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New iPhone App keeps track of MP (119 diggs) Want to know what your local MP is doing? There's an app for that. Labour MP Derek Wyatt has become the world's first serving politician to launch an iPhone app which he said makes him more accountable to constituents. The free MyMP app shows users what their MP is doing, where they are and lets the public send messages to them directly!

Google Creating Twitter Clone for Gmail (114 diggs) Gmail users can currently broadcast status messages via the Google Talk feature. The main difference between the current offering and the new feature is that status messages aren't available in a timeline format.

Adobe Claims They Don't Ship Flash With Known Crash Bugs (344 diggs) Adobe's comment is what you'd expect any company to say publicly; realistically, what else could they say? It's just very unfortunate for them that someone was able to prove the inaccuracy of this statement in a very compelling way.

Canon bows Rebel T2i with 18-megapixel sensor, 1080p30 video (263 diggs) Canon this morning launched a slew of camera updates headlined by the Rebel T2i. The successor to Canon's entry DSLR shoots at the same 18 megapixels as the EOS 7D and also inherits its video recording features: it now shoots at a full 30 frames per second at 1080p.

Imgur: Stolen Content and Social Media's Double Standard (251 diggs) The majority of the images uploaded to Imgur are stolen from elsewhere. There is zero policing and all uploads are anonymous, which means that great pictures from across the web are scraped and uploaded as ‘genuine’ content all the time.

Google Ocean Showcase: Dive into Your Desktop (340 diggs) New multimedia tours feature some of the Earth's hottest surf and dive spots, important shipwrecks, large underwater mountains and vast canyon systems running along the seafloor.

Real Time Voice Translation is On the Way, Thanks to Google (407 diggs) Real time voice translation is on the way and Google aims to pioneer it. The Internet giant wants to develop its smartphone technology to translate speech in real time.

TOUCHDOWN: Google Runs Super Bowl Ad (1,020 diggs) The rumors were correct: Google took the bold step of running a Super Bowl ad in the 3rd quarter of the game today, marking its first major push into TV advertising and a new frontier of marketing for the company that has triumphed online ads above all else.

Shocker: Consumers Hate Waiting For Slow Web Sites (494 diggs) A third of online shoppers had a bad experience on a retail Web site during the recent 2009 Holiday shopping season and 15 percent found the problem to be “unacceptable.” These bad online experiences caused nearly one in five online shoppers to shop at another site.

Early Windows 7 Testers Must Soon Upgrade or Backtrack (269 diggs) Users who installed the Windows 7 Release Candidate must soon commit or find their way back to Vista.

Exclusive HTC Incredible Photos (377 diggs) We were just handed some leaked photos of the upcoming Verizon HTC Incredible. The device is running on Android 2.1 with HTC Sense, and as our tipster confirms, it's running with a Snapdragon CPU (and is described as "fast, really fast") with 256MB of RAM, and has a 3.5-3.7" WVGA screen.

HTC Incredible Photos Leaked (339 diggs) The HTC Incredible, a leaked cellphone code name that first made the rounds back in December, is the real deal, as seen in these sneak peak pics from Pocket Now. Can you say brown?

Common Misconceptions about Web Designers (532 diggs) Here are some common misconceptions about being a web designer that just aren't true.

Linus Torvalds Loves His New Google Nexus One (823 diggs) Self-described cellphone cynic and "father of Linux" Linus Torvalds decided to get a Google Nexus One the other day. And while the customer service lines may be clogged over the phone's performance, Daddy Linux is positively pleased as punch.

Americans Consumed 33 Billion Online Videos in December '09 (384 diggs) Boom! 178 million US Internet users watched online videos in December. That's 87% of the total potential audience -- very nearly total penetration. I wonder what percentage of Internet users write email -- less than 87%? Anyway, of those 33 billion videos, 40% (13 billion) of them were watched at YouTube. But guess who's next? Hulu -- 3%!

U.S. House Passes Cybersecurity Research Bill (304 diggs) The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a cybersecurity bill that calls for beefing up training, research, and coordination so the government can be better prepared to deal with cyberattacks.

Is Wearable Technology of the Future Just Hype or Hope? (292 diggs) The onus is on us: It is our choices, our demands from the market, that will bring about the necessary actions and changes in the fashion industry. Smart fabrics and wearable technology offer us an opportunity for a more sustainable future, but the promise will be bittersweet if the entire product life cycle isn’t taken into consideration.

PayPal stops personal payments & bank withdrawals in India (433 diggs) PayPal is reversing personal payments to and from India, charging users reversal fees. PayPal won't allow balance to be transferred to banks. So typical of PayPal no reasons given.

Lithium-Ion Battery Life Could Reach 20 Years (773 diggs) Japanese research firm Eamex claims that new lithium-ion battery technology could result in batteries that last up to 20 years and sustain over 10,000 recharges.

Windows Phone 7 to Drop Multitasking? (505 diggs) Microsoft may consciously limit Windows Phone 7 in its attempt to compete against Apple, a leak sent out today claims. Echoing some previous reports, a source says WP7 will have a Zune-like interface at many levels but goes on to say this will extend to the underlying framework as well. It would drop multitasking and instead pause apps...

The 10 Oddest Apple-Themed Products [PICS] (783 diggs)

Germanium Laser Breakthrough Brings Optical Computing Closer (385 diggs) Researchers at MIT have demonstrated the first laser that uses the element germanium. The laser, which operates at room temperature, could prove to be an important step toward computer chips that move data using light instead of electricity, say the researchers.

Neat Radio Controlled Toy Car Uses Coca-Cola as Fuel (422 diggs) Takara Tomy, a Japanese toy maker, has manufactured a prototype RC ‘ene Bio Engine’ car (looks more like a futuristic delivery truck) that runs on Sony’s sugar fueled Bio-Battery. The car, which may be powered by a variety of sugary liquids is still in its prototype phase. See the car in action in the video after the jump.

15 Fantastic Finds on the Google Code Repository (564 diggs) Google Code Repository is a section of Google that, just like SourceForge, allows developers to upload their code for others to use under license. The repository was launched in 2006 and after searching through its archives, I found a number of interesting scripts and other goodies that would be an asset in any website owner/builder's Arsenal.

Twitters Development History Beautifully Visualized (411 diggs) Twitter just recently launched a new Twitter Engineering blog, and to kick things off, one team member, Ben Sandofsky, decided to share a video he made representing Twitter’s development history. The video was made using Code Swarm, a software tool used to visualize data.