Google seems to be in the spirit of giving out free phones again, as the search engine giant has been handing out Motorola Droid or Nexus One phones to attendees of Google’s annual I/O conference, and that is even before the conference, so they won’t have to waste moment handing them out during the event. The downside is that you won’t be able to demand for a specific model as Google is sending them out based on location, but whether you’re getting a free phone, there’s nothing much to complain about, right? particularly since these are probably the top two Android-powered phones at the moment, at least until the HTC EVO 4G hits the market.

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[SXSW] I saw Tungle the first time when the Canada-based company launched at Demo in Spring 2007, and Richard Zeidel, VP Strategic Alliances, showed me a demo at SXSW where the company announced its Open API. Tungle is a scheduling and calendar sharing application with a social networking component; it synchronizes with most online calendars such as Google Calendar, Outlook, Lotus Notes, iCal, and Entourage.

Tungle makes meeting organization a lot easier by offering a personal calendar page on the web, accessible from newsletter via a link: on the person profile page you can see the available slots and choose the perfect moment quickly, thereupon you add your personal info and it will be sent to other attendees via newsletter, no need to sign in to get that done. (see photo gallery or video demo after the jump).

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[SXSW] At SXSW, I met with Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO, of Loopt, a location-based social networking site, and he showed me the new Loopt app for the iPhone. Loopt introduced its new Pulse button that allows SXSW attendees to access a consolidated guide for all the panels, films, bands, and parties going on at SXSW (Pulse! tab > Events) From there users can listen to music clips from the SXSW bands and see who else is going on Facebook. Loopt was one of the first successful mobile location-based social networking site, but now competing with trendy new comers Gowalla and Foursquare, who added a gaming component to the regular location-based social networking, the company had to release a check-in feature 5 months ago.

According to Sam Altman, the site counts now by 3 millions users, and the new Pulse feature include tens of thousands of local events, allow check-in to events, public Tips, and the ability to RSVP to events posted on Facebook. New partners SonicLiving, Zvents and Metromix are giving access to music and entertainment subject matter to Loopt users.

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[SXSW] Today, Nikon, in partnership with Yfrog, launched an image sharing website where bloggers armed with Nikon cameras will upload their photos and videos from around Austin during the SXSW conference. The Nikon/Yfrog site is live since noon CT, and you’ll be able to see pictures from Chris Brogan (@chrisbrogan), Jeff Pulver (@jeffpulver), Sarah Austin (@pop17), Brooklyn Vegan (@brooklynvegan) and the winner of the Nikon Film Festival, Marko Slavnic. SXSW attendees can participate as well, any images and videos uploaded through Twitter using the #SXSW, #SXSWpics or #SXSWpix hashtags will automatically be shared through the gallery. Additionally, the #SXSW Twitter feed is displayed on the side bar, making the Nikon/Yfrog site a great place to get the SXSW news.

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Last week in San Francisco , we’ve announced the Uber10: the greatest gift suggestions. Two attendees came home with awesome gifts: a LG BD390 Blu-ray Disc Player with VUDU streaming (courtesy of Dolby), and a Viliv X70 mobile Web device (courtesy of Intel).

For those who were not at the event, there is one HP Envy Beat laptop to give away (courtesy of Intel). that is pretty much the best laptop that HP has to offer and it is powered by Intel’s Core i7. Here is what to do:

• Go to the full post
• Use the widget to reply ” What’s your ‘core’ personality?”
• Leave a comment at the bottom of the page, preferably with your Facebook explanation, so that we can contact you whether you win

Rules highlights

• Don’t enter the giveaway more than once
• This is open to legal U.S residents (50 states), 18 and older (sorry, it’s a legal requirement)
• Winner/commenter will be chosen randomly, will receive one (1) HP Envy Beat laptop (which is worth about $2300)
• The deadline to post a comment is December 4, 11:59pm PT
• Go read and agree to all the rules in that page. Good luck!

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Folks who attended Microsoft’s PDC09 (Professional Developers Conference) should be rather happy, as Steven Sinofsky, Windows and Windows Live Division President, announced that all of the PDC09 attendees will be receiving a free Acer Aspire 1420P Convertible Tablet PC. The free tablet was supposedly to show Microsoft’s gratitude towards all of the PDC attendees and the support that the developers gave Microsoft during the Windows 7 release. In case you were wondering, the features of said laptop include:

• Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit edition
• Intel Celeron 1.2GHz
• 2GB RAM
• Intel graphics
• 3G mobile broadband
• 250GB hard disk
• 11.6-inch screen

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Looks like tomorrow is set to be a big day as Google will most probably preview its Chrome OS at a special event held at its headquarters in Mountain View, California. Apart from providing some technical background data while parading demos of the Chrome OS, attendees will additionally benefit from a complete overview. Guess the Chrome OS is not quite yet ready for prime day action at the moment – we could be looking at a 2010 release moment.

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