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- On Verizon, the top four phones are Android --- top-rating Droid X, followed by the Droid 2, HTC Incredible, and LG Ally. - On T-Mobile, the top two are Android, the top-rated Samsung Vibrant and the HTC myTouch 3G Slide. - On Sprint, the top three are Android, the top-rated HTC Evo 4G, followed by the Samsung Intercept, and the HTC Hero. On AT&T, the top one is Android, the Samsung Captivate. The iPhone 3G S came in second, followed by the Android-based HTC Aria at number three.

"Call of Duty: Black Ops" blasted entertainment records this week by raking in $360 million in its first 24 hours on sale, a dramatic and lucrative indication that video games have cemented their place as mainstream entertainment on a par with movies, books and music.

Apple Inc.’s iPad and other tablets may not sell as well as analysts had estimated as customers cut back spending on new technology or opt for new smartphones and laptops instead, according to Rodman & Renshaw LLC. Apple, which sold 4.19 million iPads last quarter, may have trouble hitting some analysts’ estimates of 6 million sold in the fourth quarter, said analyst Ashok Kumar, who predicts Cupertino, California-based Apple may sell as few as 5 million of the touch-screen tablets.

In preparation for its any-day-now launch of iOS 4.2, Apple's iTunes media software has notched an incremental improvement to version 10.1. Users who can't wait for automatic Apple updates to occur can download the new version from Apple's iTunes download page.

This user-generated blog started buzzing around the Internet last week, and it’s still going on Monday. Why? Well, it’s basically like Texts From Last Night — but in this case the drunken, slurring idiot is not, in fact, you, but your smartphone (who sometimes seems like it’s out to get you).

Internet researcher danah boyd says that kids are using the super-logoff because they don't want people finding them or friends posting on their walls when they can't be around to respond or take down anything they don't like. A similar trick is the "white wall," where a Facebooker periodically deletes all the comments and posts on his or her wall, making sure only the newest and freshest posts are visible. Combining the super-logoff and the white wall is much more hardcore and much easier to understand than tweaking all those complex Facebook privacy settings.

More than a third of police agencies review applicants' social media activity during background checks, according to the first report on agencies' social media use by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), the largest group of police executives. The report out last month surveyed 728 agencies.

When Paul Chambers was arrested and fined for posting a jocular message to micro-blogging site Twitter in which he threatened to blow up northern England's Robin Hood Airport if it didn't reopen in time for his flight, it caused a minor stir. Now that a court has turned down his appeal, the Internet has come alive with outrage, with thousands of online fans posting comic threats to the regional airport out of solidarity. Many have added the tag "IAmSpartacus" to their posts - a reference to the Stanley Kubrick's 1960 epic "Spartacus," in which the titular hero's fellow rebels all assume his identity in a gesture of solidarity.

News Corporation's president has spoken out publicly against the financial state of social network MySpace, saying that the losses from the social network are 'neither acceptable or sustainable'. MySpace has been put on notice by parent company News Corp, with Chase Carey, News Corp's president, noting MySpace "is a problem" after quarterly losses in its News Corp's digital and other activities increased by $30m to $156m (£97m).

The Obama administration is expected to announce Internet privacy regulations as well as a new position to oversee what would be a more aggressive government involvement with the Internet, according to a published report. The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. Commerce Department will issue the recommendations in coming weeks, though nothing yet has been finalized.

The head of New York City's transit union wants to go after an anonymous blog that has blasted him, and he asked a court Friday to make Google tell him who's responsible. John Samuelsen says in court papers that the blog has repeatedly attacked him with false accusations of incompetence and financial improprieties. The allegations are "being made for no purpose other than to damage my reputation" among union members, Samuelsen said in a sworn statement.

We wondered earlier if Paul Buchheit, who created Gmail at Google and the company slogan, "Don't be evil," was involved in Facebook's imminent launch of an e-mail system billed as a Gmail killer. If he was, he's not anymore. Buchheit is leaving Facebook to join Y Combinator as a partner.

Internet access speeds worldwide, via Akamai. Very interesting.

Facebook may be on the verge of offering e-mail to the 500 million members of its social-networking site, making it the largest e-mail service on the planet. More significantly, the offering could lead to a fundamental transformation of e-mail. Yahoo, Google and Microsoft are already scrambling to retool their e-mail services to build them more around people's social connections. Facebook would have a tremendous advantage because it owns a vast trove of data about people's relationships and would find it easier to graft e-mail onto its existing social services such as photo-sharing.

I just unlocked the "Zoetrope" badge on @foursquare!

Morning Glory reminds me of how much I love broadcasting. (@ Boulevard Cinemas)

RT @newsycombinator: Creators Admit Unix, C Hoax

I just KNOW Leo Laporte’s Up To Something. I am indeed wracked with guilt over all the things I have probably done.

Suppose the prominent links to Google Finance and Health were actually the result of a genuine algorithmic search -- the same process that yields Google's ordinary algorithmic search results. Then, as confirmed through my comma search tool and through collective experience with Google Search, a trailing comma should not change which results are listed.