Erica Ogg reports from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, where she just live-blogged a whole roster of announcements, including a new iPhone, and updates to MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Snow Leopard, and Safari.
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Today's stories:
Ahoy! Pirate Party gets berth in European Parliament
Storage software industry takes a revenue hit
Report: China to require censorship software
A year after being surprised by upstart budget brands like Vizio and Olevia, the big names in TV have fought back. Samsung showed it too could play their game, and developed its own line of budget model TVs, which have helped it return to dominance in the mid-size LCD market in North America. But what's next for Vizio? CNET home theater expert John Falcone joins us to talk TVs and holiday shopping prices.
Also in Friday's podcast, Apple releases the much needed software update for the iPhone, hackers find their way into one of the computers at CERN used for the Large Hadron Collider project, and Microsoft releases another installment in its Gates and Seinfeld ad campaign.
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Today's stories:
Apple stomps bugs with iPhone 2.1 release
Hackers break into Large Hadron Collider computer
Google buys Korean blog platform TNC
One of alleged T.J. Maxx hackers pleads guilty
Midsize LCD sales: Major names beat Vizio
Seinfeld and Gates hit the road for Vista
Microsoft recently pulled an operating system switcharoo--a la the Folgers taste test or the Pepsi Challenge--on a focus group with the hopes of changing public perception of Windows Vista. Now the company has posted some of the videos of people's reactions online. But will the marketing scheme work? And separately, while in Redmond, reporter Ina Fried got an up-close look at an experimental research project, called Sphere. News intern Holly Jackson checks in with Ina on both those stories.
Also in this podcast: after a 17-month antitrust saga, satellite radio companies Sirius and XM are now one; a new line of MacBooks expected to arrive soon might not include Intel's Montevina chipset; IBM's trying to reduce the number of "senior moments" people have (demo video embedded below); and Beijing considers emergency measures to improve its polluted air in time for the Olympics.
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Today's stories:
Intel outside Apple's pending MacBook launch?
BT guns for Android and Skype with Ribbit buy
IBM mobile software helps 'senior moments' (video below)
Microsoft goes live with Mojave videos
Taking Microsoft's Sphere for a spin
Adobe hopes Lightroom captures photo trends
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Rafe Needleman is editor of CNET's Webware. He's been covering technology since 1988, and has interviewed thousands of tech execs. He blogs at 
Leslie Katz is senior editor of CNET News' Crave blog, which focuses on gadgets, games, and all other digital distractions.
Erica Ogg keeps up on the latest consumer electronics and PC goings-on as chief correspondent for CNET News' Crave blog.
Jennifer Guevin is assistant managing editor for CNET News and focuses on science and green tech.
Josh Lowensohn writes for Webware.com, CNET's blog about Web applications and
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