New Kindle is a winner with everything improved. Steve Ballmer moaning about Apple sales. 170,000,000 Facebook users data in the wild. Win Phone 7 reviews mostly positive. Motorola Android sales saving the company. Hacker finds code to make ATM machines cough out money. Android will win the mobile OS wars. iPhone costs more than Droids to make. UK clears Google on Wi-Fi theft.

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MSFT moaning about Yahoo Japan. Black Hat event underway with cool discoveries. 3D a theme with Panasonic as the company brings out a camera and camcorder with 3D capability. Plankton is dying! Verizon users use more data than anyone else. Why? I have a theory.

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 Mac OSX 10.6.4 now out for new iMacs. Apple shows magic trackpad. Apple begs people to not Jailbreak phones. Google does backdoor deal with Yahoo Japan. Dell Streak delayed, kind of. Gamestop buys online games company. Good idea. Laser chips added to silicon for faster network. Droid-X is in shortage. AT&T doing Win Phone 7. Nobody will pay for Twitter. Climate change means Mexicans will come to USA. nVidia loses to Rambus. One million ebooks sold by author. Black Hat and Defcon coming to the news cycle.

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IPhone jailbreaking is legal, but Apple does not care. New Google cloud targeting gov’t security needs. This is a dead end. AT&T goes Wi-Fi to bolster 3G and 4G networks. What? UAE says Smartphones may be a security threat. Hmmm. CTIA suing SF over dumb law. Hadron collider is obsolete? Chat roulette has issues. EU going after IBM once more. IPv6 back in the discussion. Infoworld muses about Perl 6.

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Microsoft making nothing but money. Stock languishes. Company will give away 90,000 phones to its own employees. Facebook CEO could lose company? What? AT&T making money thanks to Apple. Female users are clueless with Facebook says survey. IBM mainframes are boring but profitable. Droid 2.2 coming shortly. Stonehenge II found! Crazy new app locks your car. Nook app helps Android. Java can be huge.

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Over 800 stories about the friggin’ antenna. Windows shell has a huge messed up vulnerability. iPad being rolled out in the EU and Mexico this week. Facebook declares 500 million users. Netflix going instant in Canada. Foursquare wants its data shared with the search engines. IBM all over the news. IBM news elaborate and confusing. HP likes Foxconn. Amazon says kindle books outselling hardcovers. Wow.

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iPhone 4 news dominating things because of the antenna. Free bumpers for everyone. The phone still has connection issues. Google buys Metaweb. Droid Smartphones all different. Stop the presses! The Gizmodo search warrant has been withdrawn. What a nightmare. The Nexus One is now kaput. Look for Nexus Two. Video games slumping, hardware surging. NASA kills moon program altogether. Comic Con coming. Everyone wanted to buy Palm. Who knew?

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Droid-X looks good. Google earnings not up to par. WSJ says Apple know of the iPhone antenna glitch. Old Spice making a comeback. Verizon joins with junkware? Mercury flyby shows planet Mercury has huge magnetic field. HP needs to ditch Android tablet sez expert. Microsoft to co-fund dev work on Phone 7. 11.6-inch Mac Book Air coming? Apple buying small tech companies. Zynga killing it.

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Bing gaining market share says the experts. Too many stories at once. I’m suspicious. 12 Russian spy at Microsoft!  The company will be financing WinPhone7 apps. Instant charging batteries. Apple gets in to mapping. Android sales continue to swell. Chicken and egg mystery cracked. Music in the cloud coming soon. RIM to make comeback. Hot new Sony NEX camcorder kicks it.

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Google codeless App Inventor getting attention. MSFT now selling cloud services to others. I hear eBay will be testing it. HTC EVO 4G phones taking forever to ramp. RIM to do Blackberry tablet? Google buying into Zynga. I have a Google profile! So? Facebook adds panic button for dummies. US Senator worried about doomsday. Acoustic fibers can sing!

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YouTube mobile takes off. New iPOD Touch revealed. NSA to be monitoring the power grid. Facebook lawsuit woes. Are women addicted to Facebook? Answer: yes. AT&T limits iPhone fun. MSFT Kin to disappear. I predict it will be gone from the timeline. 3D Camera coming. Twitter to become the next Google? How?

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Microsoft getting a lot of bad PR. Apparently cutting jobs again. Kins death at issue too. Xbox meanwhile looking good with $1B sales or so. Chipmakers running with the bulls. Samsung looking good. New Charm phone getting attention. Mozilla 4.0 has a new GUI. Best Buy getting into the wireless broadband service act. Germany going after Facebook. The EU is going after Google. For what?

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Good Crankygeeks today. www.crankygeeks.com MSFT kills Kin! That was fast! IPhone still holding lead over all Android devices. Sony Vaio burning people? Half a million recalled. Verizon LTE plus iPhone. Hulu debate ongoing. Flying car news continues. Cisco doing a tablet. Why? Flying car in the news one more day. 70,000 turtle eggs at risk. Kindle books give better royalty. HTC EVO is $200. Android 3.0 in the works. One analyst says do not get excited by Windows 8.

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Hulu starts paid service. Google backing off on China threats. Verizon iPhone coming in Jan 2011. Apple being sued over antenna issue. Weird story about iPhone Facetime. Windows 8 outlined. Flying car coming out for sure! Dell sold faulty computers. Seagate has 3TB drive. Where is the new Hotmail? MSFT Kin phone a flop?

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Nintendo 3DS comes in March 2011, not this Christmas. Father of digital images want to make them better. How much better can they be? Social media up but by how much? Seems like a low number. Antenna patch coming from Apple. Weird. I thought there was no problem. Google trying another social media initiative. What about Orkut II. Bag of parts in the iPhone4 is $188.  .XXX good to go, for now. Salesforce digs up a Microsoft enemy. Guess who! Google Chrome beating Apple Safari.

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iPhone aftermath. In one day the company sold 1.5 million phones. The company admits there are antenna issues. Actor Jason Bateman boo’d for cutting in line for iPhone. Looks like .xxx domain getting approved. Salesforce suing Microsoft. Microsoft suing Salesforce. Cool eclipse coming up tomorrow. Nintendo wins the E3 show. Facebook going after Google in search. Will Steve Jobs testify before Congress? Win 7 SP1 in the wild. Nokia loses Symbian guy. Wait until you hear the stats on YouTube. Wow.

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People waiting in bread line to get an iPhone 4. The phone has apparent strange connection problems. Is the white one resolved? Apple iOS4 getting too much ink. Twitter gives in to the FTC over breaches. RIM making more money, may do buy back. Android 2.2 coming fast to Droids. Zune needs re-introduction. Developers looking at Android. Google deletes apps on your phone? HP going to take on the iPhone. I laugh at that.

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White iPhone having manufacturing issues? I’ll tell you exactly what the real problem is. Apple iOS4 already hacked. Looks like Droid X is the big winner for Motorola. And Droid gets flash! Google being investigated in the UK for WiFi violations. Meanwhile, Android maps upgraded to give you transit info. Bing pushing entertainment. Still no match for Google. SF traffic messed up by Russian President. Firefox crashes. Who knew? New SanDisk WORM SD card may be a hot ticket.

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