• SXSW killed the news.
• FCC wants your broadband to be 25X faster than it is now. Good!
• Microsoft Phone 7 in the news. Where is the Zune phone?
• Twitter expands service.
• Apple wants you to pay $107 for an iPad battery.
• 10 Dotcoms that are dot-gone.
• Dell sues LCD makers.

• Sony shows its new motion controller.
• Google maps for biking released. Bikers take heed.
• Best Buy should have 3D-TV at a store near you soon.
• IPCC report folks are leaving the errors in the report.
• MSFT Bing creeps up another inch on Google.
• MySpace being overhauled.
• Looks like the .xxx TLD is back in play.
• Facebook and Twitter introducing location-based feature.
• ARM Ltd. says 50 iPad clones to hit market this year.
• Too many Final Fantasies?

• Microsoft fixing bugs, says there is a zero day bug on IE about to hit. RUN!
• My thoughts on 3D TV.
• HP says it has a killer app for its tablet.
• Google translation services goes for the voice.
• NASA worried about Obama’s plans.
• Windows 7 SP1 coming out later this year.
• Amazon Kindle browser showing up.
• Filemaker 11 comes out.

• No tethering between iPhone and iPad. Why not?
• Motorola Backflip getting bad reviews.
• Fake Core i7 chips appear to be floating around.
• Panasonic and Best Buy to push 3D TV sets.
• Apple stores now axing repurposed Apps.
• Energizer Trojan infecting machines for 3 years. How did it get by everyone.
• Cisco quits Wi-Max radio business.
• ZDnet thinks netbooks stink.

• Apple delays launch of iPad.
• Google buys DocVerse to jam-up Microsoft.
• New Windows Phone is nice they all say.
• Ballmer hints at new and more X-Box form factors.
• Tivo shares skyrocket.
• New Sony gadgets arriving all aimed at Apple.
• Photoshop for Android appears. Who needs it?

• Earth knocked silly by earthquake.
• Apple suing HTC over patents.
• Topeka to become Google, KS.
• Carol Bartz thinks she is Steve Jobs.
• Huge Botnet killed in Spain.
• Ballmer in the news to an extreme.
• Government to up the ante for Internet access by wasting $25 billion.
• iPad scheduled for March26.

• Palm having trouble. Smart phones not catching on.
• Someone wins unknown Apple contest for hitting the 10 billionth download.
• Microsoft versus spammers.
• NASA wants to go to Mars.
• Intuit for the Mac.
• Facebook glitch screws up messages.
• NEC aims to increase profit 10X in three years. How??
• Dumb story of the week crops up.

• Google cited for criminal activity in Italy over violation of Italian privacy laws. Huh?
• Google also under threat by anti-trust division.
• New Nintendo looks to be competing with iPad.
• Yahoo does some sort of deal with Twitter.
• Apple iTunes stores hits 10 billion songs sold. Company may bring out X-rated app store.
• UN climate panel changing.
• Twitter hits second phishing attack. I checked it out. What a lame attack. I explain.
• Intel to continue to diversify.
• Yelp slammed.

• Apple SDK for iPad shows camera.
• Google hit with EU anti-trust probe for being too good.
• Sex apps still in iPhone store. Nexus One has more.
• FCC pushing broadband even more than before. Why?
• Intel investing in green tech.
• Mobile phone sales down in 2009.
• Intel hacked with Google. Some kid supposedly doing hacks.
• New dinosaur story crops up again.
• Bloom Energy rolls out tomorrow.
• Amazon getting Linux patents for some unknown reason.
• AT&T faster than Verizon they say. Hmpf.
• Xerox attacks Google and Yahoo.

• Walmart gets into online movie services.
• Someone gets married in Apple store. Gak!
• Apple market share growing in France.
• Chinese under attack on Google attack.
• It appears that naps are good for you.
• Bloom Energy is in the news.
• School spy cam story under investigation by FBI.
• UN worried about e-waste.
• USA Today says digital cameras are cheap. DUH!
• It’s reported that 3D movies are hard to watch.
• Facebook stupidly replacing college yearbooks.

Absolutely genius. Read more about the iPad on John’s latest Marketwatch column.

An Ipswitch man has admitted downloading graphic cartoon porn images featuring child characters from The Simpsons and The Powerpuff Girls TV shows.

The 28-year-old is now a registered sex offender and will have to report to police after pleading guilty in Ipswich District Court to having the bizarre images on his computer.
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Milner told police he would co-operate but did not want to give them his computer.

But an hour-and-a-half later he phoned police and said they could now have his computer.

Officers discovered the computer would no longer turn on but a year later police forensic experts recovered 64 images of cartoon child exploitation material in the machine’s recycle bin.

The images depicted figures from The Simpsons, The Powerpuff Girls and The Incredibles in sexually explicit positions.

Good grief. Now you can be charged with ‘child exploitation material’ where no child was exploited. I’m all for punishing those who exploit children, especially producers of child pornography, and this creepy guy seems to be in the red zone, but this sets a dangerous precedent IMHO. Thoughts?

An Australia Day artwork by student Jessie Du will be viewed by millions on Google’s home page today but one feature of her original design is conspicuously absent – the Aboriginal flag.
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The designer of the flag, Harold Thomas, who owns the copyright to the flag, refused to give Google permission to reproduce the design on its website, Google said.

“We were willing to do pretty much whatever we could but in the end he decided that he just wasn’t happy with it,” the Google spokeswoman said.

But in a phone interview, Thomas, who lives in Humpty Doo in the Northern Territory, said he refused only because Google did not approach him in a respectful way and had demanded to reproduce the flag without charge.

“I said well you can use it but there’s a fee component and the [Google] person said: ‘Oh we can’t do that, we can’t pay for it, we’ll have to ask the girl to change it [the logo] if we have to pay for it,’ ” Thomas said.

“So ever since that time we’ve been argy bargying over how we should go about it and in the end it was a pittance offer so I decided why bother?”

Google refutes this but would not provide further comment.

Google stingy? The owner of the artwork greedy? Or is there a political aspect to this?