Segment 1:
* The Chinese government may have been caught flat-footed by the big Google anti-censorship announcement and the US speech on Internet freedom, but the country's leaders are making up for lost time
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/china-loves-ballmer-hates-google-rails-against-us.ars
* Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates appeared on the Jan. 25 edition of ABC’s "Good Morning America" to talk about the U.S. economy and his charitable works
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Bill-Gates-Says-US-Economy-Needs-Years-of-Digging-Out-790492/
* The Pope is asking priests to become more media savvy by preaching to the faithful from the Internet as well as the pulpit
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10440461-93.html
Segment 2:
* A Minnesota woman fined nearly $2 million for illegally downloading music has seen the fine reduced from that "monstrous" amount by a U.S. District Court judge who dropped the fine to $54,000
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/policy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222400548&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_Internet
* AOL on Monday announced it spent $36.5 million to buy video production company StudioNow
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/digital-downloads/broadband/e3i57da5f249d19e7dc8760343942761b5b?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mediaweek-Interactive-Media+%28Mediaweek+News+-+Interactive+Media%29
Segment 3:
* AMD is rolling out three processors for desktops that come in at prices less than $100.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222400526&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_Hardware
* Could a person harness the power of dark energy—the mysterious and pervasive force suspected of speeding the universe's expansion—to block bullets, hurl adversaries around like rag dolls, and create small gravitational vortices out of thin air using nothing more than thoughts?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dark-energy-mass-effect
Segment 4:
* Interview: Michael Lopez from Google
Segment 5:
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