WSJ confirms Apple purchase of Lala

Well that’s that, apparently. Although this story has evolved quite a bit over the day, according to Peter Kafka over at All Things Digital , Apple has indeed coughed up the dough for music streaming service Lala. If you believe what you read in the report (and you probably can, Kafka tends to be a straight shooter), Apple’s snapping up the company for what will amount to a bargain-basement price..

Barnes & Noble’s Nook gets a brief and early hands-on

Thanks to a very generous anonymous tipster, we’ve gotten a number of hands-on pics of Barnes & Noble ’s soon to be released ( for some ) Nook e-reader. The impressions we’ve been given, however, weave a tale of a laggy Android interface, which sounds like what we noticed with the first introduction video . Other fun facts include in-store WiFi browsing coming in 2010, and an important clarification that cover-to-cover book browsing over BN’s network only works for an hour at a time, not unlimited.

Caption contest: Ellen DeGeneres and her ʞoou giveaway

Look, sometimes show hosts can get a bit too excited, especially when it comes to Christmas giveaway segments behind a massive pile of gadgets — most of which they’ve probably never heard of until ten minutes before the show. If you were Ellen DeGeneres here with the upside-down Nook e-reader , what could possibly be going through your head?

Apple looking to buy Lala, get into streaming music?

There’s no deal yet, but Bloomberg and All Things Digital are reporting “confirmed” buyouts talks between Apple and music-streaming service Lala. If it goes down, the deal would potentially bring free music streaming to Apple’s iTunes empire, but we’re assuming Steve’s less interested in integrating Lala’s current service than he is in its talent, back-end technology, and content licensing deals. We’ll see where this all goes — or if it even happens

HTC exec promises Hero successor in 2010, debut at Mobile World Congress

Yet another reason to love the Swedes: they give us juicy details.

Nook early adopters promised a December 9th shipment, $10 online gift certificate

We already made it clear that the January 15th Nook date applies only to new orders, and while Barnes & Noble ’s retail outlets may not be getting any love (read: no units will be in stock for sale, as confirmed today), many of the faithful who pre-ordered early are receiving a happy note from the company right now with a not-quite-firm statement that “we expect to have it to you by December 9th” with free, upgraded overnight shipping. Another bonus

Motorola prepping ‘La Jolla’ low-end Android clamshell?

It’s a source code-palooza these days! Fresh off that huge HTC code name find , someone’s dug into the Motorola CLIQ ’s source code and found references to a new Motorola device dubbed “La Jolla.” Meaning “The Jewel” in Spanish, La Jolla apparently means “low-end Android clamshell” in Motorola-ese, with mention of a WQVGA screen, 528MHz processor and what seems to be a QWERTY keyboard.

Core Values: What’s next for NVIDIA?

Core Values is our new monthly column from Anand Shimpi, Editor-in-chief of AnandTech .

Nokia Booklet 3G review

You might think MikroMikko is the name of some Asian fusion restaurant, but it was actually Nokia’s first computer line — and in 1987, the MikroMikko 3 was a state-of-the-art MS-DOS machine with 1MB of RAM and 20MB drive.

Verizon commits to ‘newer’ Android for Droid Eris with Google Maps Navigation in Q1 2010

HTC has pulled no punches about the fact that it intends to bring Heros up to Android 2.0 ( or is that 2.1? ) spec at some point, though neither Sprint nor Verizon had quickly followed on to assure customers that there’d be upgrades ready and waiting for their versions (sure, technically, the Droid Eris is a different internal HTC codename than the Heros of the world, but they’re basically brothers from the same mother)

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