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welcome to the Q Week in Review I'm rich to mural with cnet TV in New York City and we're talking the top tech stories for the first week of may 2007 but first let's get you started with a good old-fashioned treasure hunt volvo launching a global online hunt for sunken treasure a chest filled with fifty thousand dollars in gold plus the key to a brand new volvo sunk in the ocean somewhere in the world your challenge to solve puzzles and use online clues to find it the promotion in conjunction with the release of the third pirates of the caribbean movie online mapping websites put to the test this week after an accident in the san francisco area literally change the face of travel if engineers didn't spring into action sites like map quested yahoo could have routed drivers on an overpass that collapsed from the heat of a fiery crash the revised routes took up to two days to show up in directions which are generated on the fly while most major mapping sites can display traffic conditions rerouting drivers based on that information is so far not a perfect science social news site dig found itself in the headlines this week after its users posted links to an hd-dvd trade secret at the center of the controversy an encryption key that could be used to copy disks when the site was served a cease and desist letter similar to this one they tried to take down the postings but Doozers revolted flooding dig with a key the legal implications still are not clear the winners of the 11th annual webby awards were announced this week honoring websites online film and video interactive advertising and mobile content among the winners David Bowie for a career pushing the boundaries of art and technology YouTube's co-founders as Person of the Year ninja from the web series ask a ninja getting honors his best actor while YouTube darling an overnight sensation lonely girl 15 AKA jessica rose is best actress the awards ceremony complete with five word acceptance speeches will be held june 5th right here in new york city finally in a sort of Survivor for shippers students at the georgia institute of technology once again put major carriers to the test in a global package race the extreme contests a challenge to see who delivers first between UPS fedex and DHL identical packages are sent to faraway places like zimbabwe and samoa most arrived in a week or two but one wasn't even delivered the winner DHL for delivering first two three of the five locations and second to the remaining to fedex delivered to three locations and UPS only made it to to buy the contests deadline sure makes that overnight express pack to Chicago look like child's play remember cnet TV is your headquarters for everything tech and home of the queue I'm rich Cimarron New York City don't sat until you sell for more video like this go to cnet com and click on cnet TV