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AP – Microsoft Corp. and Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. introduced a high-tech interactive bar table Wednesday that lets patrons order drinks, watch YouTube videos, play touch-screen games and even flirt with each other.

USATODAY.com – The growing popularity of digital video recorders is brightening the picture for network TV, which has been buffeted by steady erosion to cable.

USATODAY.com – LOS ANGELES – Wouldn’t it be cool if you could use your cellphone to monitor activities in your home, say, to zoom in for an audio/video check of the baby’s room while you were at work, or even adjust the heat?

AP – There was a moment near the end of “Kung Fu Panda” so satisfying, so achingly adorable, that I wished I’d been secretly taping so as to immediately put it up on YouTube for the world to see.

PC Magazine – If you think you’ve seen it all in terms of cutting edge HDTVs, think again.

AP – Comcast Corp. said Thursday that by early 2010 it plans to offer consumers in most of its markets Internet service so fast they will be able to download a high-definition movie in minutes.

AP – Coming to late-model Sony LCD flat panels: YouTube videos.