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Downloading torrents at an alarming rate? Wondering why your younger siblings can’t connect to Toon Town or Webkins because the connection is too slow? Perhaps your ISP has slowed down your connection without giving you the heads up. While this is completely within their rights as your service provider, Google still wants you to know where they’re doing it or not.

Regardless of whether Google actually sides with the net-neutrals or not isn’t the point. The point is that we’re getting the tools to tell the truth about the entire situation. While Google’s aren’t live yet, feel free to keep an eye out on Google Labs for more information on it’s launch date.

OpenOffice 2.4 isn’t even out the door yet and the discussions have already fired up as to what we have to look forward in the next full release. If you’re not familiar with the product, OpenOffice is an open source alternative to Microsoft Office and other solutions that provides cross platform uniformity and essential tools for the average user. Unfortunately, the product doesn’t hold much of a market share and has been left behind due to the XML-based Office 2007 as it can’t read the files without converting and often reformatting their layout.

But OpenOffice 3.0 promises to fix that issue while adding as many of the bells and whistle it can to provide you a similar, if not superior experience to it’s competitors. And don’t forget that it’s free too!

Source: PC World

Microsoft has released the Zune 2.3 software update (not the 2.3 firmware update) – which is (not surprisingly) disappointing. It is more of an update that is used to fix things up instead of adding cool features that we have been dying to see. The new update will fix all of your podcast and Marketplace problems, setup, UI, and sync issues that have been making people mad for some time.