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That new iPhone with lovely 3G is much cheaper, sure - but if you're a first time iPhone customer, you'll pay $120 a year extra for the same unlimited data plan that original iPhone customers get. And if you're a business customer? $300 more. Wait, suddenly it's not so cheap.

The MPAA wants the FCC to let them block certain movies from being recorded on DVRs. And if they won't let them do that, they want to be able to make the picture quality less than stellar. They say it will help combat piracy. Or, you know, make people really mad...

...Like Metallica did! They alienated many of their fans with their Napster shenanigans back in 2000 - and people are still angry. Now they're demanding bloggers and music reporters take down early reviews of their album. But see, they INVITED them to come and listen to it in the first place.

Now you can get your daily Fix of the Daily Show With Jon Stewart along with the Colbert Report over on Hulu. Yay!

YouTube announced that professional content creators can sell their own advertising - but some of the requirements are pretty steep.

A supercomputer at the Los Alamos Government Weapons Lab just broke a world record by computing more than a petaflop. It's aptly named "Roadrunner." Meep! Meep!