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Asustek Computer plans to launch the Eee Monitor in September, a PC built into a monitor designed to rival Apple's iMac, the company's CEO said Monday.

Social networking powerhouse Facebook launches in Japan, Solitaire gets an interesting honour and Greenpeace finds hazardous chemicals in popular gaming consoles. All that news and more on this week's World Tech Update.

Greenpeace has published a report called Playing Dirty, in which it analyzes a Sony Playstation 3 a Nintendo Wii and Microsoft's Xbox 360 Elite.

Games consoles contain toxic chemicals that would not be allowed in young childrens' toys, even though the technology to eliminate them is available, according to a study by environmental lobby group Greenpeace. However, manufacturers are starting to eliminate some toxic chemicals from their products, Greenpeace said.

Drinking and driving at Links - a Tokyo bar that offers a round of golf with your campari and soda thanks to a complex computer simulation using real clubs and balls.

Bill Kendrick is a software machine. He is the lead designer and developer of New Breed Software, a company creating free and open source games, libraries, tools and utilities across a range of operating systems, mobile devices, hand held and home video consoles. He has personally created a diverse range of classic Web-based games that run across all browsers, and has worked as a professional video game developer since 2003.

In this week's show: fake Microsoft job posts, Xerox demos new eco-friendly projects, Dell cuts jobs, Microsoft helps law enforcement, Galileo's second satellite blasts off, Xbox 360 gets a price cut and more!

Green sells, whether the product in question is a hybrid car or a laptop computer. Tech firms know this.

Tech icons Apple and Google top BusinessWeek's 2008 list of The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies. This year's ranking adds three financial data points - revenue, margin growth and stock returns - to survey results from company executives and senior management to decide which business belts out the brightest innovations.

Even the most culturally sensitive among us has to acknowledge that Japanese commercials are... well, strange. First of all, most Japanese commercial actors hail from the Randy "Macho Man" Savage school of advertising whereby they look directly into the camera and shout the product name as loudly and excitedly as they can.

While more IT companies are now taking significant steps toward going green, there is still a lot of work to do to protect the environment, says Greenpeace International, an environmental activist group.