Sprint’s summer of hot phone releases continues. In addition to the
Palm Pre and just-announced
RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630, the carrier has confirmed that it will offer the HTC Snap on June 21 for $149.99 with a two-year contract. (This news surfaced last week, but I’m just catching up after being out for a couple of days.)

HTC [...]

The sole vice presidential debate of the 2008 election season takes place Thursday night, pitting Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin against Sen. Joe Biden.
See also: Complete coverage of campaign ‘08 from CBS News.
You can check out the post-debate Webcast from the first presidential debate, between John McCain and Barack Obama, here: CBS Webcast: Examining McCain-Obama debate [...]

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Nyko)
At first glance, the new Wing Wireless Classic Controller from Nyko looks like it’s everything the original Nintendo Classic Controller should have been. While the Nintendo controller is oddly rounded, the Wing looks much more ergonomically satisfying with its edgier sides and form factor. It’s almost as if they combined the Nintendo Classic [...]

Google, however, actually posted a 10 percent increase in paid-click growth in the U.S., and a 20 percent jump worldwide, in the first quarter, according to Sandeep Aggarwal, an analyst with Collins Stewart.

Google’s stock closed at $539.41 per share, up $89.87 from the previous day when Google reported after the market’s close its first-quarter earnings [...]

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Samsung)

During the brief period we played with it in Barcelona, it seemed to perform well. A full assessment will come just as soon as we can get our hands on a review model. But in the meantime, check out our Samsung GSMA slide show.

In case you don’t recall, the Soul is an attractive slider [...]

Though Lenovo has been nipping at its heels, Acer’s most direct competition in the U.S. is the two big guys–Hewlett-Packard and Dell. “HP has a lot more experience with consumers and is going to try to defend that turf. It’s a pretty dynamic competitive space all around,” Loverde said.

HP, the worldwide PC leader for more [...]

Again, just as with the other senators, I’m in no way claiming that Senator Hershman’s actions were motivated by the big fat checks he received from AT&T. I am sure that he amended the bill to strip out the parts hated by lobbyists only after carefully considering the issues, and coming to the conclusion that [...]

I asked Jim to comment on how open source can match that, given that open-source communities (as opposed to open-source commercial projects) tend to be comprised of developers who may or may not have a feel for what non-developers want.
Your thoughts?
Surely, there are many things to not learn from Microsoft. Usability, however, is not one [...]

In addition, watermarking could become more popular as online music distributors such as Amazon or Apple’s iTunes move away from DRM restrictions, the report said.

Among the reasons for the growth, according to study author Mark Kirstein, is that companies are trying to monitor the spread of copyrighted files shared over networks or social-networking sites. “Fox [...]

Related: Photophlow puts a fresh face on Flickr
The small downloadable AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) application, which is a semifinalist in this year’s Adobe Design Achievement Awards, lets you plug into your Flickr account and view photos on a virtual canvas. Once it’s pulled in thumbnails, it doesn’t need to do it again (unlike Flickr’s own [...]