Chris Brown has used Twitter to talk about how mad he is when it comes to the promotion of his music album Graffiti. Brown believes that major retail stores are not holding a grudge over him for his treatment of Rihanna.

“im tired of this shit. major stores r blackballing my cd. not stockin the shelves and lying to costumers. what the fuck do i gotta do…” said Chris Brown on Twitter. “im not biting my tongue about shit else… the industry can kiss my ass.”

In March 2009, Chris Brown was charged with felony assault and for making criminal threats. He was given five years of formal probation.

Beijing Automotive Industry Holding has struck a tentative agreement to produce several models of Saab vehicles. Beijing Automotive will be allowed to make older versions of the Saab 9-3 and 9-5 in China. Beijing Automotive will not be allowed to prevent any separate deal that General Motors decides to make for Saab.

However the employment possibilities of 3,500 workers in Sweden is still a big question mark. GM was close to selling Saab to Koenigsegg last month but the deal fell through. Beijing Automotive’s deal with Saab “would be good for Sweden, good for China and good for Saab,” according to a Saab spokesperson.

GM is still negotiating with other Saab buyers such as Renco and Spyker Cars. GM bought a majority of Saab for $600 million in 1990. Then bought the rest of the company for $125 million in 2000.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is building a new phone called the Nexus One through a partnership with HTC. A lot of employees and testers have been tweeting about how cool the new phone is. The Great White Snark wrote that it is “like an iPhone on beautifying steroids.”

This new phone will be sold by and branded by Google as an unlocked phone. The Nexus One is expected to launch in January 2010 and it won’t be sold by any one carrier. Since it is unlocked, you will be able to use it with almost any existing GSM plan you have through a SIM card. The Nexus One is very fast, uses a Snapdragon chip, and has a high-res OLED resolution. The phone also has two microphones, no keyboards, and has a large built in camera. There is also a voice-to-text feature that allows you to say the words you want written in an e-mail and it gets automatically dictated.

The phone looks very similar to the HTC Passion. Below are some screenshots of the phone as seen on Engadget.

The brochure of the Honda CR-Z hybrid car has been leaked on Honda fan website Temple of VTEC. The specs were written in Japanese and Temple of VTEC found a translator to report what the new car has in store. The CR-Z is the only hybrid car available that has a six-speed manual option.

The car has 1.5 liters of VTEC which gives it 113 horsepower and 107 lbs. of torque. The car also has Honda’s IMA hybrid system and does 62MPH in about 9.7 seconds. Below are the specs of the car as reported by Temple of VTEC:

From what we can see, here are some of the specs:
Length: 4080 mm (160.6 in.)
Width: 1740 mm (68.5 in.)
Height: 1395 mm (54.9 in.)
Wheelbase: 2435 mm (95.9 in.)

Engine: 1.5L i-VTEC + IMA
Transmission: 6MT or CVT
Power (ICE): 114ps@6000RPM
Torque (ICE): 145 NM (107 lb-ft)@4800RPM
Power (IMA): 14ps@1500RPM
Torque (IMA): 78 NM (57 lb-ft)@1000RPM
0-100km/hr (0-62mph): 9.7 sec

The car was supposed to be unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show next month. After the jump are some large images of the leaked brochure:

Former Indian Institute of Technology and Purdue University student Vikram Buddhi was sentenced today to about 57 months in prison. After that he will be on 3 years of supervised release. The reason for his arrest was because he posted hate messages in 2006 to former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, and their wives. He also called for the bombings of U.S. buildings. Buddhi is a 38 year old Purdue PhD student.

Buddhi can attempt to appeal the sentence at a court in Chicago within the next 10 days. Buddhi already went to prison April 2006. The months he spent in prison back then will most likely be deducted in his next sentence. Buddhi fired his own lawyer and represented himself. He said the trial had been unfair after the judgment. Judge James T. Moody gave an order that Buddhi will be charged today.

WebMediaBrands Inc (NASDAQ:WEBM) has bought out The Social Times, the parent company of AllFacebook.com. Nick O’Neill will become the Director of Social Times at WebMediaBrands. The financial details were undisclosed. AllFacebook.com started about two and a half years ago and The Social Times blog several months later.

The acquisition also includes the company conference and the New Media School blog. WebMediaBrands is best known for owning MediaBistro.com. WebMediaBrands recently sold Internet.com for $180 million. O’Neill will be provided with additional resources to hire more writers. The Social Times receives about 500,000 unique visitors per month and 1 million pageviews per month.

Earlier this month a writer over at Oregon Media Central received a legal threat over a tweet. Someone was posting funny and embarrasing videos of two anchors at KOIN-TV, a CBS affiliate. The YouTube user was named “kointastic.”

When the Oregon Media writer did a search for kointastic on YouTube, all the videos were removed. The account was closed about a day after the videos were uploaded. The Oregon Media writer sent out the following tweet:

Anyone see the behind-the-scenes @KOIN_Local_6 videos posted by “KOINTASTIC” before the account was closed? http://3.ly/vBq

The tweet linked to the seach results page on YouTube for the videos that were disabled. Below is an e-mail that KOIN-TV news director Lynn Heider sent to the Oregon Media writer:

From: Lynn Heider
Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Subject: Remove video links from your Twitter account
To: Oregon Media Central

Lynn Heider
News Director
KOIN Local 6
222 SW Columbia St.
Portland, OR 97201
P 503.464.[redacted]
E LHeider@koin.com

Then there was a some more back-and-forth:

“Oh, there are no videos there, just dead links showing where the videos used to be. Are you sure that’s a problem?” said the Oregon Media writer.

“Thank you. If the links won’t play we won’t pursue it,” stated the KOIN-TV director.

Erin Andrews had a stalker. The stalker used a video camera to record her walking around nude in a hotel room. Now that man will be entering a guilty plea next week. The stalker is Michael David Barrett and he will be charged with interstate stalking which carries a penalty of of 5 years. The man altered peepholes with a camera. Barrett ended up posting some of the videos on the Internet and his lawyer issued an apology on his behalf.

ESPN reporter Erin Andrew’s lawyer said that she continues to “feel and experience ramifications of what occurred every time she steps foot into a hotel room.” Andrews will be speaking at the court plea and expects to say that she wants Barrett to have “severe punishment.”