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What could be more American than a teenage boy asking a teenage girl on a date to the local fair?  This story follows the young couple through a ‘phone call’ and subsequent night out.  The story takes place in the year 2020 and playfully shows how the technology will make the details different than when we were kids while the experience is exactly the same.

Ever wonder what the rest of the world has been searching for in the last 30 days? Across all search engines the popularity charts are topped by these search terms: Google, games cheat, my space, eBay, yahoo, play games, elin nordegren, stupid criminals, and baby boy names.

If your interest is focused on what’s been 'Googled' recently, you‘ll want to test out the new Google Trends.  Google Trends is a new tool from Google Labs that shows the most popularly searched terms from the beginning of 2004 to now.

Over 140,000 people arrived in mass for the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the annual showcase for revealing cutting edge and emerging technology and the companies that produce it.  Tech watchers can always count on the gathering as a harbinger of the year’s biggest stories. Last year’s show featured duo-core laptops and hybrid hard drives with flash memory components, both of which were top technology items for the year. 

More people than ever are using online auto showroom, classifieds and research to make car and accessory purchases. Remember the first time you bought something online?  Your purchase price was probably negligible (perhaps a book from Amazon.com or a clothing item from Sears), and yet a little uncomfortable.  There was something about buying sight unseen and sending credit card information into cyberspace that initially unnerved the most technologically savvy among us.  Yet, in just a few short years, America has gone from agonizing over minor Internet transactions to conducting major complex purchases online without batting an eye.  Nowhere is this significant economic transition more apparent than in the acquisition of cars and car insurance.