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During CES Unveiled, we saw a lot of cool things. We also saw some strange items, too. Take this short clip, for example. The company – Hannspree – decided to stuff (no pun intended) an LCD monitor into a Polar Bear. You can watch movies from the Belly of the Bear, or get a cool Giraffe in which to view all your digital photos. Pretty cool little device for kids – and certain adults. You can also get an Elephant, or Panda in 8″ DPF.

Hannspree makes a lot of other devices with design in mind. But this short video shows the Polar Bear and the Apple.

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2008 – After a long court battle with the Santa Cruz Operations (SCO) group, a judge rules that Novell is the owner of UNIX and UNIXWare copyrights. In 2003 – just after SCO changed their name from Caldera – had made a claim that the SCO IP was incorporated into Linux and that they should get a cut from each copy sold. Novell states that they own the code to UNIX and therefore this claim was not valid. The battle went on, and still goes on to this day, with SCO group dwindled down to a shell (no pun intended). Part of the rulings on this case have been reversed since.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• BadTrans worm is released
• AOL acquires Netscape Communications
• Nolan Bushnell patents the Pong controller

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We celebrate Eyebrow day as today Marx (pun intended) Groucho’s birthday. He was born in 1890 and died 3 days after Elvis.

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Here are your 5 tech things you should know for this week:

• Rocky Mountain Bank Gmail snafu
• Michael Tchao and the Apple Tablet rumor
• Warner Music and YouTube
• Security Essentials
• LightPeak

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