Headlines for this week.

Weight Watcher’s labels McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets healthy. Burger King is in talks with Jenny Craig for Whopper labeling.

Microsoft’s Ballmer bets it all on this .

The mobile space must be starting to boom because the patents are starting fly. See who is suing who for what.

Apple sues for their “touchy feely” intellectual property.

Sony, a new player in the handheld device space? Will the WalkMan get another life?

Throw away your PC in 3 years.

YouTube launches auto-captions for videos. Expect new words to be added to Webster’s.

A major transformation took place when computing power moved from the PC/phone to the Internet.

The PC used to be the device that did the work and used the Net to deliver it. Now, the PC, iPod, cellphone are merely connection devices and the Net does the “work”.

An example. Your home phone probably has a built in answering machine which jacked up the price for your phone. When the power goes out, so does the time and your recorded message. Your local phone company offers voicemail as a service option. For x amount a month they record and store your messages. Your phone no longer does the “work”, your local phone company’s server does.

It seems there’s a new bank popping up on every corner, and I still don’t understand it. With almost every financial transaction being enabled online, who needs to go into a bank..especially if they aren’t making loans.

USAA, a company that provides banking and insurance for military veterans, has introduced innovative technology(remote deposit capture) that could literally eliminate the need to ever walk into a bank.

From Clusterstock.

Oh how the mighty ARE falling.

If there was any doubt that social networking is the place for targeted advertising.

Yahoo used to have a great finance portal, but when they tweaked the settings, they lost my home page. News alerts are never timely. Some news from days prior shows as just occurring. They make you click 2 times (see expanded version) to see a story in their feedbox.

Word to Google, start focusing on your iGoogle site. That could be a powerful portal with some tweaks.

Think Microsoft is happy they didn’t acquire them now? or will they get it even cheaper?