(Korean) Hello Kitty fan-girls rejoice. Korean tech manufacturers Moneual have come up with a fully themed Net-top (a small, child-friendly desktop) with everyone's favorite, and ubiquitous, feline.

The French really did it. The much-anticipated anti-piracy bill was signed into French law yesterday, making file-sharers (or their parents or guardians) outlaws. The convicted will lose access to the Internet, and repeat offenders will be fined. Good luck, monsieurs, and we promise not to roll our eyes too hard

Apparently, with the runaway success of 'Transformers,' the '80s is the new film fodder of choice. Peter Berg ('Hancock,' 'The Kingdom') has signed on with Hasbro to do a Battleship game. Ship-sinking will commence in 2011.

Anybody who's anybody has their own app store these days, and the U.S. government is certainly important enough. With the launch of Apps.Gov, the G-men (and women) hope to reduce costs and increase efficiency via a host of Web-based "Cloud computing" applications for its many departments.

The BBC is thinking of broadcasting the London 2012 Olympics in 3-D, which makes sense only to the users of 3-D TV (and their goofy glasses).

The eagerly anticipated novel 'The Lost Symbol' by Dan Brown is supposed to save book-sellers, and it is -- kind of. The Kindle version is surprisingly outselling the hardcover on Amazon.com, but we'll see if this trend persists into the holidays.