Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Google: We’re not making Android hardware  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google’s Andy Rubin, head of the company’s Android development, would like to clear something up: Google is not in the phone-making business.  —  Last week TheStreet.com reported that Google had plans to sell …

Bing / Search Blog:
Bing for mobile now live at m.bing.com  —  Today we released an update to the Bing for mobile browser at m.bing.com.  In addition to being a great resource for local searches, quick answers, and maps, we have some new features to tell you about:  —  NFL feature - type a team […]

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Twitter Tricks And Treats For Halloween  —  Twitter tweeted out a message today about a special Halloween feature if you Tweet “#trick” or “#treat.”  It was difficult to figure out at first, but if you tweet either from your Twitter home page (this is key, you can’t enable the feature … […]

Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
How Google Voice Is Growing  —  The call-management service has more than 1 million users and may be expanded abroad, Google tells U.S. regulators  —  In response to questions by U.S. regulators, Google (GOOG) handed over information about the number of users for its Google Voice communication service …

Venture Capital Dispatch:
For Facebook And Zappos, Two Divergent Views Of Its Employees  —  For fast-growing technology start-ups, there are many approaches to employee hiring and retention.  —  Two of the more successful Internet start-ups, Facebook Inc. and Zappos Inc., have very different methods …

Andrew Heining / Christian Science Monitor:
Google’s fade-in homepage confuses  —  It’s no bar code logo, but Google’s latest home page experiment has some searching for an explanation.  —  The search giant has always been a fan of minimalist design, but its latest trick - a google.com that loads with simply a white page … […]

Nilay Patel / Engadget:
27-inch iMacs having performance issues?  —  It’s not at all clear what the root cause of the problem is, but we’ve noticed a big uptick in people complaining about performance issues on new 27-inch iMacs on Apple’s support boards.  The most common symptom seems to be incredibly slow Flash video playback […]

BillShrink Guy / Shrinkage Is Good:
Total Cost of Ownership: Motorola Droid vs iPhone 3GS vs Palm Pre vs MyTouch 3G  —  After months and months of blogger buzz and a heavy veil of secrecy, the new Motorola Droid by Verizon Wireless is set to launch within days, just in time for the holiday season.

Ralf Rottmann / The Next Web:
Google Wave to be opened for federation today!  Yes, for you to host.  —  We’ve just learned that Google might announce the opening of their Google Wave servers for federation later today.  —  So what does this mean?  There are currently two major Wave infrastructures in place, both operated […]

Ralf Rottmann / The Next Web:
BREAKING: Google Wave to be opened for federation today!  Yes, for you to host.  —  We’ve just learned that Google might announce the opening of their Google Wave servers for federation later today.  —  So what does this mean?  There are currently two major Wave infrastructures in place, both […]