Want another reason to install Safari for Windows? better color management. Safari handles images differently then most other browsers and the result is a richer image.

A federal judge ordered a stop to all RIAA John Doe lawsuits in New Mexico. That means that the individuals the RIAA wants to charge with copyright infringement get to be involved from the beginning, instead of getting a letter at the end saying "screw you, you owe the RIAA $xxxx.xx".

Texas Instruments is introducing consumer DLP chipsets that will include a new color processing system called BrilliantColor. The technology behind it will allow for color blending of up to six colors instead of three.– Ben Longo

Why does it always seem like Canada gets the awesome Xbox bundles first? Last generation it was the translucent green Xbox, and now they're getting a 360 bundle that comes with a free copy of Forza 2.

And you knew it was coming, but now it's official. The Kutarag-ster, Ken Kutaragi, had his last day at Sony. Seems like only yesterday he was ushering in the PS1. Memories...– Benjamin Longo

Google released a new blog focused on public policy today. And imagine this, it seems to be centered around a lot of the concerns people have about Google owning the Universes secrets.

It looks like Joost isn't just looking to take over the online television sector for PC's, but for gadgets and TV's as well. They are tossing around plans to have the application embedded inside everything from HDTV's to a cellphones.

And speaking of incorporating applications into gadgets, BitTorrent released their software development kit for consumer electronics. Hopefully this will spark a trend with companies like Lacie or Motorola to add this feature into their upcoming lineup.– Ben Longo

Many AT&T U-Verse customers were hoping for new features like multiple HD streams or whole home DVR by 2007. Well, these updates look like they won't be showing up until at least March of 2008. Sorry.

Looking for a new line of business? Well, stay away from hard drives. Due to heavy price competition between the top six manufacturers, they aren't making too much off of their drives right now. For instance, Seagate's net income dropped by $62 million dollars to $212 million due to the price wars.

On the other hand, Sony is seeing lots of growth, due to their TV and camera sales. The Sony Electronics division had a 7% surge in sales compared with last year's earnings.– Ben Longo

It was bound to happen, there is now at least one Blu-ray players that is cheaper/equal in price than its PS3 brethren. The BDP-S300 is going to be priced at $499, a $100 cheaper than it was originally said to cost.

And the latest effort to show that social-networking is coming to a head, Coca-Cola announced their own networking effort. Only this soda-themed version will be cellphone only.

Google, in a surprise move, picked up software manufacturer PeakStream. Financial details have been hard to come by, but the companies main clame to fame is that it allows for software to benefit from multi-core processors, even when they are designed for single-core systems.– Ben Longo

The Chief Technology Officer for Yahoo, Farzad Nazem, decided to call it quits after a 10-year run. His last day is June 8th. Please bring a baked good or soda.

AT&T is launching an international texting program. Now for $.10 a message or 100 messages for $9.99 a month you can text overseas with confidence. Our question is, Why would you sign up for the 100 messages option? Since you only save $.01.

Your in-boxes are free! Your in-boxes are free! Well not really, but spam master Robert Soloway was arrested. The 27-year-old spammer could be stuck in the slammer until he's 92, if he gets the maximum sentence.– Ben Longo

While the Catholic church may not believe in some forms of science, they do believe in solar power. The Vatican is tricking out one of their audience halls with solar panels to power the building all year long.

New York is trying to pass a new bill to block minors from being able to purchase games that include "depraved violence." These bills always make us laugh, because the kids that should be barred from content like that usually have parents that don't care what they do (no offense, bad parents).

$3.2 billion later, Cisco finally wrapped up their purchase of the online collaboration service WebEx.

And speaking of user-generated content, a US court ruled that websites can be held responsible for illegal or discriminating content hosted on their site. We just might have opened a big old can of worms.

Best Buy has begun testing Geek Squad support centers inside of FedEx/Kinkos. This marks the first time Best Buy has shown interest in moving the company into other locations.

A new lawsuit was filed against Microsoft and Wal-Mart. They claimed that the fire that killed their baby in December 2004, was caused directly by an overheating Xbox 360. Oddly enough the fire took place a full 11 months before the 360 launched.

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Nintendo set their prediction for the total lifetime Wii sales in North America at 35 million consoles, just shy of the PS2's total from last generation. Who would have guessed numbers like these for Nintendo during the Game Cube years?

2006 was another record-setting year for online ad revenue. It reached almost $17 billion, showing a 35% gain over 2005. Now if only they could actually start making the ads fun or interesting.

