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Today’s “Holy Crap!”:

Official Google Blog- Supercharging Android- Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility

Commentary:

Google CEO Larry Page explains reasoning behind Motorola acquisition (spoiler- patents)

Google buys out Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion – TekGoblin

Google agrees to acquire Motorola Mobility – Faster Forward – The Washington Post

Google Buys Motorola Mobility For $12.5B, Says “Android Will Stay Open” – TechCrunch

Top three reasons why Google is buying Motorola ~ This Blog Rocks

» One small step for Google… a giant leap for Android- AndroidZoom Blog

Patents, devices, control over phone design, etc. It seems they try to do an Apple.

Added this to Twitizer today:

• When someone rates your message a reply tweet is sent a la “I gave twitizer.com/xxxxx the rating n” (see Twitizer Blog – Rating tweet) . Comments are already handled the same way.
• When a user logs in to Twitizer for the first time a tweet is sent, a la “I’ve started using Twitizer, that makes it easy to share my experiences. See twitizer.com for more information.”.

Google+ games attacks the heart of Facebook’s revenues (poll) – VentureBeat

Google’s Nerds Bring Angry Birds — and More — to Google+ – Epicenter – Wired.com

Google+ Platform Blog

Please note: “We chose to start with a small number of partners so that we could experiment, get the kinks out of our APIs, and get real end-user feedback before opening up to the world.”

Weta – Rivendell

Apart from the beauty of this upcoming model of Rivendell, leading edge technology was used to make it.

Read the “making of” for how it was done.

“It was decided to produce the finer tower structures with Rapid prototyping and the finest quality is a wax printer.”

Personal Computers- A History of the Hardware That Changed the World

IBM- ‘PCs going the way of the typewriter’ – Telegraph

Tech Icons Reflect on PC’s 30th Anniversary – PCMag.com

It’s mobile TV – but not necessarily as we first imagined it – AnalystXpress – the Juniper Resea

We didn’t get mobile TV via dedicated infrastructure and technology. Instead the existing data network infrastructure is used. Well, thanks for that. That’s clearly the way to go, and I don’t see any future for dedicated TV infrastructure. Spend the money on faster data networks instead. All types of data transfer gains from that.

Perceptive Pixel Outs 82- 1080p Multi-Touch Display – HotHardware

An 82” TV would be very nice (my 50” TV doesn’t quite cut it for movies), and this one has multitouch too, to work as an interactive display. It’s just a bit pricy.

This is what I’d like to see as a future replacement for whiteboards?

This explains in part why Galaxy Tab is not allowed to be sold in Europe, for the time being at least.

Samsung- ‘all necessary measures’ in Apple tablet wars – Telegraph

This is the smallest Arduino-based design so far.

Make your own 1-x1- 22 I-O pin Ardunio Compatible

When you think about it (provided you know what Arduino is about) the micro controller takes care of most things in the design, and power supply, USB etc can be taken out. Consequently, there’s not much more than a surface-mounted micro controller on the PCB.

For obvious reasons it’s not pin-compatible with any existing Arduino board, but this could e.g. be used in small battery-powered control/sensor solutions with a tiny custom board.

Yet a disclaimer: “This looks hard, can I just buy one? You should just buy an Arduino Pro-Mini. Unless you want to buy about 500, it will be cheaper. There are some differences see the last step for a comparison.”

It’s obviously always been a revenue stream for lawyers, but it seems media companies could jump on this bandwagon too to increase revenue if this goes well.

200,000 BitTorrent Users Sued In The United States