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On the slate for topics this morning with Rick Carl & Company, we will be talking about: Conficker Virus The Conficker worm is a computer worm that can infect your computer and spread itself to other computers across a network automatically, without human interaction. If you have an updated version of an AntiVirus program, you should not be at risk. How Do I know if I have Conficker To quickly find out if your PC might be one of the millions infected by Conficker, try clicking to Microsoft.com, Symantec.com, and McAfee.com. If you can get to these sites, you're cool. But if your browser will not let you access any of these websites, then you very likely are infected with

Today was the announcement date for the partnership between semo.net and Mushroom Networks. We've been locally selling the Hydra Internet service since January, but the two companies recently struck a deal to bring Broadband Business solutions to Southeast Missouri. Touting that deal today are articles in Wall Street Journal and Telephony Magazine.

Imagine 1000 songs on an iPod smaller than a key. Plus, it talks to you! That's right, who needs an LCD screen when you can press a button and have the song, playlist & artist information spoken to you. Very cool feature. The iPod shuffle can be ordered online from Apple for $79. For more information, check out the Apple Shuffle page.

Time-Warner Hints to Over-The-Top Television service Over-the-top TV has long-been the "cable network death-knell" because it provides TV programs over the Internet to your computer or television. In some ways Netflix provides this by allowing you to pick television shows to watch. All of CBS television programs are available on the Internet the day after they air, and who hasn't heard of Hulu? But now that Time Warner has divested itself of any cable networks, it is hinting that its programming (CNN & TNT) will be available online.

Wouldn't it be nice if every cell phone in your family (including car chargers) were identical? It was announced today that chargers will be universal, well, in 3 years.