Hasta La Gadget!

There are a lot of celebrities in this week’s YouTube roundup: George Takei makes an impressive case for why he should play Spiderman on broadway, and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a triumphant comeback – and brings some helpful sidekicks with him. 

New details have emerged about the lawsuit against Pandora . Data security company Veracode looked into the troubled app, and found that the data was indeed being stored. According to Veracode, Pandora has sold info such as birth dates, location, and gender. Once Pandora collected all of this data, it was sold to ad networks.

Granted, Pandora never claimed that no user data was sold-so this does not come as a big shocker. It should also be noted that Veracode only did this research on a Android device, so no word on whether the iOS version suffers the same issue

Pandora has yet to release a statement regarding the research. Nor has the courts issued a statement based on the findings. Veracode has not said if similar research will be done on the iOS device anytime soon or not.

Via Ars Technica

That didn’t take long. Larry Page has only been back in Google’s top spot for a few days now, and everyone’s already talking about the company’s major reorganization. No one at Google is offering a lot of information on the matter, beyond the fact that Page has “put key executives in charge of their individual business units” according to The LA Times.

The reorganization has apparently been planned at least as long as Page’s ascension to the CEO position has been public. The LA Times again, “the company was clear his top priority would be to create clear lines of accountability and responsibility across Google.” Page reportedly did an inventory of the company’s infrastructure, developing a way to streamline the process that he would implement as soon as he stepped into the chief executive position.

The move seems intended to return the company to its inaugural spirit of creative adventure. Says someone who spoke to the paper anonymously, “The idea is to empower people, let them take risks and give them more authority over decisions.”

Page’s new position is being compared to Steve Jobs’s infamously tight control over Apple.

Google pulled the Grooveshark app from the Android Market this week, in the wake of complaints from major label record companies. According to sources cited by CNET, label execs complained that the app was a violation of copyright law.

Google told the site, simple, “We remove apps from Android Market that violate our terms of service.” What those violations are, the spokesman wouldn’t say. 

The move comes at a time when the company is reportedly talking with labels ahead of the launch of a rumored music service that would compete directly with Amazon’s recently launched Cloud Drive and a yet-to-be announced revamped MobileMe from Apple.

Sure Ben Gibbard has done his time in the Postal Service, but the singer wants the world to know that he’s also down with the latest technologies. For his latest trick, Gibbard’s band Death Cab for Cutie will be shooting a one-take video to promote its new single “You Are a Tourist”–a single take that will be live streamed on the Web. 

It’s kind of hard to describe because it’s kind of like … I liken it to a five-year-old trying to explain their trip to Disneyland. It’s sensory overload, so there’s a lot of things happening, and trying to kind of walk anybody through it would be very difficult. But there are lights and dancers, and smoke and projections, and it’s gonna be kind of a little bit of a Busby Berkeley-type of spectacle.