quote [ In a surprise move, Apple said it is to abandon its annual tech gathering Macworld after this January's event... ..."Apple is steadily scaling back on trade shows and in recent years is reaching more people in more ways than ever before," Mr Dowling told BBC News. ]

quote [ A "10" is not a score we give out very often. In fact, the last time we gave a 10 to a console game was Soul Calibur in 1999. A 10 doesn't mean a game is perfect -- it means a game is pushing boundaries, expanding a genre, and doing many things to a level so far above and beyond its competitors that they overshadows any flaws. ]

quote [ Georgian air force commander Colonel David Nairashvili describes footage taken by an unmanned Georgian drone that allegedly shows a Russian fighter jet shooting it down on Sunday. ]

quote [ A wise man (Mel Brooks) once said, "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." Updating that for the new millennium, you get, "Tragedy is when I make a typo. Comedy is when you get 60,000V of electricity pumped through you and I catch it all on camera." ]

quote [ Martin's legislation would require retailers on cash transactions to round final totals up or down to the nearest five- or 10-cent mark. Debit and credit card transactions would not be rounded. ]

quote [ With Photoshop Express, digital photos can be uploaded and sorted anytime, edited non-destructively to always preserve the original image, and shared from anywhere, on any Web browser. ]

quote [ LEGO Universe, the upcoming LEGO-branded MMO, can best be described as "LEGO Star Wars multiplied by a million" ]

quote [ There is a crisis facing internet radio: new mandatory royalty rates are so high that they will force most or all independent internet radio stations off the air. ]

quote [ The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced its decision on Internet radio royalty rates, rejecting all of the arguments made by Webcasters and instead adopting the "per play" rate proposal put forth by SoundExchange(a digital music fee collection body created by the RIAA). ]