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Leave it to Redmond to ante up with a big, gas guzzling SUV for its “street-side view” purposes. Recently caught cruising in Northern California, this hulking Chevy makes Immersive Media’s Google fleet (family mini-van and college grad’s first car) look pretty tame. Now if only they could snap more pics of Ballmer pulling this face. Take another look after the break.

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What’s a Thursday in June without nine new boringcams from HP to be totally underwhelmed by? We can’t think of a better way to spend our morning than to sort through all these mundane Photosmart models, and if you have the patience feel free to join in on the fun. The cameras range from the $80 E337, which features a 5 megapixel sensor and a 1.5-inch LCD, all the way up to the R937 (pictured), sporting a 3.6-inch touchscreen and an 8 megapixel resolution, which goes for $300. In between is a vast wasteland of minor feature bumps and teensy aesthetic tweaks, but we’ve gotta hand it to HP for packing good amount of features into some fairly well priced cameras. Keep reading and all will be revealed.

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David A. Czech is crazy upset about tickets, so he’s suing the city of Northwood, Ohio, its police department, and an Arizona-based maker of red-light cameras (which automatically snap photos of traffic violations). The suit alleges that the cameras are part of an “unconstitutional ordinance to extort money” put in place by the city, and Mr. Czech (on behalf of himself and 20,000 other “offenders”) is asking for a $3 million payback and an injunction barring use of the cameras. This isn’t the first case of its kind that we’ve seen — and it undoubtedly won’t be the last, considering the recent spate of these systems being utilized across the nation.

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Howard Stringer — Sony Corp’s CEO and man with the plan — just exited stage-left from Sony’s annual shareholder meeting in Tokyo. To say that the 6,000 attendees were skeptical of said plan would be an understatement given a year of fiscal losses, job cuts, PS3 under-performance (with an eventual Kutaragi dismissal), and an embarrassing and dangerous recall of some 10 million batteries among othermissteps. Still, Howard stood strong, assuring investors that Sony has made the swtich from “recovery to profitable growth” and will be a “dominant company” in the digital age. So what’s the plan?

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We’re beginning to wonder if someone isn’t adding a little something to the water over in England, as a recent heist of Sigma Imaging’s UK offices makes the country home to the second high-stakes consumer electronics robbery this month. The crooks, which were affectionately dubbed a “professional gang,” reportedly broke into the offices and warehouse of Sigma UK in order to lift “a large quantity” of wares. So much so, in fact, that Sigma has warned that the incident could “temporarily disrupt supply to customers,” but it failed to mention exactly what was stolen. Notably, the culprits must have momentarily forgotten that they were in the surveillance capital of the world, and now police are breaking down CCTV footage in order to garner more details.