Toshiba has announced a new mobile monitor powered by USB. The 14″ mobile monitor retails for $199 and it weighs only 2.8 lbs. The mobile monitor screen is 1366×768 pixels and it has 220 nits of brightness. If you plug in an optional AC adapter, it will have a 400:1 contrast ratio, 16 millisecond response time, and native support for Windows. [Engadget]

The U.S. District Court in New York has rejected Google’s book settlement with the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers. The Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) let Google scan whatever books they wanted and index it.

AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) has just notified some of their staff members that they are going to consolidate some of their media properties. About 30 brands will be integrated into other properties as proposed by editor in chief Arianna Huffington. The properties include:
- Politics Daily being rolled into HuffPost Politics
- Walletpop being rolled into Daily Finance
- Urlesque being rolled into HuffPost Comedy
- Luxist being folded into Stylelist
- TV Squad being rolled into AOL TV
- Other AOL properties will keep their names, but will essentially become sub-headings within The Huffington Post

[Forbes]

Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S) has announced the HTC Evo View 4G tablet at CTIA 2011. The Evo View 4G 7-inch tablet has a 1024×600 display resolution. Other specs include 1.5GHz Qualcomm CPU, 1GB RAM, 32GB internal memory, microSD card slot, 5 megapixel HD camera, 1.3 megapixel font facing camera, 4G WiMax connectivity, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth 3.0. [Android Central]

DotCloud is a platform-as-a-service company that has raised $10 million in Series A. Ron Conway and Chris Sacca was the company’s angel investors. Investors in the Series A round includes Benchmark Capital and Trinity Ventures. Jerry Yang (Yahoo! co-founder), Marc Varstaen (Apple engineering manager), Peter Fenton (Benchmark Capital), Dan Scholnick (Trinity Ventures) will be joining DotCloud’s board of directors. DotCloud allows developers to build applications through custom components.

Research In Motion Limited (TSE:RIM) is now providing free BlackBerry Protect service to all BlackBerry users. This service was only previously available to enterprise users. The BlackBerry Protect service allows people to locate, back up, and remotely wipe their handsets. The BlackBerry Protect service can be downloaded from BlackBerry App World. Another useful feature is the ability to have an extra loud ring for when your handset cannot be found or mapping it on the GPS. [The Register UK via SlashGear]

Yelp.com is a reviews website that focuses on bars, restaurants, coffee shops, etc. It lets you filter venues based on categories such as trendy, intimate, classy, etc. Now they have added a new category: hipster. Some of the hipster spots include Roberta’s in Bushwick and Freemans on the Lower East Side. [Gawker]

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has donated $1 million to the Georgia Institute of Technology as part of the Google Focused Research Award. The research project is to develop a tool to determine whether their Internet service is being throttled by ISPs or censored by the government. Check out the press release below: