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Microsoft's code name "Albany" has it's official name now - it's Equipt. For $70 a year it will keep three PCs updated with the latest software plus access to the full MS Office Suite. It seems to be a response to Google Documents.

Blockbuster changed their minds about Circuit City - they're not going to buy them after all. Their stock went up, Circuit City's went down.

Microsoft may buy Yahoo. We've heard this all before, and some people say it isn't true. But it was enough to push Yahoo stock up about 6%.

The 3G iPhone won't be sold online - only in brick and mortar stores. And you'll have to activate it there to get that $199 price. As for your old one - you can turn it into a touch if you deactivate the phone. Or give it to a friend.

Woah - when you compare it to other services - texting is expensive! One Blogger did the math.

Chinese bloggers are using software to write backwards so that it's harder for internet censors to flag them as controversial.