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Motorola Droid 2 Pre-Sale Starts Tomorrow on Verizon

Not that it's been a very well kept secret, but Motorola and Verizon have officially announced the Droid 2, the Froyo-outfitted, Flash 10.1-equipped successor to the original Droid. It goes on sale tomorrow for $199, after a $100 rebate.

Motorola Droid 2 Pre-Sale Starts Tomorrow on Verizon [Droid2]

If you explore Google's corporate website, you'll encounter the company's ten core principles. It's a philosophy, sure, but it's also a report card. Good news! Google's passing its own test. Bad news: Big G's getting a C.

Google Graded On Its Own Principles [Google]

What is abstract photography? We could debate the nuances of the definition all day—as many do. But it's so much more fun just to look at the mind-bending pictures from this week's Shooting Challenge, isn't it?

171 Absolutely Abstract Wallpapers [Photography]

According to an Engadget source—the same one that said the next AppleTV would be a $99 unit with iPhone guts—Apple's next TV device will be rebranded iTV. And it will have apps, but it won't play 1080p video.

Rumor: AppleTV Renamed iTV, Will Have Apps but No 1080p Playback [Unconfirmed]

Today we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Echo 1, history's first passive satellite. NASA's Echo mission began rather poorly. A test launch had exploded so brightly, so spectacularly, that it prompted frightened calls up and down the entire eastern seaboard.

Happy 50th Birthday to Echo 1, Grandpappy of Satellite Communications [Techversary]

Apple has pulled Camera+ from the App Store. Its only sin: Allow iPhone customers to press the volume button to take photos. But why are they taking away a feature that everyone has been demanding since the JesusPhone was introduced?

Why the Hell Did Apple Pull Camera+ From the App Store? [Rant]

If you ranked the things in life that Jobs seems perfectly content to ignore, license plates would be up there with Handicap parking spaces, three-piece suits and customer demands. The proof, as it were, is all over Flickr.

The Mystery of Steve Jobs' Plateless Benz [Steve Jobs]

Voice Actions work! Really well! The video above is a good demo, showing it it navigating to Giz, sending an email, finding Starbucks and and making a self-memo. I didn't even have to hold the phone up to my face.

Mouth On With Android's Voice Actions (Verdict: It's Great) [Voice Actions]

His name: Christian Owens. His age: 16. He made his first million dollars in two years, "inspired by Apple's CEO Steve Jobs". This is how he did it.

How a 16-yo Kid Made His First Million Dollars Following His Hero, Steve Jobs [Stories]

In this week's totally awesome app round up: Splodes, sploded; nearby lightning strikes, pinpointed; the apocalypse, rendered in adorable 8-bit style; free turn by turn navigation, improved; Xvid files, played on your iPad; and so much more!

This Week's Best Apps [Apps]