Google to make Gmail a little more social

Sources familiar with the company’s plans tell CNET that Google is ready to integrate status updates into Gmail in Twitter-like style, with a stream of text and multimedia updates.

The next Droid ad will reportedly suggest that the iPhone is merely a tool for “giggling-brat-vanity.”

Three executives found guilty of privacy invasion, but not defamation, concerning a YouTube video of bullying a boy with Down Syndrome. Google will appeal.

The software maker says Enrique Rodriguez, who had been heading the Mediaroom, Zune, and Media Center efforts, is “pursuing other interests” inside and outside Redmond.

In April 2006, Jonathan Schwartz was handed the reins to return the company to its glory days. Now that Sun is set to be swallowed up by Oracle, Schwartz is leaving, sources tell All Things Digital.

The chipmaker is spending millions of euros over three years in partnership with three French groups investigating mammoth supercomputers.

Microsoft’s Hong Kong subsidiary is running the test as part of its marketing push for the new operating system.

CA plans to buy privately held 3TERA, one of the earliest providers of cloud-computing software systems.

The FCC is asking Google and the four major wireless operators to explain how they inform their customers about their early termination policies.

By fiddling with preset settings files in the new Lightroom 3 beta, Sean McCormack adapted the software to make time-lapse videos.

The e-mail team behind Mozilla’s Thunderbird has begun building what it hopes will be a universal communicator for e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, and more.