T-Mobile Announces Official Samsung Vibrant Release

It seems as though all the rumors going are true. As of about 40 minutes ago T-Mobile officially released the launch date for the Samsung Vibrant / Galaxy S. This super slim and sleek phone has awesome features like an amazingly large and bright AMOLED 4″ screen for viewing things like the pre-installed Avatar movie and On-Demand TV brought to you by MobiTV. In addition to that, the phone is powered by a Hummingbird processor which is currently the fastest processor on the market for Android phones. It also has an awesome in flight internet browsing feature to occupy your time during those long, boring  flights and if you’re a game junkie it comes pre-loaded with The Sims 3 collector edition not to mention you have access to the thousands of downloads from the Android Market. For those people who love to read, it also comes preloaded with the Kindle for Android so you can keep on reading to your hearts content.

With a phone like this that has something for everyone from movies, to books, and games that is all for a mere $199.99, what more could you ask for in ever so essential life line?? Get your hands on it July 21st, I know I will be!!

Android Gets Firefox

Yesterday, Firefox decided to make it’s first step into the Android world (finally!) According to Co-Founder of RocketHub and Firefox engineer, Vladimir Vukićević’s blog; Firefox released a pre-alpha version of its Android powered browser which is being called Fennec.

Kevin Rose of Digg Kills DiggBar

Without being in office more than one day, Digg’s new acting CEO Kevin Rose takes charge and removes the DiggBar. The original Digg founder announced that Digg is undergoing some major changes for the good.

Update: Google Drops China By April

The rumors that were mentioned in our earlier post about Google leaving China for good, appear to be true. According to Bloomberg news report that references a China Business Newspaper, Google is said to officially announce its removal from China On March 22, this Monday. In that announcement will most likely be that they intend to be completely out of China by April 10th.

Google’s former financial controller for the Asia Pacific region has said that if they do pull out, it would be an irreparable ”burnt bridge” and there will be no chance of Google ever returning to China.

Google Launches Buzz Widget For Android

Google’s Blog announced not too long ago that they just released the new Google Buzz Widget in the Android Market. The widget allows you to post with just a single touch of a button. You can also choose to attach your location and a photo, then simply tap post and the photo will upload in the background. Google says that currently it’s only available in English but will come out with additional languages in the future.

Motorola Delays Droid 2.1 Update

Verizon confirmed that the long-awaited Droid 2.1 OS update will be delayed until further notice. Apparently, a bug was found in the system during testing late last night.

The update that was due to be released today to Droid users includes Yahoo! Mail support, Pinch to Zoom on Maps, Browsers, and Galleries, Speech-to-Text, Preloaded Google Goggles, and a 3D Gallery application that shows both images taken and images in Picasa web albums.

Google Drops Censorship In China

Sensitive websites such as the Tiananmen Square democracy, Tibet, and regional independence movement which are normally filtered, were able to be viewed through Google China on Tuesday in Beijing. This following a statement made by Google saying they would no longer abide by Beijing’s censorship regulations.

Is it possible Google has dropped censorship for their Chinese search engine?

According to Google China filtering is still active on the search engine and they insist their policies have not changed. But for the people of Beijing, I’m sure that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Facebook Takes #1 Spot In Most Visited

According to  Hitwise Facebook took the number one spot as the most visited site last week, taking away Google’s title of Most Visited site in the US. Facebook, which increased visits by 185% in comparison to the same week in 2009 as opposed to the mere 9%  increase of visitors to Google. Facebook has previously held the top spot on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Day as well as the weekend of March 6th and 7th. Both sites accounted for 14% of all US internet visits last week.

Twitter Officially Enables Geolocation

This morning Twitter co-founder and CEO, Biz Stone officially announced its newest Geolocation feature. While this feature has been available on Twitter’s API since last November, it was introduced to the site late last night to all of those individuals who don’t happen to use the API. As with most features similar to the geolocation, it is optional; so if you want your location to be posted along with your tweets, you have to opt-in through your Account Settings. Once you’ve enabled the feature you can choose to always show your location or to only attach it to individual tweets you share. Geolocation also allows you to either share you’re exact coordinates, neighborhood or town.