Seth Weintraub

Twitter's search function is great for finding out what is happening at this very moment. It's so great that and Bing have added the results to their search results and, in the process, given Twitter its first revenue source (more $ are coming).

Today, Google announced that it would be searching across the whole Twitter archive.

People of Lava, a Swedish startup, have announced an Android-powered TV, dubbed 'Scandinavia'. Set to ship later this year, the HDTV resembles the AppleTV interface in many ways but adds additional features that Apple users have been after.

The numbers this week from two separate sources seem to indicate that Apple's iPhone may not be the runaway success that the iPod was and Apple shouldn't soon expect it to own a majority of the market.

Who's in the way? Android.

Google left China yesterday and will stop censoring its Chinese search results. While it is a monster step for the world's biggest search engine, it doesn't mean the end of the world for Google in China.

First of all, they only really left "mainland China." If you go to Google.cn, you'll be redirected to the Chinese language Google Hong Kong. Google is still in Hong Kong, China's Special Administrative region, where the "One Country, Two Systems" capitalist rule of law governs the land. You don't need to censor results in Hong Kong. Not yet anyway.

The New York Times last night revealed that Google, in partnership with device manufacturer Sony and peripherals manufacturer Logitech, were working on a 'GoogleTV'.

Yes, it is exactly what it sounds like and probably inevitable for the company that knows no bounds in their reach for the digital consumer.

Richard DeVaul's Linkedin status changed last month from Founder & President at AWare Technologies to Senior Prototype Engineer at Apple, Inc. This is a significant hire for Apple and one that shows the company is looking far ahead into the future of mobile computing.

DeVaul has a background in wearable technologies as you can see from his personal homepage, as well as a PhD. in Media Arts & Sciences from MIT. At MIT, he worked on new human-computer interaction techniques for wearable, mobile, and portable applications.

In a word, yes, although most people may just choose to bring their iPads when they drive rather than leave one mounted in the car.

That's not to say some car manufacturers aren't considering tablet-like interfaces for cars. The Tesla Model S will have a large touchscreen device at the center of its dashboard (pictured below with Google Maps).

My current computer configuration is hooking up a 13-inch MacBook Pro to a 30-inch monitor and using a wireless keyboard and mouse with it. It works OK, but lately I've been craving some more speed. And some more RAM. And faster disk access. And a better video card than the embedded Nvidia 9400M video.

But what are my Mac options? I could have bought a larger, faster MacBook Pro with SSD and discrete graphics card for more money. Honestly though, I like the 13-inch MacBook Pro's form factor for travel (even though I could easily lose the DVD drive). And what's done is done. So what are my options now?

There is a furor today over the App Store's recent policy of kicking out "sexy" apps (NSFW link), save for those from big companies like Playboy and SportsIllustrated.

Giving big companies the ability to show skin while cutting out small developers seems a little hypocritical, but it also gives Apple some problems next month when the iPad and its iBookstore is released.

First of all, I must say I like the design of the new Windows Phone 7 Series OS (but what a horrible name!). It is very ZuneHD-like which in my experience has been a quick, minimalist OS. Gizmodo had a chance to play with it and were smitten. Microsoft boasts of Facebook and Twitter integration right into your "People" contacts list.

It integrates your photo albums into Facebook and gives you a feed of your friends' status updates. Don't forget Xbox Live.

Apple released Pro level Photo editing and organizing application Aperture 3 last week promising the "faces and places" of consumer level iPhoto as well as some new high end features that professionals could use.

What a lot of those Pro users got, unfortunately, was a frozen computer and an "out of disk space" warning.

Ever since the MacBook Air, a machine made for 3G wireless access, was released without built-in ability to connect to mobile wireless, I've been waiting for Apple to put 3G access in their laptops.

Will my wait be over soon?