Snippets for Wednesday!

Wow, today Google dominates our picks, as well as a guy who used Twitter to inform the world he is still alive, while his Afghan captors where watching.

Yes he did.

Read more below! (And remember to vote…)

Google doodle: new grey design deepens logo mystery

Another day, another Google doodle. This is the second day that Google used an interactive doodle on their homepage. I find it a bit odd that they are only doing this on the Google.co.uk homepage, at least as far as I can tell.

Read about the “deepening mystery” over at the Telegraph.

Google TV to launch in autumn

Remember we linked to a story on Google taking on iTunes by December? Well it seems that there are plans for Google TV to launch even sooner than that.

Exciting stuff.

Have a read at the TELEGRAPH.co.uk

Google can interpret your conversation

Wow, a lot of Google stories here.

This one brings news that with an Android phone you can have a delayed conversation with a person that does not speak your language.

It uses a translation server at Google, so you will have to be connected to the Internet for it to work, and it does not work for phonecalls. Yet.

Read at INDIATIMES.com

HP sues to block former CEO Mark Hurd from going to Oracle

Dear HP. You railroad the dude, and now he gets a new job and you want to stop him from getting it? C’mon, give a guy a break.

Via USA TODAY

Japan journalist tricked Afghan captors with Twitter

This guy has nuts of Titanium. In front of his captors he sends two twitter messages from a phone stating he is alive and also his location.

Props to you dude.

Via Google News

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