News Bytes for 2/15/2010

Is Columbia, MO the 17th most romantic city in America? Amazon thinks so

Switch that turns on the spread of cancer discovered

New image sensor from OmniVision brings 5-megapixel RAW shooting to mobile phones

Microsoft to get $100 million annual tax cut and possible amnesty on its $1.27 billion Nevada tax “maneuverings,” if Washington State House Bill passes

Regulators may drop broadband line-sharing bombshell in coming weeks

Toshiba develops 1TB SSD that fits on a postage stamp

Max Ray “Iceman” Butler, AKA Max Vision gets sentenced to 13 years in federal prison– longest known sentence for hacking charges– he ran the notorious CardersMarket online forum

New from Mattel, it’s Computer Software Engineer Barbie!

Square opens public trial for iPhone payment system

Boeing 747 destroys ballistic missile with laser

Wikileaks and Iceland MPs propose ‘journalism haven’

YouTube speed tester: net neutrality judo will show you when your ISP is messing with you

Video site Veoh bankrupt, heads into liquidation

Texas Instruments stuffs WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, and FM radios on a single chip

South Korean iPhone users turn to sausages as a cold-weather ‘meat stylus’

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