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Google is working on a mobile phone, a Google executive confirmed, but you may not see it in the States. It would, after all, steal some Apple thunder, and Schmidt and Jobs are billionaire buddies. Engadget reports that Isabel Aguilera, a Googler heading up things on the Iberian Peninsula, said there is a Google phone being developed, but are intended for the the markets in developing nations.

Last week, Engadget reported that sources close to Microsoft had passed along information about a Zune-based competitor to Apple’s iPhone. Following up on those reports, CrunchGear goes on to say today that the Zune phone is not just a rumor and is confirmed for a 2007 release.

When YouTube announced this summer that they had surpassed the 100 million video streams per day mark, the media picked it up and ran with it while skeptics sat back in disbelief - a disbelief that can still be found in the blogosphere. comScore recently released a report confirming YouTube's numbers.

Website owners and administrators might have noticed a new search spider agent appearing in their site logs. It appears that Google has another bot operating out there.

With thoughts of salvaging the Hubble Telescope being of major concern, Michael Griffin has been confirmed by the US Senate to take over as NASA's chief.

Tralliance has been confirmed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), to serve as the registry for the new .travel (dot travel)...

The owner/founder of Bloglines [Mark Fletcher] confirms the acquisition rumors on his blog this morning. Here's the post from Mark's blog.

A few days ago I went on a rant about Oracle having layoffs and that some of my friends would probably be losing their jobs.