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Welcome to the weekend everybody! Time for another installment of the Policy Roundup. It was an awkward week out there on the interwebs – most notably for our more scurvy readers, The Pirate Bay officially shut down its tracker. The move comes at the end of a very drawn out, sketchy takeover of the domain by an independent buyer. And while PEX and DHT will obviate the need for trackers in the long run, it’s sad to see TBP fizzle out so impotently.

November 10th marked the release of one of this years most anticipated games yet. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. And the question on the majority of gamer’s minds is, “Will Modern Warfare 2 live up to the hype, or drown in its shortcomings?”
A few weeks prior to its release IW, the development studio behind the COD franchise, raised concerns about IW’s lack of perceived commitment to the PC platform. Posted on a fans podcast was information regarding changes to the MP aspect for PC gamers, but I’ll get into the details about the changes later. For now, lets just say it was enough to start a forum where 200,000+ PC gamers stated their intention to boycott the game. Needless to say, as an avid PC Gamer, I probably wouldn’t have thrown down 60 bucks for a game that disregards certain platforms if I hadn’t already pre-purchased it, but maybe I’m jumping to conclusions.

So they may not be as cool as Google Wave invites these days, but we at ThruIT blog just got our hands on some invites for Google Voice. The service is pretty cool and its continually being improved upon. Send and receive phone calls, voicemails, and text messages all from your personalized FREE vanity google voice number. Mine is ###-4-KIEVIT. Also, the voicemails are transcribed; although that feature isn’t perfect, its helpful in meetings to get a gist of what the person needed.

Since we have posted our review of the Office 2010 Technical Preview, Microsoft has now released their public beta. Anyone can now download a (completely legal) copy here. This version should hopefully prove to hold more stable then the technical preview.

Via NeoWin

The other day, CNN Money joined the Apple Rumor Mill and wrote an article about how the highly anticipated (but purely speculative) Apple ‘tablet’ is going to “lay waste to the markets for countless other gadgets“. Sorry CNN, but I must respectfully disagree and here is why.

This rumored “God-like portable device” is suppose to do it/have it all: 3G, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, music and video playback, built-in webcam, eBook reader, the ability to watch TV, play games, surf the web and tons of third party app for it – all of this on a high-res touch screen for no more than $1000. Sounds great, right?