Considered as the most reliable just recently, now Toyota and Honda have to call back their cars. Some say it's a weird fluke that all this happened after the Government took over American car maker.

"OK, first of all we have to understand that President Obama right now is in car the business because he has basically taken over general motors, he provided some assistance to Ford. Isn't it funny that it's Toyota and Honda now but have the defects.

I would point out that Ford owns Mazda and General Motors is a largest shareholder in Isuzu. Why is it that those two Japanese auto manufacturers haven't been named in this big defect hoopla.

Ra'anana, Israel, 10 February 2010: Emblaze Ltd. has notified Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") that Microsoft's IIS Smooth Streaming system infringes Emblaze's U.S. patent for media streaming technology.

Emblaze has been developing media streaming technology for over a decade and first unveiled its technology to the public in a live video streaming broadcast from the White House during Easter, 1998.   Emblaze's Live Streaming technology allows users to send live or pre-recorded audio and video to other devices, saves on data traffic, does not require devoted streaming servers, and allows reliable streaming even through firewalls.

Valley of Dollars by Devinder Sharma. The $700 billion package that the US Senate has passed could have been put to better use. The $1,8 Trillion that the US has provided in the past nine months could have wiped out the last traces of poverty, hunger, malnutrition and squalor from the earth.

The markets are smiling. After all, with American taxpayers pumping in $1.8 trillion so far to provide a life-saving shot to the failing markets, investors couldn’t have asked for more. And who cares if all the investment banks in Wall Street have faded into history.

Three of America’s top five investment banks have disappeared. The remaining two — Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs — have now been converted into commercial banks. With ace investor Warren Buffet promising to invest $5 billion in the now-nationalised American International Group (AIG), investor sentiments are high.

Big Media Hall of Shame: Worst Corporation Video (3min 7sec). Big Media behemoths, cronies and sell-outs.

"Welcome to the 2008 FreePress Hall of Shame honoring the best of the worst that America has to offer, in media, democracy, and your right to free speech. The Hall of Shame nominees for Worst Corporation are:

Verison - they got caught blocking text messages from this pro-choice group; cable-giant ComCast - they got caught blocking Web traffic in "Bit-Torrent-gate" then paid people off the streets to fill seats at a public hearing; big-media behemoth Viacom - for telling writers it was too soon to put a dollar value on digital content.