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Ever casually check to see if a certain domain is available by way of the Network Solutions site? If so, the joke's on you - they'll reserve the domain for five days, forcing you to buy it from them. And they charge over three times as much as more competitive registration companies. Of course, they say it's for your own good.

Sony-BMG is actually going to sell unlocked music through Amazon.

But careful - that non-DRM'd music might be watermarked.

EMI thinks it costs too much to fund the RIAA, and is thinking of merging them with its foreign counterparts.

Banners at the Moscone Center are fueling rumors of the "Macbook Air" - a small notebook computer. Others think it points to a big bet on WiMAX. All will be revealed at tomorrow's keynote.

Gizmodo behaves badly with one of these, shutting down racks of TV's at CES. Fellow bloggers are unamused - and the naughty editor is now banned from CES.

Meanwhile, a Polish teen tops that in a big way by taking over his city's public transit system with his own remote control.