Google will be holding a press event next Wednesday, February 2, at its Mountain View headquarters to show off Android Honeycomb, the company’s tablet-optimized OS.
The invitation, which just landed in our inboxes, asks us to join the search giant “for an in-depth look at Honeycomb, Android ecosystem news and hands-on demos.” The stage presentations will begin at 10:00 a.m. PT. Google is calling it the event “A Taste of What’s New from Android.”

Facebook for Android has been upgraded to version 1.5.1, bringing access to Facebook Deals and fixing a number of bugs.
Deals, which are only available in the U.S. at this time, show up when you check into a place, with the surrounding places displaying a yellow icon if they offer deals.
Unfortunately, Android’s fragmentation rears its ugly head here, as many of the comments on the official Facebook post complain about bugs not being fixed, new bugs appearing or some features going missing – depending on what version of Android the commenters use.

While we're always using our brains, we're not necessarily doing much to keep them in good shape. Here are the top ten sites and tools to train your brain and exercise your mental muscles.

Pixiq has a great write up on the similarities and differences between the our eye and a camera. Apparently, we're the same in image focusing and light adjustment but different in lens focus and sensitivity to light. What else?

 

 

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The Sony PSP2 has arrived under the codename NGP. It has a 5-inch OLED touchscreen, dual analog sticks, front/rear cameras,a touch-sensitive panel on the back of the device used for control along with a quad-core CPU and GPU.

“The Social Network Addiction” was the topic of discussion at a panel in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.
The panel, which was moderated by Loïc Le Meur, the founder and CEO of Seesmic, included Google’s Vice President of Search Marissa Mayer, professor and author Clay Shirky, Linkedin Executive Chairman and founder Reid Hoffman, the Archbishop of Dublin,

Sony India has launched the new Vaio YB range of notebooks based on AMD Vision CPU and GPU platforms, at a price tag starting Rs. 26,990 plus taxes.
Sporting a 11.6-inch display the Vaio YB is available in three colors of pink, silver and green.
The entry-level model comes with the AMD E-350 1.6GHz processor with Radeon HD 6310 graphics. It supports up to 4GB RAM, and ships with 500GB HDD.
The new range will be available across all Sony Centers and major large format outlets from February 2011 onwards.

Egypt Government decided to ban Twitter.com in Egypt on 25 January due to its role in dissemination of the revolutionary ideology among Egyptians.
Although Facebook has a similar or may be larger role, it have not yet been banned, however some news sources claim that it will be banned during the coming hours.

Cleaning through my disks, and found some old renders from an unfinished animation.

We are starting to see commercials for the iPhone 4 from Verizon Wireless.  Even Apple shows how lovely both the AT&T and Verizon iPhone 4s are performing an app waltz together.

An iPhone commercial on YouTube, with the Blue Danube in the background, shows an AT&T iPhone and an Verizon iPhone performing the same steps and apps - each ending with two FaceTime video callers waving to each other.

There's a reason why the Concorde only few over the Atlantic Ocean: Sonic booms. If every airplane were supersonic, it'd be extremely noisy and annoying. Fortunately, NASA is working in a solution.

What are Phytonutrients?

Phytonutrients are nutrients derived from plant material that have been shown to be necessary for sustaining human life. Phytochemicals are non-nutritive plant chemicals that contain protective, disease-preventing, compounds. Their role in plants is to protect plants from disease, injuries, insects, drought, excessive heat,

Shortly after CEO Dennis Crowley spoke at Europe’s DLD conference Monday, Foursquare announced that more than 6 million people have registered a Foursquare account. In addition, the company released an infographic celebrating its impressive growth in 2010.

eBay is out with its latest earnings report, and with it, some intriguing numbers about just how big of a role mobile commerce is starting to play in its business.
Overall, eBay’s revenue for 2010 hit $9.1 billion, $5.7 billion of which came from eBay’s marketplace business (from $53 billion worth of goods sold) and $3.4 billion of which came from PayPal transaction fees (from $91 billion worth of transactions).

Tired of dealing with wires to charge your mobile device? The Energizer Inductive Charger lets you place your iPhone or Blackberry on its shiny black surface, where it immediately begins charging wirelessly.
Energizer’s $89 inductive charging station has been available for a few months, and the company’s been working on the various sleeves that must be placed on devices so they can work with it. So far, there’s a sleeve for the iPhone 3G and 3GS, a replacement door for the BlackBerry Curve 8900, and now,

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Tired of dealing with wires to charge your mobile device? The Energizer Inductive Charger lets you place your iPhone or Blackberry on its shiny black surface, where it immediately begins charging wirelessly.
Energizer’s $89 inductive charging station has been available for a few months, and the company’s been working on the various sleeves that must be placed on devices so they can work with it.

On February 2nd around 4 a.m., the Internet will run out of its current version of IP addresses. At least that’s what one Internet Service Provider is predicting based on a rate of about one million addresses every four hours.
Hurricane Electric has launched Twitter and Facebook accounts that count down to what it has termed the “IPcalypse.”