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Those cursed limited supplies of the Nexus S have forced the Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy’s UK outlets to push back the phone’s retail debut by a couple of days. The Gingerbread flagship will now be sailing in on the 22nd of December and even then it’ll be available only in “key” stores. Online purchases are encouraged, with an “instant ship delivery” getting the phone out to your nearest Carphone Warehouse branch for collection. Pre-orderers should presumably be getting their handsets on Wednesday too, while the £430 unlocked price has also been confirmed. So it’s still good news, you’ll just have to be either lucky or good to get your hands on one in time for the Queen’s speech.

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We were expecting to see a slew of new Google TV-powered displays and boxes at CES in a couple of weeks, but now The New York Times is reporting the list of new product partners at the show may be much shorter than expected. The cause is reported to be Google’s last minute decision to ask for more time to work on its software first, resulting in no new hardware from LG, Sharp and Toshiba at the show, leaving only Samsung and VIZIO to show off their products. The always popular unnamed sources now peg timing for the next full fledged assault of Google TV hardware as after the company completes updates including the addition of the Android Market some time next year. Of course, Chrome OS and Honeycomb already provide plenty of examples of a disconnect between the good folks at Mountain View and their hardware partners, but with some already casting doubt on the platform’s potential, and the company’s ability to work out licensing deals with Hollywood, it’d be good to see more than last week’s partial facelift as a sign of what is to come.

NYT: Next batch of Google TV devices delayed, pending software updates originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The UK price for the Nexus S just became a whole lot (nearly 22 percent) more attractive, thanks to the Carphone Warehouse slashing the SIM-free purchase option to a sweet £429.99 ($668). Contract-saddled pricing has also taken a tumble, as the Nexus S can now be had for free on two-year agreements costing £30 ($47) per month. Good news all around, then, but be aware that the handset is now listed as being on back order, having been “in stock” earlier in the week. Speaking of delays, we’re also hearing Best Buy’s guaranteed Christmas delivery — something proudly signposted on the Nexus S online order page — might very well miss Santa’s delivery window. A couple of our readers have received emails from the retailer advising them that their Gingerbread packages will be shipped “within the next 1-2 weeks,” but might not get there by December 24th. So happy holidays and best of luck!

[Thanks, Taylor and Rod]

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This article was written on September 08, 2007 by CyberNet.

Weekend Website

Google Trends has proved to be a great way to see what’s hot and what’s not in Google searches. There’s a lot you can learn, particularly with their “Hot Trends” which is compiled daily. It’s also proved to be a great way to analyze search trends as I’ve done today with some of the more popular technology competitors. There’s nothing earth shattering about what I’ve found, but it’s interesting to see who comes out on top as far as searches go.

You’ll notice “markers” on the graphs which correlated with a news article. Often times if there are big spikes where these letter markers are located, it tells us that whatever was in the news that day caused the spike in searches. For example, on the graph showing Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs, the spike that occurred at marker “F” was when the “Fake Steve” jobs was revealed.

Finally, keep in mind that these are search trends based upon Google searches.

–Apple vs. Microsoft–

–iPhone vs. BlackBerry–

–Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs–

–HP vs. Dell–

–MySpace vs. Facebook–

As expected, we see Facebook steadily climbing North!

–Flickr vs. Picasa–

I wasn’t expecting Flickr and Picasa to align as closely as they do. Both have seen a pretty decent climb in searches over the last month or two as well.

–iPod vs. Zune–

Is it just me, or is the Zune flat-lining?

–Xbox 360 vs. PS3 vs. Wii–

We know that the Wii is currently the best selling console, so it makes sense that there are more searches for the term “Wii” than there are for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

–Twitter vs. Jaiku vs. Pownce–

–Google vs. MSN vs. Yahoo–

Yahoo still leads the way here, although Google is getting close…

–IE vs.Safari vs. Firefox–

Wow, Firefox seems to be popular amongst searches, doesn’t it? I was going to include Opera here, but Google pulled in trends for opera singers, not exclusively the browser.

–Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux–

–Hotmail vs. Gmail vs. Yahoo Mail–

–Gizmodo vs. Engadget vs. Lifehacker–

While Lifehacker certainly wouldn’t be considered a competitor of Gizmodo or Engadget, it’s still a high-traffic blog that I thought would be interesting to compare against other high-traffic blogs.

–Spiderman vs. Batman–

Just for fun Can you tell when Spiderman 3 came out?

–Wrapping it up–

While none of these graphs provide any information we didn’t already know, it’s interesting to see how some of the most popular technology topics compare against others. If you’d like to do your own comparisons, just go to www.google.com/trends and enter in the topics you’d like to compare separated by a comma.  You can enter in up to five different topics. There’s a lot you can learn about what people are searching for, especially with the “hot trends.”

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Looks like YouTube is currently down for some maintenance which will probably anger many people who are looking to kill some time. At least they put up a cool logo in its place which I captured and posted above because I’m sure it won’t be up long. Does it remind you of anything? The first thing the popped into my head was Google Labs.

I can’t wait to see if there are any big changes in store but, possibly by coincidence, Google just announced a few new features for Google Video. Now when you leave a comment on a video you can link directly to a time. That way it is easier for people to skip ahead in the movie and see what you’re talking about.

Google also added one of the coolest statistics features that I have seen for a video service. Now you can see how many views there were on any particular video for the previous day and it is even broken down by views via email and via embedded players. It took me a minute to figure out how to view the advanced statistics but then I saw the very tiny arrow located next to the number of views. Clicking on that link will expand the statistics so that you get a more detailed look.

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