General Motors subsidiary OnStar has helped find about 58,000 stolen GM vehicles so far, but this past week they helped save a Chrysler 300. The standalone OnStar FMV system went for sale for non-GM cars this past year. Jean Franklin of Gresham, Oregon bought a 2006 Chrysler 300 on December 16th. Her car was stolen two days after. She reported the theft to the police and the OnStar device was activated shortly after. About an hour later, the thief was caught. [Jalopnik]

Google has released a commercial for the Google+ social network featuring the Muppets. The song playing in the background of the commercial is Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure.” The Muppets studios have been creating viral videos for the last couple of years and this is the type of commercial that Google needs to get more attention to their social network.

PhoneDog is suing their former employee Noah Kravitz. Kravitz left PhoneDog in October 2010 in good terms, but he took about 17,000 Twitter followers then. PhoneDog is suing Kravitz for $2.50 per follower per month for roughly 8 months, which amounts to about $340,000. PhoneDog told Kravitz that he could keep the followers as long as he continued to tweet about the company.

Mark Zuckerberg has hit the streets of Hanoi for his Christmas break. His trip included lavish meals, private yacht trips, helicopter rides, and goat-catching. First Zuckerberg and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan were taken by private security to Sapa and Halong Bay.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has rejected Oracle’s patent claims against Google. On December 20th, the U.S. Patent office issued a rejection in the reexamination of Oracle’s U.S. Patent number 6,192,476. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had rejected 17 out of the 21 claims about the patent in discussion including 7 of the patent’s independent claims. Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google in 2010 over patents and copyright infringement within Java over the Android operating system.

The Amazon.com EC2 service is considered the 42nd fastest supercomputer on Earth. What’s interesting is that the EC2 service is virtual and is built on top of the company’s Elastic Computer Cloud. EC2 is a web service that is able to set up virtual servers on an on-demand basis. Best of all, anyone can use it.

Google has started rolling out a tool that lists airline rates within their search results. The results link directly to their airlines’ websites rather than online travel agency websites like Kayak, Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity, Priceline, etc.

Ever since Steve Jobs was quoted in his biography by Walter Isaacson about how he has been able to “finally crack it” when it comes to the television set, people have been speculating when Apple would release the product into the world. Supply chain sources with DigiTimes are reporting that the Apple iTV would be launching in Q2 or Q3 of 2012. Suppliers are expected to be ramping up the materials in Q1. It is believed that Sharp will be manufacturing the TV sets for Apple. [DigiTimes]