Welcome to the pilot episode of The Weekly Crunch hosted by iTnews journalist Ben Grubb and edited by Munir Kotadia.

This week the Australian Pirate Party kicked off its campaign in Australia.
Microsoft launched a free anti-virus tool called Microsoft Security Essentials, which was immediately attacked by Symantec.
Telstra released a video on YouTube showing its engineers fixing fibre optic cables which were recently damaged by Energy Australia workmen in Sydney's CBD.
A researcher from Swinburne University released some interesting statistics about addicton to Cybersex.
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