Palm's stock rose 4% yesterday, all because their CFO canceled a speech due to his back going out. However, investors thought it was an indication that they were going to be bought out. Looks like the jokes on them.– Ben Longo

It's not just terrorists that can take down power plants. Faulty networks can too. The Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Tennessee came to a screeching halt due to "excessive use" of the company's Ethernet network. Great—another thing I need to worry about.

Intel has become the latest company to try and "green" itself up. They are going to remove lead from all of their 45 nm processors, and eventually 65 nm processors as well. Kudos, Earth buddy.

They said it couldn't be done, but the trends are saying otherwise. Illegal downloading among kids has shown a decrease. Although most kids that stayed away from illegal downloads were more concerned with downloading a virus rather than facing legal trouble.– Ben Longo

There's a new place to properly recycle your old computers now, Staples. For $10 they'll take any computer or screen off of your hands. Peripherals are free, though.

The online Russian music provider, AllofMP3.com was dealt yet another blow. One of their few sources of income from England, credit vouchers, were seized during a raid in East London.

We're sure that Microsoft has a little smirk on its face right now, they claimed that zero manufacturers have chosen to license the special European Union version of Windows Vista. You know, the one that took out Windows Media Player. – Ben Longo art by Loren Long

Apple's got a new class-action lawsuit on their hands. This time MacBook and MacBook Pro users are claiming that Apple mislead them into thinking that the screens are physically capable of better clarity, when it was really just an effect known as dithering.

Microsoft spent a decent chunk of change today in order to stay competitive in the online ad game. $6 billion to be specific for digital marking firm, Aquantive. $6 BILLION, Take that GooTube.

In a recently conducted survey of 40 countries, over 26 were found to be blocking Internet content to "protect" their citizens. Even the US made the list, but we say it's ok because it's focused on copyright infringement.– Ben Longo

Looks like Vista/Server 2008 will be Microsoft's last 32-bit versions of Windows, after that it's going to be 64-bit and beyond.

Dell is finally going to pull its head out of the sand, and the first order of business is to start selling their machines with resellers. That's right, they're seeking out worldwide reseller partners to shovel their goods to.

More and more, people are taking a look at Linux. The latest to take a nibble? The New York Stock Exchange. A transactions will cost half the price it did compared with when they were running the old systems.

This is probably the last thing Vonage wanted to hear (Aside from Patent Infringement), but Skype has secured a deal for its very own section in Wal-Mart. That's right, the retailing juggernaut will be pushing VOIP.

In another interesting Internet-related move, the Department of Defense has decided to block several sites including MySpace and YouTube. Apparently the troops are using too much of the Army's bandwidth visiting them.

Hopefully that pacemaker study we showed you last week didn't involve iPod shuffles, because the UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco has given every last one of their 8,300 employees a shiny new shuffle. This could be a prescription for disaster.– Ben Longo

A young boy has a new heart thanks to some quick thinking and a GPS cellphone. His family was unreachable, so the police contacted Sprint who handed off the mother's GPS coordinates. They were then able to locate the boy and escort him to the hospital.

And speaking of "big brother is watching", Bermuda is set to tag every car on the island with RFID. That way when you don't pay your tickets they will be able to find you in a heartbeat. – Ben Longo

Singer, Akon, found out that you can't get away scott-free if you dry-hump a 15-year-old preacher's daughter. Verizon Wireless has decided to no longer sponsor the concert tour he was associated with.

Just when you thought that the iPod game market was a bust, EA announces that they're bringing four new games to the platform, including Sims Bowling.

In a product demo, Comcast showed off a modem that is capable of pulling in a 150 Mbps. It downloaded all 100,000 articles, 22,000 pictures and 400 videos from Encyclopedia Britannica in four minutes.– Ben Longo Photo: Getty Images

Hopefully you didn't buy any DRAM two weeks ago. For some reason in just one week prices have dropped nearly 6%. And by "you" we mean big corporations that are making large order purchase contracts.

If this isn't just bitter irony. The armor that the US Army is using on its Humvee's is so strong that when it's confronted with an explosion, the doors get jammed shut. Which in turn, locks the soldiers inside.

Comcast finally got around to announcing their Powerboost feature that some of us have had access to for a while now. For those of you new to the service, it basically gives your bandwidth a big ol' cup of espresso for the first few MB of an upload or download.– Ben Longo

Comcast has decided to combine email, voicemail & IM into one easy portal. They have tapped the open source messaging suite Zimbra, to help with the new program they're calling SmartZone.

