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Ben Longo

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For those of you who still haven’t linked up their TiVo boxes to Amazon Unbox, you might want to right now. Since today is the last day to get a $15 UnBox credit for doing so.

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.

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