Those outdated billboards in Google Street View are not just outdated, but they’re an opportunity for Google, who has filed a patent entitled “Claiming Real Estate in Panoramic or 3D Mapping Environments for Advertising,”. The patent should allow them to cut out billboards shown in Street View and replace them with their own current ads.

Apparently this would be done by working with whoever owns the space. For instance a theater owner could keep the posters out front up to date at all times. We can’t think

The creative minds at Ion have recently announced a new product named ‘iType’. The product holds your iPhone firmly in place, and converts it into a mini workstation of sorts. Note the full QWERTY keyboard in all its glory. The idea here is to give iPhone users a full QWERTY keyboard to punch out notes, emails, whatever… and is clearly aimed at the power-user in need of a full keyboard to jam out emails at full speed.

As simple and easy-to-use as the iType looks, there are

The UL30Vt-X1 by ASUS was universally recognized as the best choice of laptop from those that feature Intel’s CULV technology. It features a Core 2 Duo processor and a switchable GPU. Consumers expressed disappointment by two aspects of the device though – the lack of color options, and the very short battery life, compared to other laptops of its class.

If you decided not to buy it for either of these reasons, you’ll be delighted to hear that ASUS have put up the new UL30Vt-A1 on Amazon, and they seem

Are you looking for some extra screen real estate on your laptop? Instead of upgrading to a larger laptop, why not just park another screen next to the one you already use? The Cinq is a 10-inch USB monitor that you can hang on the side of your screen, giving you some extra space.

It’s not just a screen, it also has an SD card reader attached. Sure it looks like a rear view mirror for laptops, but it could come in handy. It will be released in the third quarter of this year for

Close on the heels of giving us an update on using AMD chips in its X100 e and Edge series ThinkPads, Lenovo has revealed an update on a handful of new devices that would use Intel’s new mobile Core i5 and the four-core i7 processors. Set for debut on January 7, the prices are expected to start at $999.

The first among these new devices would be the W510 mobile workstation, which is seen as switching on to a new 15.6-inch LED-lit screen. It would also be presented as a device with multi-touch input and a color calibrator.

As we told you yesterday, Google took a stand against the Chinese government by refusing to censor their search results. Well, it looks like some citizens are already in mourning.

Chinese citizens have been placing flowers on the Google logo as if it were a gravestone. And it just may be if the Chinese government decides they don’t like Google’s stance.

[Gizmodo]

We’ve all played with and love (or hate) multitouch, and multitouch support probably one of the first things people ask when faced with touchscreen devices nowadays. So far multitouch has mostly been confined to mobile phones and similar gadgets (aside from a few notebooks here and there), but could it become an integral part of an office suite in the future? An article from the NY Times indicates that Apple has been busy working on a multitouch version of iWork, and this could mean that Apple could be envisioning its iSlate tablet

According to a recent study conducted by the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), there are only about 2 million users in the country actively (at least once a month) accessing Internet through their mobile phones and other mobile devices.

The association goes on suggesting that about 27% of all mobile phones — which translates into 127 million people — have an Internet-ready mobile device. Furthermore, out of this number, only 9.4% (12

Guru’board introduces the Miniguru mechanical keyboard that is designed to keep you fingers always on the home row, which means the index fingers resting on the F and J keys. The keyboard is customizable and buyers can configure their own keyboard including selecting the mechanical keyboard switches, clicky, tactile or linear, they prefer. Users can also change the keyboard layout and store changes permanently in the firmware of the Miniguru.

The compact Miniguru includes also a “Pointing Stick” that helps keep

If you have an iPhone, it probably goes with you everywhere. But how many places do you take a cable to charge it? Since the iPhone is notorious for having less than spectacular battery life, it’s generally good to have a way to get extra juice to it when needed. Scosche was showing off their latest iPhone/iPod charge and sync cable at CES, which should be easy to keep on your person at all times.

The flipSYNC looks very much like an ordinary fob that you might have on your keychain. However, hidden within are two ends of a