The more HD programming the better, CBS announced that by 2008, all of their NFL broadcasts will be in HD. You'd think every NFL game would be in HD by now, since a good portion of HDTV purchases are propelled by football alone.

It looks like someone bigger than Viacom is pissed off at YouTube. Thailand, yes the entire country, is planning on suing the video streaming website for hosting clips that "insult" their king.– Ben Longo

While most of the planet is moving to electronic currency, Canada is kicking it old school. They introduced a coin that is worth US $1,000,000. This could end horribly, as I visited an arcade in Vancouver once, and put in what I thought was quarter after quarter into the game. Only to find out later that they were dollar coins.

U.S. Soldiers can breath a sigh of relief. The Army said they didn't really mean to inhibit free speech, and that you don't have to get blogs and emails approved before sending them out.

For those of you who get overwhelmed with printer cartridge purchases, HP has you in mind. Every box will be color-coded in order to express whether you're buying standard, value, or specialty ink.– Ben Longo

And in the latest "me-too," Microsoft, in an effort to hang with the cool kids, bought their own ad firm. They went with a French mobile group called ScreenTonic.

Spammers just keep getting more and more creative. Now they are evading email filters by attaching encrypted or password-protected files to their messages, which filters tend to not scan. Prepare for an onslaught of V1agr^ emails.

All you OLPC lovers who were flipping out that they were going to bring Windows XP to the platform can relax. The president of Software and Content for OLPC, said that no one at the company is even working with Microsoft.– Ben Longo

Market intelligence group iSuppli, is predicting that by 4Q of 2009 over 60% of Notebooks will be sporting flash memory. That comes out to around 24,000,000 laptops.

A woman who was being harassed on World of Warcraft got the last laugh. Her husband and a couple of friends went out and found the idiot in real life and beat him up and his computer.

Here's a life lesson for you. In the wake of a school shooting, make sure that you take down any school-based maps that you have made for Counter Strike. A high-school student from Texas did not heed this advice and subsequently has been expelled.– Ben Longo

AMD is flipping out again about a possible monopoly that may or may not exist between Japanese PC vendors and Intel. AMD claims that NEC, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Sony and Hitachi were all in cahoots with Intel.

Extra! Extra! U.S. Still think China and Russia are too lax with piracy control. THE US Trade Representative issued an annual report sending the two countries to the top of the list.

I know I'm only adding to the publicity, but what exactly is so monumental about iGoogle? There's been press all morning long on it, and as far as I can gather all they did was add an "i" to the name and some customizable widgets.– Ben Longo

Yahoo's picking up the remaining 80% of online advertiser Right Media, for $680 million. That looks like chump change compared with the $3.1 billion Google put down for DoubleClick.

The MMORPG, Lord of the Rings Online, has decided to scrap a feature allowing you to get married. Why? The designers were wasting too much time deciding whether a hobbit should be allowed to marry a dwarf, or if a guy elf could get hitched to another guy elf.

No more posting ugly screen captures of eBay pages. The online auction site announced ToGo eBay widgets. Now you grab a fully active mini capture of any auction that you want to keep tabs on or show off.– Ben Longo

Google claims that after 32 hours, the glitch that was messing up people's personal homepage is completely resolved.

The Weather Channel is spending over $50 Million in order to get ready for HD. While that may seem ridiculously overpriced, apparently that includes building an entire new studio.

AOL's new portal page looks familiar, I mean really familiar. It's probably because they stole the interface from Yahoo, how original.– Ben Longo

Dan Glickerman of the MPAA stated at a recent DRM conference that he not only believes that it's okay for the consumer to rip DVDs for personal use, but that if they are to use DRM it must not constrict the consumer.

Lenovo has been selected to design the 2008 Olympic torch. We suspect what really gave them an edge over the competition was their experience with flaming laptops.

Nintendo reported a nice little boost in overall yearly sales, something to the tune of $8.2 billion or a 90% increase. It's not all sunshines and rainbows though, they missed their sales target for the Wii by 160,000 units.– Ben Longo

AT&T is now the biggest ISP in the US with 12.9 million broadband users. The crown previously belonged to Comcast.

We can all relax a little bit about outsourcing. Even though the US is outsourcing more and more, it actually gained an extra 147,000 tech positions last year.

The injunction against Vonage that was blocking them from signing up new customers has been removed. So now they can go on with "business as usual." That is, until their next court court date with Verizon, in about two months. – Ben Longo