Daily Dispatch: Search-engine news dominates; Motorola Droid sports Gorilla Glass

Combing through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily, Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through the noise to bring you the tech news most important to consumers. If you have a tip on a story you want to share, leave a comment below.

More People Around The World Get Their News Online From Google News Than CNN (TechCrunch)

Well, Rupert Murdoch is going to love this. More people around the world get their news online from Google News than from CNN or the news properties of the New York Times. In November, 2009, according to comScore, Google News attracted 100 million unique visitors worldwide, making it a larger news site than CNN (66 million) or the combined properties of the New York Times (92 million). But do you know who is even larger? Yahoo News, with 138 million unique visitors worldwide. Funny how you never hear Murdoch complaining about Yahoo News.

How Online Retailers Read Your Mind (Gadgetwise)

...An increasing number of retailers, marketers and ad agencies are using elements of neuromarketing techniques—developed from brain research—to make those clicks more likely. They are beginning to use brain-science studies to help determine the elements of your online experience (the colors, location of objects, order of prices on the screen) to influence your feelings about their products, what you will buy and even how much you'll spend.

Exclusive: Nexus One full specs detailed, invite-only retail sales starting January 5th? (Engadget)

...Our tipster doesn't have information on how those invites are going to be determined, other than the fact that it's Google doing the inviting—if we had to guess, current registered developers are a strong possibility—but the good news, we suppose, is that T-Mobile will apparently sell the phone directly at some to-be-determined point in the future. Oh, but that's not all—we've got specs, too. Lots of them. Here are the highlights, but follow the break for the whole shebang...

New Video Ads for Windows 7 are Funny (Digital Inspiration)
Click through for several humorous videos pushing the fact that Windows 7 helps you to simplifly your everyday tasks.

Motorola Droid and Dell Adamo latest to get Gorilla glass (Engadget)

Corning's darn-near-impenetrable Gorilla glass certainly isn't new—in fact, we spied it in a few of Motion Computing's tablets just a few months ago—but it's still not commonplace on mainstream gizmos. Yet. SmartPlanet sat down with Dr. Donnell Walton, senior applications engineer at Corning, in order to discuss the merits of the display technology as well as its importance in the gadget space. The discussion also mentioned that both Motorola's Droid and Dell's Adamo (not to mention Cowon's S9 PMP) are sporting the glass, which acts to make displays "damage-resistant."

Japanese man takes video game character as wife (Reuters)

A Japanese man has married a character in a popular video game, taking her—and his handheld game console—on an overseas honeymoon.

Lighter side: So, Your Still Camera Also Shoots Video? Ha! Not Like The Canon 1D Mark IV! (Dvorak Uncensored)

Check out this low light video shot on a pre-production Canon 1D Mark IV which features a 16-megapixel sensor "similar in size to a Super 35mm motion picture film frame".

Prague: Canon 1DMKIV from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.