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An insider at HP tells us that a webOS tablet under the code name HP Hurricane could be released the third quarter of this year.

HP Hurricane webOS tablet may be released in 3rd quarter

I know that phishing – using clever fakes to trick the unsuspecting into revealing their passwords – is a real problem, with real victims. But I just assumed that phishing was someone else’s problem.

Or so I thought, until I got phished last week.

Locus Online Perspectives » Cory Doctorow: Persistence Pays Parasites

Apple has an admirable history of innovation and marketplace performance, but this time the company and Mr. Jobs are drawing attention for all the wrong reasons. Everyone knows that it is his show, his call. But in engaging the long arm of the law on behalf of his corporate interests, Mr. Jobs may lead us to think, um, differently about Apple’s growing cultural dominance.

The Media Equation – A Lost iPhone Reveals Apple’s Churlish Side – NYTimes.com

It would seem both surprising and remarkably underhanded, even considering the probable involved parties, to undertake constructing a patent pool for some product without ever consulting the vendor of that product: Surely no good faith effort to construct a valid and usable patent pool for a codec could be undertaken without contacting the developers of the codec.

I’ Been to Ubuntu: Lead OGG Dev Responds to Jobs’ Jabs

This is one for the “I Find This Rumor Extremely Hard to Believe” file: Michael Arrington of TechCrunch is reporting that a source has told him that HP has decided to cancel its “slate PC.

Is HP’s Slate Dead?

REDMOND, Wash. — April 27, 2010 — Microsoft Corp. and HTC Corp. have signed a patent agreement that provides broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for HTC’s mobile phones running the Android mobile platform. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will receive royalties from HTC.

Microsoft Announces Patent Agreement With HTC: Agreement will cover HTC’s Android phones.

The police appear to have gone too far. The REACT team, “a partnership of 17 local, state, and federal agencies” with a “close working partnership with the high tech industry,” seems to have leapt eagerly to Apple’s aid before it looked at the law. Putting the presumed interests of an important local company before the rights guaranteed by law is an obvious occupational hazard for a police force charged with paying particular attention to the interests of high tech businesses.

OverREACTing: Dissecting the Gizmodo Warrant | Electronic Frontier Foundation

[…] without a doubt, Google’s Android software catalog is growing much faster—from 6,000 to 25,000 apps since the beginning of the year. Free phones, and aggressive courting of talented app makers, surely has something to do with it.

Android Tries Harder – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com

Let’s just put this out there: the Droid Incredible is the best Android device that you can purchase in America right now.

Droid Incredible review — Engadget

For 27 years, only one person could use Word at a time,” said Bailor, a Microsoft Word program manager. “It took a lot of really smart people a really long time to develop and deliver something different.

Microsoft Word 2010 Coauthoring Enables Multiple People to Work on a Document at the Same Time: Jonathan Bailor, a Microsoft Word program manager, worked with a team of problem-solvers at the company to bring an end to a 27-year-old issue: how to efficiently collaborate on documents. The resulting tool, coauthoring, will be available in Office 2010.