Some interesting tech-related news from around the web this week. • Imitation may be a form of flattery (the sincerest kind, so they say) but AOL, I think you might have taken it a bit too far. • AT&T Chief Edward "Moneybags" Whitacre is retiring. His going away present? $158.5 Million. Not a bad present. I bet he won't try to return it. • Apple issues a fix for the battery issues that plague......

We trust that all Angelenos had a better Valentine's Day than Cleveland's 19 Action News weatherman, Jon Loufman. While the LA metro area saw clear blue skies, temps in the mid-70s, and no reports of fat, dancing naked men, it seems a blizzard was hardly the most blinding part of Loufman's live on-the-street report. This, of course, begs the question, WWDRD (What would Dallas Raines do?)......