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BGR is reporting that the Curve 8900 will soon be available in white. While we don’t have any info on pricing or an exact launch date, it’s interesting to see carriers continue to launch old devices with a new paint job. The Bold 9000 looks good in white, and so does the 8900. Anyone want their BlackBerry Storm2 painted white?

BlackBerry Cool for BlackBerry Cool, 2009

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The Department of Justice today charged 14 individuals with involvement in insider trading. These include current and ex-employees at the hedge fund Galleon Group, the proprietary trading companies Schottenfeld Group and Incremental Capital, and the law firm Ropes & Gray. The Wall Street Journal has the details:
The complaint alleges former Galleon and Shottenfeld Group LLC employee Zvi Goffer, and at least six other defendants knowingly conspired to defraud,Source: Business Pundit RSS Feed

Filed under: Suzuki, Volkswagen, Rumormill

Those constant rumors that Volkswagen may acquire a 10-percent stake in Suzuki all have one thing in common: they all emanate from the Volkswagen side of the coin. Naturally, no such deal can be completely one-sided, and whenever given the opportunity Suzuki has consistently denied that there’s any truth to the speculation.
Osamu Suzuki, chief executive at the Japanese automaker that bears his name, has once again conclusivelySource: Autoblog RSS Feed

Filed under: Europe, Plants/Manufacturing, Crossover, Ford

Ford Kuga – Click above for high-res image gallery
How’s this for an odd twist – Ford essentially kicked off the SUV craze with its Explorer, an embiggened four-door Ranger. And man, did we go crazy. Before the cheap-gas bubble burst, slightly more than half of all passenger vehicles sold here in America were SUVs. Just below the Explorer was and is Ford’s little truck (which is no longer little) the Escape. And almost Source: Autoblog RSS Feed

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, On Two Wheels, USA

Looking back, 2009 may be seen as the year that electric motorcycles began their rise to market dominance. If that is to happen, the start-ups in that sector will have to be successful in the execution of their various business models. What they are trying to do with the motorized two-wheeler is more revolutionary then evolutionary and so their approach to the market must be distinct, perhaps diametric to that of the companies thatSource: AutoblogGreen RSS Feed

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Transportation Alternatives

Proterra electric bus – Click above for high-res image gallery
Altair Nanotechnologies has not had a completely successful string of events these last few years. They lost more money than expected in 2007 and were not always embraced by the investment community. But there was good news, too, like some government spending and a deal with Phoenix Motorcars (well, that’s more a good news/bad news sort of thing). This week,Source: AutoblogGreen RSS Feed

By Andrew Liszewski

Epoch’s new Sound-Touch Pudding is supposed to be along the same lines as those keychain bubble-wrap simulators, but instead of popping plastic bubbles it lets kids enjoy the feeling of pudding, without getting their hands dirty. Yeah. Apparently my parents were mistaken when they thought pudding was a dessert, and not a toy. As an added bonus when you touch the pudding it triggers a cute female voice, which is another area where my childhood puddings wereSource: OhGizmo! RSS Feed

It would appear that the Associated Press has nominated Calvin Woodward to be their go-to guy for “Fact Check” pieces that blow up political arguments and assertions by the White House and partisan Democrats.

In late April (covered at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), Woodward, in an item headlined “Obama disowns deficit he helped shape,” blistered Barack Obama and his administration for its attempt to pin the blame for this exploding federal deficits and national debt on hisSource: BizzyBlog RSS Feed

Filed under: SUV, Truck, China, Government/Legal, Plants/Manufacturing, GM, Hummer, UAW/Unions

Cedric Glover, the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, went to Washington, D.C. to plead his case for the sale of Hummer to Tengzhong. The only thing is, we’re not sure why he went. To be more precise, we do know that he wants to protect jobs at GM’s Shreveport plant that builds Hummers. The plant has about 800 workers who build some of The General’s pickup trucks and Hummer models, andSource: Autoblog RSS Feed

Filed under: Motorsports, Videos

Motorsports in slow motion — Click above to watch video
One of the greatest things about motorsports is that they look as good — maybe even better — in slow motion as they do at full speed. A YouTube user called Mattzel gathered a series of racing moments from last season, slowed them down and set them to music, and the result is short, but marvelous. Follow the jump to watch the vid.
[Source: YouTube via Axis of Oversteer]

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