Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
- Blockbuster is hoping to nab some market share back from mail movie mogul Netflix by teaming up with Samsung to stream movies to the company's HDTVs over high-speed Internet connections. [From: MSNBC.com]
- 'Superbad's' Jonah Hill is suffering from a Twitter impostor who has been tweeting to thousands of followers and is mouthing off to 'Iron Man' director Jon Favreau. [From: Huffington Post]
- Master's of Internet snark, FailBlog has called out The Guinness Book of World Records for encouraging people to break "the most people killed in a terrorist attack" record online. The Guinness Book is, unsurprisingly, not amused. [From: FailBlog via URLesque]
- Unconfirmed reports hint at a less buxom, more brawny Lara Croft in a rumored reboot of the survival-based 'Tomb Raider' series. [From: Kotaku, via Wired.com]
- The Associated Press defeated Florida-based news aggregator All Headline News, after suing them for rewriting the AP's content based on a 91-year old legal doctrine that says rivals can't "re-report" time-sensitive news. Don't be surprised to see a similar suit raised against a blog in the probably-near future. [From: Wired.com]
- Good way to subsidize funding for education? Texas schools have been slapping students who gab in class with $15 cell phone usage fines, earning nearly $101,000 dollars. [From: ABCNews.com, via Wired.com]
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