Segment 1:

*   Apple and Google severed their last official ties Monday morning, as Arthur Levinson has resigned from Google's Board of Directors.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Arthur-Levinson-Resigns-from-bw-1918328936.html?x=0&.v=1
*  After suffering through a weeklong outage, T-Mobile Sidekick users got even worse news on Saturday, when the company advised them that any data not on their phone was likely gone forever due to a hardware failure.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/12/sidekick-data-loss-users-_n_317974.html

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*   A Tennessee woman was arrested last month for "poking" another user on Facebook.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/tennessee-woman-arrested-facebook-poke/story?id=8807685

Segment 3:

* For an online marketplace that can boast of more than 2 billion downloads and 85,000 available apps, Apple (NSDQ:AAPL)'s App Store seems to take a lot of heat -- and maybe rightly so. 
*   Is a Google Voice a phone service or a web service?
http://www.billingworld.com/articles/regulatory/is-google-voice-a-web-or-a-phone-service.html

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* In a review of Windows 7 prior to its release, the technical Web site ZDNet.com said that "subjectively, the change from Vista to Windows 7 is like releasing a car's handbrake."
http://www.physorg.com/news174207089.html

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