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Link: Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please)

Patent troll:

“Dear website owner, congratulations on your excellent site, which includes features covered by our registered patent, #5,251,294. As the description indicates, many of the components on your pages, particularly your menus, rollover images, and shortcuts, are detailed in our claim. We would be delighted to lease these to you at a reasonable royalty rate of $80,000. Please call our offices at your convenience to arrange a payment schedule.”

Link: Angry Birds addicts crash GetJar site

I was one of them….

Android users eager to play Rovio’s free Angry Birds game have toppled the servers at GetJar

Link: Bloomberg Game Changers: Steve Jobs

Oct. 14 (Bloomberg)

Through interviews with friends, former colleagues and business associates, GAME CHANGERS reveals the many layers of the intensely private Steve Jobs – his style of leadership, management and creative process. Interviews include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, former Apple CEO John Scully, journalist turned Venture Capitalist Michael Moritz, Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, former Apple “Mac Evangelist” and Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, Guy Kawasaki and Robert X.Cringely, technology journalist and former Apple employee.

Link: Android TweetDeck 1.0: Ready for Market

Link: Choice Mobile

I guess I should link to the company that we launched this week: Choice Mobile.

We’re 2degrees’s first authorised dealer and we’ve opened offices in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, with Queenstown on the way soon.

Link: Look! Savoury Broccoli Cupcakes

I’m a fan of Broccoli so these look awesome to me.

Link: Trouble In Clever Domain Land: Bit.ly And Others Risk Losing Theirs Swift.ly

This is the big risk with domain shortening services. Twitter (along with Twitter clones) is the only service that actually needs a URL shortening service due to the space constraints of a tweet. The fact that Twitter hasn’t had this functionality built in to the service from day one shows how poorly planned the service was. Even today, it’s not obvious how to use Twitter’s own URL shortening service, so we still have to rely on 3rd party services.

Link: Facebook Now Allows You To “Download Your Information”

Exactly as the title says.

Link: Motorola Droid Pro, first hands-on!

Motorola’s BlackBerry? The freshly-announced Moto Droid Pro’s keyboard feels like it, to be sure, and after trying it out, we believed the Motorola rep who told us they tested comparable speeds of 37WPM in several focus groups. But that’s definitely Android under the hood, paired with a nice, responsive capacitive touchscreen and a 1GHz processor that sped through the UI. Check it out in our gallery below while we go find out more!

Link: Here comes Google TV – Google TV Blog

You can get a sneak peek of some of these apps in the video below…