This Week in Tech 67

Does the Google CEO's place on Apple's board presage a Sun merger? Nancy Drew and Vista, and behemoth plasma displays.

• Microsoft is shutting down MSN Messenger videochats forcing users to move to Windows Live Messenger.
• Check out Microsoft's Live Labs
• Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, has joinedApple's board of directors.
• Dvorak thinks Apple and Sun will merge
• Panasonic is to start selling a 103" plasma display for $80,000.
• Toshiba is officially one of the manufacturersof Microsoft's Zune.
• Using a program on Windows, people can stripWindows DRM.
• Users are also now able to circumvent Windows Media DRM.
• An Apple Media Event is scheduled for September 12th.
• Windows Vista RC1 has been to certain people and is set to be released to the public on September 9th.
• Windows Vista has gone on sale on Amazon.
• The Brazilian government is requesting data from Google.
• Microsoft wants a patent for conjugating verbs.
• Intel is going to decimate its work force this Tuesday.
• Sony is in charge for all of the exploding batteries.
• Spiralfrog is allowing free legal downloads of music, but requires you to listen to ads in order to listen to the music.
• Finland is conducting a mobile-phone throwing competition.
• OK Go's "Here it Goes Again" video on Youtube completely blew up and they even performed the video live on the MTV Video Music Awards.
• Bit-Tech has put out a review of Dell's high end XPS 700.
• A MySpace magazine is slated to begin publication.

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