@herosp: Here at Google, we have a variety of mechanisms to make your Maps experience the most useful and enjoyable of any online map provider. Teams of technicians are strategically placed all around the country to add your points of interest where you want them, when you want them.

@devoidmeat: A version number change hardly makes news in my book, I assume it'll still be the same product. Though I guess it indicates that there will not be sweeping UI changes, so some people may be disappointed about that. Just hoping hardware UI acceleration makes it.

This falls into the same category as outlawing incandescent bulbs: a good idea, but hardly something the US government should be involved in. You can't solve everything with a new regulation.

@DavidWrightstuff: I would tend to disagree with your final statement, though I agree that the behavior of this attack is inconsistent with any that the United States government would launch.

@combatshotgun: Wow, and this guy was only afraid of tearing a hole in foreign relations. Nice job.

@goodwood8: No, you're not. It was a great product, especially compared to the E-mail of today. I'm just glad Apache picked it it up and is putting in some good work on it.

@joeCommenter: Yes, that's exactly correct. I'm a Verizon marketer whose job is to find comment threads on electronics sites relating to my company's network and post pro-Verizon materials there. Not meaning being disparaging to Giz at all, but this is hardly an expansive customer base I'd be hitting if that were the…

@devoidmeat: Android 3.0 as we know right now is a separate project, aimed at adding enhanced support for tablet form factors among other things. That one's referred to as Honeycomb. There's a nice list on Wikipedia's Android article listing confirmed and expected features for Gingerbread, so you can look there for…

@chefgon: This problem was already present in compensating for the myriad of different themes present across android platforms. I am not familiar with android app development, and in particular the icon creation process, but is it possible to define icons as areas with "primary color" and "secondary color", having…

@joeCommenter: Don't bother quibbling with definitions. HSPA+ is about as fast as WiMAX is about as fast as LTE. It's all "next-gen" mobile networking, and I'd be dandy with any of them coming into contact with my house.

@MVarga: Sure, the news is interesting, but it doesn't change the fact that we have no evidence that live has existed outside our planet. The reaction of the general populace would be little different if this were in the sixties during the space race era. This is interesting in a scientific sense as it indicates that…

@jodark: There's an ongoing debate as to whether the Allies would have been able to finish the war without the bombs, and the tendency is to believe that yes, they would have. The judgement was made that the lives of American soldiers were more valuable than Japanese civilians, which is of dubious morality.

@chuck07: Have one master router, then have fiber running between houses. Have these hook up to routers within each house, which will be setup to be separate LANs. Everyone keeps their security, assuming no one is screwing with the master router.

@verspasian: To be fair, that's partly because Google has the good sense not to filter Market apps. But yes, the Android "homebrew" developer community is one of the strongest I've seen.

It really is a pity that Google didn't put in some work garnering support from networks BEFORE Google TV was released. If it had support at release time, it would have been awesome. As it stands, however, it lacks the mass-market appeal that internet TVs have potential for.

@AreWeThereYeti: Never have I been so angry at having been offered candy and being told it's real candy.

@DukeOfPwn: They have done this with the Nexus One, and the Evo 4G as well. It's running on the android kernel, but there's a full Ubuntu userland running and to access it you essentially VNC into yourself. The big problem with running it standalone is that the Ubuntu UI is not meant to run on…

@Numanoid: It is short for "applications", sure, but I agree that the term is generally applied to smartphone programs and would do better staying there.

@cmdrfire: 400-foot geyser seems a lot less scary in comparison.

@Vogie: I'm not saying that OnLive is in any way contrary to Microsoft's business model, I am saying that having Microsoft at the reigns would be just about the most surefire way to make sure the platform crashes and burns via iron-fisted control of developers. Remember Team Fortress 2 and how the 360 has got few if…