FRIDAY MORNING LITE


DEAR SANTA,
Can I have one of these? They're only $3600!


ALWAYS LOW PRICE DOWNLOADS
Walmart fires a broadside at the music download world with an .88 cent pricepoint!


CAN YOU SEE ME NOW?
With CameraPhones invading society enmasse, LG has ratcheted up the ante with a CameraPhone which can take ONE HOUR of full motion video. And yet, still no effort to secure phonecalls from being dropped!

Meanwhile, members of the British Parliment are being removed by the Sargeant at Arms for using their cellphone cameras - even if it's just for a phonecall!


1-800-P2PCOLLECT?
Doing what they did for file-sharing, Kaaza is now setting their sights on free long distance phone calls.

I can see it all now, this time next year, MA BELL will start dragging it's customers in court for phonecall swapping!

HERE WE GO AGAIN
Being charged with Anti-Trust is nothing new for Redmond as they head into court again for the latest round. This time, they square off against REAL NETWORKS.


JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
iTunes essentials - the Holiday edition.

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SPANKED!
The Federal Appeals Court in D.C. has ruled AGAINST the RIAAs terror campaign by saying they may not subpeona records from ISPs.

Couple that with this report from the Netherlands of a ruling that Kazaa is legal to distribute and you can say it's a bad day for the RIAA jihadists.

DOIN' THE LORD'S WORK
An anonymous donor is giving military personnel and their familes free computers so they can communicate while the soldier's are in Iraq. Can the President give an anonymous Medal of Freedom?


HAPPINESS IS A WARM MARTIAN LANDER
Great Britain reports that BEAGLE 2, the Royal Mars Lander, has successfully separated from it's mother ship and is on schedule to make a Christmas Day landing on the Red Planet.


Meanwhile, NASA has taken to creating Movie TRAILER style animations to promote their Mars landing programs.