Hello again and welcome to migraineheartache’s Weekend Update. Where you’ll find all the important news stories from this past week in tech. Well lets get on with it:

I Want My MTV!

MobiTV has been billed as the first provider to offer/broadcast real-time video to cell phones. The service, offered by Sprint, costs an additional $9.99 monthly. They are now adding new channels, and support various handsets. Some of them typical broadcast channels are included like Fox Sports and MSNBC, others are even designed for the mobile environment, such as NBC Mobile. What’s it like to watch TV on a cell phone? Personally I’d love it. I really like the idea that I can pull my cell phone out of my pocket and catch up with the latest news and sports scores in an instant. Read the article over at MSN.

Mad Props, Mad Props.

As reported on Cnet and others, an open source java iTunes client named ourTunes has been released under the GPL by a group of anonymous “hackers”. Unlike the Apple iTunes for Windows and Mac, ourTunes allows a user to queue up and download the music shared by other users on a given network. Recent court rulings have held that developers of p2p file sharing software cannot be held liable for ‘for any copyright infringement committed by people using their products.’ Therefore, I applaud the work of these programmers and I was even checking out their code and I must say, you get some mad props from me. Oh yeah and “Power To The People, Fight The Man, Blah, Blah, Blah….”

Give it up Bill…

Osviews reported this week that Microsoft’s free email service, Hotmail, is throwing down to Google by increasing the free storage to 2GB. When will Bill and the gang learn that you just can’t beat Google, their just to darn cool for you.

Watch out HP, Apple’s Fumbling Too

Software, Hardware, and Everything giant Apple put out a recall this week on a certain group of PowerBook G4 batteries. If you have a PowerBook G4 (Aluminum) 15″ and your battery’s model number is A1045, and its serial number starts HQ404, HQ405, HQ406, HQ407, or HQ408, then you could be at risk of it overheating. Go to the link above if you’re affected. Oh and don’t worry I’m sure Mr. Jobs will make sure you get a new battery that looks even prettier than your old one. And maybe, just maybe (if you’re good) he’ll put a scroll wheel on it…

Got Google?

It is official. Google debuted its IPO thsi week at $85 per share. To quote the article, ‘At that price, the low end of its recently revised range, Google raised $1.67 billion, with $1.2 billion to go to the No. 1 Internet search engine and $473 million to Google executives and investors selling their shares.’ Trading began Thursday, August and you can check the current price of their shares by going here. If I only had some money to invest I’d throw it in right now. Personally, I can’t wait to see what good things Google will come up in the next few years.

Ha, That’s Funny…

Online protests targeting GOP websites could turn out to be more than symbolic during this month’s Republican National Convention, possibly blocking a critical communications tool for the party… “We want to bombard (the Republican sites) with so much traffic that nobody can get in,” said CrimethInc, a member of the so-called Black Hat Hackers Bloc. It’s one of several groups planning to distribute software tools to reload Republican sites over and over again. Thus causing Mr. Bush to ask “What happened to the my .GIF’s of the dancing Jesus and the monkey with the cymbals?”

Well that will do it for this week in tech. For Weekend Update, I’m signing off, Good Day, and Have A Pleseant Tmro.

-b