The XBIZ Weekly Tech Watch

This week's Tech Watch brings word of a bandwidth cap on web surfing, as well as a security breach with Apple's iPhone.

• Comcast customers, be aware that the company has put a 250-gigbyte cap on Internet usage. That sounds like it might be a hassle, but TechCrunch believes it will herald a new emphasis on streaming.

• Webmasters, here's a way to relieve some stress: JamLegend.com lets professionals chained to their computers play a "Guitar Hero"-style game at their stations.

• AppleInsider somehow got ahold of a copy of an Apple patent application for a new touch-screen operating system. The application confirms some previous rumors that Steve Jobs wanted to slowly move the computing world into a post-mouse environment.

EyeCandy-brand USB drives include lots of storage space and a psychedelic presentation for a variety of positive messages.

• Sony has unveiled an all-in-one new home theater system built around a Blu-rau player.

• Here's a look at the new Canon 5D Mark II camera.

• Apple has conceded that the iPhone has a major security flaw.

• It looks like many major companies will disable the new "porn mode" in Microsoft's future versions of Internet Explorer.

• For webmasters who are also "Star Wars" maniacs – and who isn't? – here's a guy who built an actual sandspeeder, as seen in the original movie.

• Volkswagen is unveiling a new car that comes with a boat-like deck on its roof.

• A genius built a sleek, futuristic house with a mini-golf course on its roof.

• Samsung has released a sleek new Blu-ray player, as well as a thin new laptop that aims to compete with Apple's troubled MacBook Air.

• One of the most useful applications ever is now available for the iPhone: DirectCall. This app lets users choose from a pre-approved list of companies, and then automatically calls those companies and makes the appropriate choices to get a live person on the phone. It's available thorugh the Apple App Store.

• The document-sharing community website Scribd.com has undergone a facelift.

• As previously reported on XBIZ, Google is working on an answer to the iPhone, and they've working on an App Store to compete with it.

• Gizmodo has a review of Sony Ericsson's new mobile phone.

• The Onion has unveiled a non-satirical new website called Decider that will publish reviews and directions to restaurants and other nightlife events in major cities, although they're only starting in Chicago right now.

TheWB.com has launched as a mainstream video-on-demand alternative to Hulu.com.

Diary.com lets users build online diaries that they can share. Although, doesn't that defeat the purpose of a diary?

• Sony's got a new still camera out that shoots HD video, too.

• Philips has found a way to put an entire home theater into one little box.

• The open-source content manager Drupal has unveiled a new, commercially supported version called Acquia, which aims to make Drupal easier to use and more accessible by offering a better support structure for novices.

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