• Google vrs China. The New York Times looks at this new front in the ongoing battle between our current version of democracy and whatever that cracked up system is they’re using in China.
• Everyone wants to like Google’s Nexus One but once again the iPhone seems to win out, this time because if their app store.
• The Wii is to stream Netflix in the near future. Does anyone really care?
• Intel messed up big time by leaking what looks like the next big update to the MacBook.
• If news agencies start charging for their content…looks like wingnut, opinionated bloggers (not us of course!) will win out.
• If the electric car is dead then Detroit is starting to look like a ghost town.
• iPhone 4G with improved camera by June?
• Defriended? Track who defriends you on Facebook!
• The Amazon.com of weed?

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• Oh Maggie Gallager and friends—It’s Facebook, not the gays, that are ruining heterosexual marriages!
• Netbooks to get smaller and more energy efficient staring in the first few weeks of 2010…but will they get quicker?.
• Are HP webcams racist?
• Of course you know texting while driving isn’t so safe but by clicking here you’ll find out exactly how unsafe it can be according to a new study.
• Hulu once outdated the traditional search by adding site-wide tags, which made it very easy to find information. And now again this video content site’s platform is adding “caption search”, which lets users search for keywords within the closed captions for videos of TV shows on the site.
• What was up with the two blackouts from Blackberry this week?
• David vrs Goliath 2009.
• Let’s talk about sexting baby, lets talk about you and me…

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• So what’s the deal with that Google phone anyway?
• Facebook vrs The Electronic Privacy Information Center + 9 ways to make your profile less public.
• If you sext or send any other sort of non-work related text message from a phone paid for by your employer, do they have the right to punish you?
• 3D on Blu-Ray is movin’ on up! More! Are 3-D displays coming to Apple in the near future?
• Um..we really have no comment about this new app that lets you tell the world where you’ve…ah hell, just click here.
• Is the iPhone the Army’s next secret weapon?
• McDonald’s to offer free Wifi in most of its locations by the end of 2010.
• Verizon started offering free Wifi this week too! Click here to see if you’re one of the lucky ones.
• Live in the countryside? Can’t get the net? Vice President Joe Biden just unveiled a $182 federal project as part of the stimulus to bring you some online love.
• Christmas movie rental list? CNN’s got a list of the 9 worst (meaning awesomely bad) techy movies of all time.

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• The cell phone - brain tumor rumor lives!
• Got a latin lover? There’s an app for that. Jibbigo will translate your speech in real time from English into Spanish (and vice versa).
• 7 iPhone apps you may want by October 31st.
• Wii is about to get Netflixy with it!
• Creepy! Adult Care Bear and Balloon Boy among Google’s top Halloween searches.
• Midlife crisis! The internet turned 40 this week.
• Get your Asus some USB 3.0! Asus has introduced a motherboard with on-board support for SuperSpeed USB, with up to 10 times the data-transfer rate of its predecessor.
• Verizon’s venture into Android land seems to be paying off.
• Considering a career in spamming on Facebook? Got $711 million?
• Apple TV turns 3.0. Does anyone out there care?

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• Could super-sizing your LDC/Plasma screen be against the law in California pretty soon?
• The Blackberry Story 2 rears its head…with wifi support!
• Windows 7 and Family Guy to join forces on November 8th.
• The Facebook poke that sent someone to jail.
• What does Michael Dell, the founder of Dell, have against netbooks?
• Twitter is officially more annoying than Facebook and you have junkmail to thank for it.
• A gigantic grizzly bear about to eat you? There’s a phone for that.
• You can wine about Twitter all you want because now they are wining back.
• Polaroid is back!

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• Google Android is coming atcha!
• Got a buggy iPhone? Read this.
• Before Barnes & Noble goes the way of Blockbuster…it’ll release its own ebook reader.
• Over one billion served…a day.
• Having trouble with your facebook account? Looks like the team at facebook are the ones with the big problem.
• Blackberry loves bars almost as much as we do.
• Sony Vaio goes on a diet and gives us the world’s lightest laptop.

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• Facebook goes on a diet for those with slow connections.
• Here’s one cliq you won’t want to be left out of.
• Will Ben & Jerry’s release Hubble, Hubble ice cream now? Cool!
• Courtney’s got no love for Guitar Hero.
• The 411 on the big ‘ol Apple Conference.

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• That Hussy! Research in Motion Ltd. Tuesday unveiled the BlackBerry Tour smart phone for Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp., breaking its pattern of releasing devices with an exclusive wireless carrier partner.
• A Norwegian firm has created technology that allows a Web browser to also function as a Web server, allowing individuals to share their files or communicate with others directly from their own computers.
• Facebook wins!

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• With all the jubulee surrounding the new iPhone 3GS, you may have missed the announcement of the Snow Leopard OS that will provide “first-class support for Microsoft Exchange users,” in turn making Apples more alluring to current Windows users.
• The Webby Awards got Bar-Mitzvah’d this year (their 13th)! Check out the winners and losers here!
• Apparently it is all too easy to set up a fake celebrity Twitter account and Twitter is about to do something about it.

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• Applications continue their take over of the world! Facebook announces that they are open to third party applications.
• A 500GB disc isn’t that far away says GE! They’ve demonstrated a new holographic storage disc with the capacity to hold as much info as 100 DVDs!
• T-Mobile is updating the Google Android! Improvements will include onscreen keyboard, more home screen widgets, video recording and stereo bluetooth.

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