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leave your BlackBerry smartphones and trios at the door you won't need them here because you are in the queue I'm rich demuro with seen a TV in New York City and we're talking the top tech stories for the second week of may 2007 but first let's get you started with your must see moment the Kentucky Derby was so last weekend here's a high-tech race where the green refers to the technology the shell eco-marathon challenges engineering students to drive the farthest using the least amount of fuel Cal Poly won the America's last month at 1900 and two miles per gallon the European challenge takes place this weekend in the South of France if you wanted an excuse to buy a new laptop intel gave you one this week launching new technologies for their popular processors the company's latest centrino notebook chips are now faster that means better performance when running various apps at the same time new power management features lets you get better battery life and wireless end technology gets you up to five times faster downloads and twice the Wi-Fi range think fast what's a great online auction site if you said ebay then you already know why yahoo decided to retire its auction website the shutdown announcement quietly posted this week informing users it's lights out for the US and canada auction sites on jun 16th in a last-ditch effort to save some face yahoo reiterated it would be keeping its leading auction sites in hong kong singapore and taiwan open for business I'll do anything to avoid going into a wireless store to get help with my cell phone some salespeople are pushy others treat you like you're invisible which brings us to your quick quiz which wireless carrier ranked number one for retail sales satisfaction according to JD powered associates is it t-mobile verizon wireless ATT alltel or sprint nextel survey says t-mobile the carrier got good marks for sales staff store displays and pricing customers surveyed said they like to be greeted within 30 seconds of entering a store finally this site and this week it's a site that helps you make a site that sound confusing well it shouldn't be because Weebly wants to make things simple we believe says it's the easiest way to create and publish a website besides hiring someone else to do the work adding content like videos pictures maps and text is as simple as dragging and dropping one of the coolest features just hover over a site template and you get an instant preview of what your site would look like customization is a breeze just move things around with your mouse and did I mention it's all free you can even try building a site without even signing up that's it for this edition of the q remember cnet TV is your source for tons of tech videos all week long I'm rich tomorrow in New York City don't say I didn't tell yourself for more video like this go to cnet.com and click on cnet TV