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Google Chrome OS made official. Some details follow. Win 7 sales booming. Sony to use Firefox on PS3. Palm phones go on sale. NSA backdoor? They say no. Al Gore in the news. This is a beaut. Best Buy starts Black Friday already. Dell Profits drop. Brought to you by E-Harmony. Check it out at www.eharmony.com using the code EHTECH for a fat discount.

Microsoft giving away beta copies of Office 2010. Worth a look. Also IE 9 floating around. Judge says Verizon ads OK. IBM makes a computer that simulates a cat's brain! Meow. Google Chrome coming out and to be announced tomorrow. EU Ombudsman backing Intel. Call of Duty breaking all records. Controversy over new OED words. Brought to you by Squarespace. Check it out at www.squarespace.com using the code TECH for a fat discount.

New idea: YouTube direct opens. You'll love this story. US and China to do a space joint venture. Dell goes green with bamboo. Where does this bamboo come from? We are entering the age of cyberwar? Oh no! China scams Microsoft over intellectual property. Huh? Wal-Mart dumping all sorts of things in a massive sale. HP goes thin-client.   Brought to you by Squarespace. Check it out at www.squarespace.com using the code TECH for a fat discount.

Android all over the news with contradictory stories. MSFT at risk. Nokia and Palm deal creating a stir even though there is no deal yet. Eqypt first country to go Arabic with web domains. 1/2 of Teens talk on phone while driving. 1/2 of teens apparently lie. Cray has fastest supercomputer again. Russia banning games. Semiconductors to lead us to the promised land.   Brought to you by Squarespace. Check it out at www.squarespace.com using the code TECH for a fat discount.

NASA sees significant quantities of water on the moon. Let's go swimming! Dell's smart phone in the news. Google to release Chrome OS soon. Final Fantasy not final. Brazil to get rich doing nothing. Google cranks up Gizmo5. YouTube goes 1080p HD? Why? Palm to be bought by Nokia? Banned Xbox may get fixed by modders. Why is Qualcomm getting into the computer business. MSFT will put ads on the Win7 desktop! What!?!?   Brought to you by e-Harmony. Check it out at www.eharmony.com using the code EHTECH for a fat discount.

Intel and AMD become friends. Huh? Why? Mars Rover stuck in the sand. Call of Duty sells $310M in 24hours. Apple to open 40-50 new stores. Bugatti in the lake! Lenovo and ATT&T partner up for Netbooks. XP beats Win7 for battery life. MSFT executive in the doghouse. Xbox360 ban is permanent. Show brought to you by e-Harmony. Check it out at www.eharmony.com using the code EHTECH for a fat discount.

HP Buys 3Com! Bing seen as challenger. Why? I'll tell you why. Why does PCWorld slam Google? Microsoft catches and band Xbox live cheaters. Videophone about to actually catch on? I doubt it. Google latitude is creepy. We talk about the Motorola Droid on Cranky Geeks. New Firefox is fast they say. AMD and Intel making friends. Facebooks says it was not hijacked because of flaw. New Matrox card sounds great. Show brought to you by e-Harmony. Check it out at www.eharmony.com using the code EHTECH for a fat discount.

Yahoo, Microsoft and Google going to put out free Wi-Fi hotspots for Christmas. Google's doing it right. New Snow Leopard screws over some users. Kindle for the PC released by Amazon. LinkedIn to Tweet. Facebook groups hijacked. New OS from Samsung called Bada. Yahoo banned. Welcome to the club. Droid phones not that hot. Show brought to you by Squarespace. Check it out at www.squarespace.com using the code TECH for a fat discount.

Google acquires Admob and Gizmo5. Nokia charger dangerous and being recalled. Firefox is five. I think it is bogus. Nook is in heavy demand. Droid phone having crappy battery life. iPhone worm floating around. Chipmakers doing well as predicted. Radio Shack to sell the iPhone. EU on the Oracle-Sun case. Show brought to you by eHarmony. Check it out at www.eharmony.com using the code EHTECH for a fat discount.

Verizon iPhone release coming in 2010. Fortune mag has a bunch of odd articles about Microsoft. I comment on them. Mein Kampf approved by App store. SSD's now bricking up. Blamed on firmware. The Sun is in trouble with the EU now. Intuit-online killed. Flash once again under attack. Cell phone inventor does not like the current direction of the business. Software patents under attack. Show brought to you by eHarmony. Check it out at www.eharmony.com using the code EHTECH for a fat discount.

A new Verizon HTC Google phone just out. Space elevator still in the news? Why? Steve Jobs CEO of the decade! Sez who? Microsoft cuts more jobs. Pew Research reports online use does not cause social isolation. Mickey Mouse to become a rat. Microsoft tablet to be called the Courier? Windows sales killing in Japan. Viruses work great on Win 7. Cisco likes sales. EU does the Internet.   Show brought to you by eHarmony. Check it out at www.eharmony.com using the code EHTECH for a fat discount.

Another MSN redesign comes along. It never ends. Verizon sued over "there's a Map for that" ad. A Twitter-only phone. iPhone FAIL in China. Best Buy video downloads means the death of DVD, or not? Cable modem hacker indicted. nVidia doing a cpu? Sony-Ericsson doing an Android?

iPhone gets tepid reception in China. Look for cheap clone. Spammer sued for a ton more money that he does not have. Ares rocket chute fails. Twitter gives LIST to everyone. Google complaining about phone bill. I explain. Street view to be improved. Why? Girl sue school over Facebook punishment. Raindrop unified messaging. How about unifying it yourself? Nokia N-Gage is dead. Episode brought to you by www.squarespace.com use code TECH.

Moto rebound? The Droid is a killer. Sony brick overheating. Big Screen DSi. The Aino phone coming. Will MSFT-Yahoo deal fall apart? Another Internet birthday? How many are there? People using upgrade of Win7 and tricking machine. MSFT not pleased. Show brought to you by Thrifty and Dollar Car Rental at http://tech5.thrifty.com. Use the code word TECH5.

Google voice expands capability. I like Google voice. Win 7 mis-priced? Or not?  Endless re-boot problem not resolved. New Eclair SDK  a tasty treat. iPhone now number two smartphone. Telecom industry wants a bail out? LA has adopted Gmail for 30,000 government workers. IBM doing big stock buyback. Intel says 2010 going to be big. Show brought to you by squarespace at www.squarespace.com. Use the code word TECH.