Q1 Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) which was revealed with the Microsoft ‘Origami’ project.

Christian Morales (left), Vice President Sales and Marketing Group, General Manager Europe, Middle East and Africa for Intel, and Bill Mitchell, a vice president at Microsoft, holding the first Ultra Portable Personal Computers, or UMPCs.

Photo taken with Sony Cybershot. Reuters/Lucas van Grinsven

Reuters Reporters Matt Cowan and Lucas van Grinsven report on Origami as the story unfolds at CeBIT.

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Stay tuned to this link this week as Reuters correspondents blog the annual CeBIT technology fair live from freezing Hanover Germany.

CeBIT, which runs from March 9-15, is the world’s biggest telecoms and electronics fair. Now in its 20th year, CeBIT expects to attract more than 6,000 exhibitors and around half a million visitors this year, about the same number as in 2005.

One of the eagerly awaited announcements at this year’s CeBIT will be the unveiling of Microsoft’s mysterious Origami device, which has been teased for weeks on a website registered by the company (www.origamiproject.com).

One of the most popular topics at this year’s 3SM World Congress, the world’s largest wireless trade show, is whether new competitors for the mobile email market will succeed in winning a significant percentage of the business that is most associated with the Blackberry.

Research In Motion, which makes the Blackberry, says it will remain the standard. The CEO of RIM and Microsoft’s marketing manager spoke to Reuters’ Matt Cowan at the conference in Barcelona.

Reuters’ correspondent Matt Cowan reports from a camera phone from the floor of the world’s largest mobile phone trade fair - The 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona.

 Nokia and Sanyo Electric Co. on Tuesday said they plan to form a joint venture to develop and make mobile phones for the CDMA standard, Yukari Iwatani Kane and Nathan Layne report from Tokyo. ”You could almost characterize it as a partnership of two weaknesses,” said Nick Ingelbrecht, an Australia-based analyst for Gartner.

The JV is likely to be located in California and Japan and will make phones for the dominant 3G telecoms service in the U.S. and parts of Asia, Dan Sloan reports in video.