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As Microsoft releases its Silverlight 2.0 media player tomorrow, it is claiming strong momentum for its free, would-be Adobe Flash-killer.

Intel and Yahoo have partnered in the development of a hardware and software platform designed to meld television and the Internet.

HP is to buy EDS, CBS is to buy CNET, Carl Ichan launches a proxy fight for Yahoo, Microsoft limits computing power for XP, LG introduces a 3G Prada phone and Twitter beats big media on the China quake.

In the news this week: Sumner Redstone speaks out against internet piracy, Microsoft-Yahoo pens its final chapter, WiFi for the sky, a computer is developed from 137 year old plans, hit the golf bar after work, Maker Faire features homemade gadgets and Nokia Siemens shows off a 3G base station.

Media mogul Sumner Redstone, the man who chairs both Viacom and CBS, said Tuesday that ISPs, Web site operators and computer equipment makers must do more to tackle the problems of online piracy.

Google's YouTube will soon give marketers more data about viewership of its videos, so that they have a better understanding of clips' reach and effectiveness at boosting brand awareness and sales.

BitTorrent wants to shake up the way content is streamed online by taking its method for downloading large files and applying it to multimedia streaming.

Adobe Systems will boost its strategy of helping developers and users create desktop and Web applications that share a similar user experience at its Adobe MAX user conference in Chicago this week.

Google has started to provide video clips in Google News, a feature it had been widely expected to add to its article search and aggregation site and which Yahoo and AOL already offer in their news sites.

Although boxing legend George Foreman, a judge on the second-year CBS reality show American Inventor, has yet to invent a network device, his Lean Mean Grilling Fat-Reducing Machine has been used by countless techies to quickly cook sandwiches and hamburgers after a long day in the data center.

Mozilla's Firefox is getting promoted on one of the world's most popular Web pages, Google's Google.com home page, as the open-source browser continues its David-vs.-Goliath battle against Microsoft's Internet Explorer.