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Netfilx announced they'll be teaming up with Korean electronics giant LG to create a set-top box to download movies off the Net. Apple's probably going to do something similar, though the Xbox 360's been downloading movies straight to TV's for a while now.

Asus is preparing to ship a laptop with a full terabyte of disk space.

ArsTechnica has the scoop on some spyware that you might pick up on Sears.com or Kmart.com if you join their online community. CA's security arm says they download software that tracks absolutely everything you do. Ben Edelman thinks Sears is falling way short of disclosure standards required by the Federal Trade Commission.

Facebook's Social Ads can slap your name and picture into ads for sponsors - though unlike Beacon, Social Ads manage to contain themselves to the Facebook site.

Facebook shut down the account of tech blogger Robert Scoble because he was testing an unreleased feature on Plaxo to copy out the email addresses of all his Facebook friends. This violates Facebook's terms of service, and raises the question of whether data from your social network belongs to you or the network. Kara Swisher thinks it's yours, but Dare Abasanjo sees it differently.

The New York Times says Plaxo has just started trying to sell itself for as much as a hundred million bucks. Silicon Alley calls this chump change.

Non-profit Mozilla set up a for-profit company 3 years back to manage the cash pouring in from Firefox's Google search box, according to a May piece in the New York Times. Henry Blodget thinks that company could go public and be worth at least a few billion dollars.

Bear Stearns analyst Steven Wang says the Journal's traffic would have to grow by a factor of twelve for the move to pay off.