Some secrets of the next RIM device seep out: We get a peek at the BlackBerry Striker/Stratus. Here is the original post: BlackBerry Pearl 9100 Exposed Early Read Full Story

A New Jersey man was sentenced to a year in prison plus $37,500 fine for his role in a DDoS attack last year. More:  Teen Jailed for Hacking Scientology Site Read Full Story

You know the retweet button you see on content spread throughout the web? You can thank TweetMeme for that. Long before Twitter’s new Retweet functionality existed, this button was the way to share on Twitter Go here to see the original:  Retweets Are Hot. Will Retweeting Ads Be? TweetMeme Thinks So. Read Full Story

Rotten Tomatoes is a great site because it takes all the movie reviews from around the web and condenses them into an easy-to-understand aggregate score. But let’s be honest: Most movie reviewers suck. Why not instead rely on people in your social circle to recommend movies to you? More here: FlixUp Is Rotten Tomatoes For Twitter Movie Talk Read Full Story

Today at the RealTime CrunchUp , representatives from some of the top companies involved in location based services came together to talk about the current state and future of geo-based services. Participating in the panel were: Matt Galligan, co-Founder of SimpleGeo Ryan Sarver, Director of Platform at Twitter Tristan Walker, VP of Business Development at Foursquare Steve Lee, Group Product Manager Google Maps for Mobile and Google Latitude Justin Shaffer, Founder of Hot Potato Elad Gil, CE... Read Full Story

“ Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all. See original here:  Gmail Creator Thinks Email Will Last Forever. And Hasn’t Tried Google Wave. Read Full Story

If you’re looking to bring Facebook to the Windows desktop and Twitter-centric update tools like Seesmic or TweetDeck are too limiting for you, you might want to take Fishbowl for a spin. View original post here: Fishbowl Puts Facebook on Your Desktop Read Full Story

If you’ve been on the web long enough, you’ll know that Twitter isn’t the first startup to have suffered scaling issues: the auction site had significant problems keeping the servers humming in its early days. Today eBay is giving users a small reminder of that era: eBay’s search engine is down, meaning goods cannot be found without using the category structure. Read more here:  eBay Search Down Read Full Story

Wishing you could get a Motorola Droid and stand out from all your Android-toting friends at the same time? Then you might just want to consider bidding on this “limited edition” Droid prototype that just turned up on eBay, which has a reasonably good chance of being an actual Droid, and a slight chance of being an actual prototype. If the seller is to be believed, however, this particular Droid is one of only five produced, and is different from the standard issue Droid in a few... Read Full Story

Mobile devices have edged PCs as the tool of choice in Asia for online social networks, researchers find. Here is the original: Cell Phones Drive Social Networks Now, IDC Reports Read Full Story