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Google offers real-time Twitter results. What they're not telling you is that those results are incomplete.

A student at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design named
Laura Boffi invented that view for a vest to be worn by messenger
dogs. The dog would be trained to find public (during a catastrophe, in
the mountains, whatever) and sit in front of them so they can type
their name and record a voice letter (“Send brandy next instance!”). A
GPS device records the location. The dogs thereupon return to where they
started so rescuers get the note.

While some tech products and services have one or two addictive drug-like elements, the iPad has them all. iPad users are speed-balling seven addictive qualities at once. Should the Apple iPad come with a warning label? Should psychologists be studying its effects on folks? Is the iPad dangerous? Should we keep it away from kids? Read the whole story.

Apple today rolled out it's new iPhone OS 4.0 platform, and plus a new program for mobile advertising called iAds. But during a Q&A session, Jobs said: "We tried to buy AdMob, but Google snatched them up considering they didn’t want us to have them, so we bought another smaller company, Quattro." The implication is that Google bought the company out of spite, or as a blocking maneuver, or by paid for the company, and that there was nothing poor little Apple, an advertising "babe in the woods," could do. "Snatched" implies theft or sneaky dealings. Read it here.

Steve Jobs announced today that the next version of the operating system (OS) that powers both the iPhone and the iPad would support multi-tasking. Jobs said the iPhone gets the new OS that summer, and the iPad gets it in the Fall. Jobs additionally said iPhone OS 4.0 would support VoIP. When you combine those capabilities in the iPad 3G, does that convert it into a giant phone? whether so, can I get rid of my iPhone?

We can dispense with any speculation that the HP Slate, a consumer tablet device demoed recently, will enjoy any success at all. Yes, the video looks awesome. But the bottom line is that it's a Windows 7 PC with 1 GB of RAM. It's going to suck. And it has other problems, too. Read the whole story.