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The Wall Street Journal says Google Android Phone won't ship till fourth quarter. It's not really news - Google's been saying for a while that they won't ship until the second half of the year - which still has the fourth quarter in it, doesn't it? There's interesting stuff about the carriers in this article though.

The latest presidential debate is taking place on Twitter. It's great that the candidates are reaching out to the tech world - but 140 characters seems like it wll reduce rather than enhance the dialog.

Network Solutions - remember them? I did a story on their nasty habit of domain tasting. Now they've changed their tune and say it's a terrible abuse. But they claim they've always been against it. I guess they just forgot.

There are now over a billion computers being used in the world. And there'll be two billion in 6 years. What happens when we're finished with them?

Young people in the UK are using Google Earth to find homes with swimming pools, then organizing flash mobs via social networks to take a dip. It's like the reverse of the kids in SoCal during the 70s looking for empty pools to skateboard in.

The Scottish Parent Teacher Council think that Wikipedia is to blame for students failing classes. There's a lot of wrong information on their, and nobody's verifying it. Maybe kids need to learn not to trust everything they read on the web?