• first Google launched a music search feature with a number of providers, including Lala and (the now-closed) iMeem.
• second Apple bought Lala partly because of this competition, and Google now uses iLike, Rhapsody and Pandora.
• third Losing their key service, Google said screw it and is now building its own music service. It’s all-out war now. source

• Main difference? It uses Windows 7. Eww. This little device, launched in a limited edition to celebrate Toshiba’s 25th anniversary in the laptop market, has more laptop in its DNA than tablet, though it definitely has aspects of both. Windows 7 just does not seem like the OS for a device like this, though. At least it’s not Windows Vista. source

• Pakistan’s deputy attorney general is pushing for his prosecution. Why? Because he allowed “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” to take place on his site. Despite the fact that it was blocked in Pakistan by Facebook and is no longer an issue. He’s seriously trying to get Interpol involved. This is beyond stupid. It’s like arresting Alexander Graham Bell because someone tried to make an offensive phone call, isn’t it? Zuckerberg simply can’t control his users. Nor should he. source

• YES Sprint is looking pretty good this time of year source

• The worst part of uploading video to YouTube wasn’t the uploading itself, but the editing. It took time to edit and forced you to use a separate interface and separate program. Cloud-friendly Google couldn’t just let this happen, right? So, now, they’ve finally added video-editing to the site, making it significantly more useful for regular users who want to take their Flip or iPhone 4 videos and throw them on the Web quickly. source

• $850
  million amount AOL spent on Bebo, a Facebook wannabe, when they bought it two years ago
• chump
  change amount AOL likely sold Bebo for today; it was a terrible investment for the company source

Knight News Challenge Winners, In Brief from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.

• From small news projects to ambitious advertising products, there’s some cool stuff here. Among the winners of this year’s Knight News Challenge – which means that the Knight Foundation gives tech-leaning journalists money to chase their dreams – are the Windy Citizen (which has a pretty cool real-time ads platform), CityTracking (which hopes to make city visualizations interesting and embeddable), The Cartoonist (which hopes to make editorial cartoon games), and LocalWiki (which is seriously the kind of idea we’ve heard bandied about more than a few times). Oh, and lots more. Check out the video and the full list to get the scoop. source

• 600k iPhones 4s sold in the first day of online pre-orders (whoa)
• 10x more early demand for the phone than last year’s iPhone 3GS
• no of course they didn’t give Gizmodo any freaking credit source

• YES good luck getting a pre-order before July 2 source