Here’s the thing: Google keeps insisting that the data it snared from open WiFi hotspots isn’t a big deal, it’s useless, it was an accident, and so on. But now, some French investigators discovered that the useless data contains obvious passwords and recognizable snippets of email. Which isn’t as useless as Google suggested, you know? Also, Apple iOS 4 is here. the Nook is, hopefully, resetting e-book reader prices to somewhere they should be. and you decide: Toshiba folding tablet, awesome or DOA? Or both?

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