The Casio G’zOne Ravine phone will be hitting Verizon Wireless very soon. The G’zOne has a 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash, noise cancellation, VZ Navigator support, and MIL-STD-810G compliance. This means that the phone can resist water, shock, vibration, dust, salt fog, high and low temperatures. The phone will be coming soon at a price of $149.99 with a $50 rebate and two year contract. [Engadget Mobile]

Even though there has been plenty of singing robots out there, the HRP-4C dances, syncs with back-up dancers, bobs its head, and uses hand movements. The HRP-4C was developed at the Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Masataka Goto, the head of the interactive media group at the institute said that he hopes someday robots will be used by the entertainment industry. Check out the robot’s performance in the video after the jump:

American video game development company Valve Corporation has announced that their online gaming platform Steam has surpassed 30 million accounts. This is the platform’s 6th year in a row of over 100% growth in unit sales versus the previous year. This year they have seen almost 200% growth. Part of this year’s growth is because of the launch of Mac OS X support.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:CEO) Steve Jobs normally does not appear on earnings calls, but he did this past week. And he decided to go to town on his rivals. Jobs knocked on the “openness” of Google Android and RIM’s tablet computer. This sparked a debate. Below is some of the things that Jobs said and what some of the responses were.

According to the New York Post, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) may spend up to $500 million to promote the Kinect controller for the Xbox 360. The money will be spent on ads and sponsorships. The $500 million budget is the same amount spent to promote the original Xbox console itself back in July 2000.

PlayFirst is a popular mobile gaming company behind games such as Dinner Dash, Cooking Dash, Wedding Dash, and Hotel Dash. These games have been extremely popular on the Apple App Store. Because of this, PlayFirst raised $9.2 million in venture capital funding. PlayFirst plans to use the funding to increase their agility in the social and mobile gaming space according to VentureBeat. Mayfield Fund, Trinity Partners, DCM, and Rustic Canyon Ventures put in $5.2 million in this round. Comerica Bank invested $4 million in debt financing.

Causes is an online philanthropy service that was started by Joe Green and Sean Parker. Causes recently raised $9 million in Series C funding from Founders Fund, Marc Benioff, Dustin Moskovitz, Karl Jacob, Keith Rabois, and Ron Conway. Scott Sandell will also be joining as an observer on the Causes board of directors. Green said that the company plans to use the funding for building their team.

Cut The Rope, a game for the iPhone and the iPad has hit one million sales in 10 days. This makes it the “fastest selling title on the App Store to date.” Chillingo is working with ZeptoLab to create updates for the game. Cut the Rope costs $1 for the iPhone and $2 for the iPad. There is also a free Lite version of the game. [Joystiq]