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This week we’ll talk about the remaining 91 CES videos. Set up a special feed for CES 2010 and it’s now up on Zune. Chrome extentions are now installed. Firefox is loosing my interest.

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I – S.U.N. (Straight Up News)
Chrome on Greasemonkey
- What they heck happened with my Tabs?
Browser Wars Updated
New Nigerian Email Scam
Doppleganger Facebook Violates Terms of Service
MPAA vs. ISP on Grandmas Blog
Social Networking SPAM
Will these Apple Fanboys EVER Stop with Rumors?
Book Pricing Wars?
iTunes 9.0.3 available
Flash is old. HTML5 is the New Black
NASA Live Stream Beats out Puppies
Drum Set for Rock Band
Robot Groundhog for PETA Sake

Backchannel – YurBuds
Poll – Should PETA have their way and replace Punxsutawney Phil with a Robot?

II
AP Renews Yahoo Deal – Google Next?
ACER Staying on Course
Wikileaks Shuts Down
More on the Chinese – Google War
What Happens to those 3D Glasses?

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Torrents can be really helpful, however, they can also be used for passing of copyrighted material. MP3’s movies, programs, all plague torrent sites. Some with keygens to break the program keys. Others with malware installed to steal data from your computer.

Some say to fight this, Torrents need to be shut down. Others say that controlled torrents are needed for open source documents. It’s a big battle back and forth.

One way to combat is to go after the Torrents themselves. Pirate Bay, for example. However, if a Torrent lives in another country, the legal battle gets harder.

TorrentSpy was a bittorrent indexing service. They showed people where the .torrent files lived. the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed a $110 million dollar lawsuit for infringement of files. US District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper agreed with the MPAA and Torrentspy was ordered to pay up, along with a perminant injunction on the site.

There is a lot of good that can come from a torrent site. If we could curb the illegal action and make safe areas so you can download copyright free or Creative Commons no-deriv music, movies and documents, the torrent would be better embraced.

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eMule

OLPC

exploding Cell Phones

First Excel Macrovirus

Atari Buyout

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