Google Android Prototype In the Wild  —  Here’s the first gorgeous shot of an Google Android prototype in the wild.  It looks HTC-ish in build, similar to the grainy versions we’ve seen in the official videos and the renderings in the SDK emulator.  Our source, a Giz reader …

Source:   Gizmodo
Author:   Brian Lam
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There is no lawsuit against the Richter Scales.  —  As previously mentioned, I will soon be releasing a statement in regard to the Here Comes Another Bubble video created by The Richter Scales.  I’ve said very little publicly regarding the matter out of respect to all involved parties …

Source:   Lane Hartwell
Author:   Lane
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Can You Outbid Microsoft For The Microsoft Name In Portugal?  —  Microsoft is reasonably protective of its name — even to ridiculous levels at times.  However, it surprised us to find out that a company other than the Redmond giant happens to have the trademark on Microsoft in Portugal.

Source:   Techdirt
Author:   Mike Masnick
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Source: Digg hires bank, hoping to sell for $300 million or more  —  It’s been a little more than a month since the last rumors surfaced about social news site Digg trying to sell itself for at least $300 million.  —  A reliable source just confirmed the company’s plans …

Source:   VentureBeat
Author:   Eric Eldon
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PEW Survey Finds Most People Don’t Google Themselves That Often After All  —  A PEW/Internet Survey out this week found that 47% of internet users have done ego searches, up from 22% five years ago.  That nearly half of internet users are searching for themselves seems excessive, but only 3% say they check regularly.

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QuickBooks users be cautious of recent update  —  At the risk of spreading unnecessary FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt),] It’s not FUD, we want to caution Inuit’s QuickBooks users of installing the most recent update, without proper back-ups - especially if you typically store lots of important files on the desktop.

Source:   The Unofficial Apple Weblog […]

Palm Treo 755p goes live (at last) on Verizon, costs more  —  Here’s a special present to those Palm diehards out there that’ve been sticking with their Verizon service for the past months, hoping against hope that Palm will notice them hanging out over on the largest CDMA network in the States …

Source:   Engadget
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Can Blogs Do Journalism?  —  On the face of it, the question of whether blogs can do journalism is absurd — like asking whether sites published on Vignette can do journalism.  A blog, after all, is just a content management system — revolutionary because it made web-native publishing free …

Source:   Publishing 2.0
Author:   Scott […]

Striking writers in talks to launch Web start-ups  —  MOVING TO NEW MEDIA: Aaron Mendelsohn, a Writers Guild board member known for the “Air Bud” franchise, is in a group that plans to produce programming for the Internet independently of Hollywood studios at odds with the union.

Source:   Los Angeles Times
Author:   Joseph Menn
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Can Ribbit Finally Bring Web & Voice Together?  —  For a long time, I had this belief that the worlds of web and voice would converge, unleashing upon us a whole new class of voice-web mashups.  Instead all we got were some marginal ideas and rarely-used widgets.  Voice, in particular, remained too difficult for web […]