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today’s tech news post will be very short and sweet. i apologize to the readers who are used to my long, verbose analysis of the ‘goings-on’ in the tech space. my family and i are currently exploring the back alleys of catalunya and i’m sneaking a post in.

as most regular readers probably know, the voice of shaquanda cotton’s ordeal has taken off. keep adding your voice to the comments, her message board, your local branches of government, and the texas governor.

shaquanda. keep hope alive.

first up is an article about a woman who is currently on trial for murdering her husband. the twist in this case is that her search queries in google, including ‘how to commit murder’, are being entered in as evidence. the precedence just goes to show that in this 2.0 world, every keystroke is tied to your daily life.

whether that particular legal case was a direct result of their forthcoming action, google has announced that it will begin to anonymize user’s search. while it may help ease the pains of the privacy advocates who believe google is starting to control all of the world’s information with their 2.5+ gb gmail accounts and cached pages, this step won’t save you from the data saved on your computer. ybp’s take note again. you are being watched, cataloged, stored, and cached.

although two stories about google usually suffice, i have to sneak one last in. rumors have been circulating and it looks like google will officially throw its hat in the ring of the very lucrative ‘do-it-all’ phone market. in direct response to the iphone, a google exec has decided that a ‘google phone’ is needed in the market. can you see your fellow ybp’s walking through a lounge on the 4th with this thing attached to the hip? if it means that we can get ahead by having another ‘do-it-all’ gadget other than the crackberry, i’m all for it.

last, but not least, mr. ‘got damn@ that is a hot beat’ a.k.a. timbaland has teamed up with rockstar games to produce a new project called beaterator. aimed at the untapped creative geniuses walking around in the corporate get-up, the game is a portable version of fruity loops and allows you to create your own soundtrack. it is currently available online and will be coming to the psp. some of you may know that i advocate the psp as nice gadget for the ybp, especially jetsetters. this plethora of sounds and rhythms should bring a nice atmosphere to an already cool gadget. who knows, the next jazzanova slash fusion slash house slash neo-soul hotness may come from tyrone in accounting.