Daily Dispatch: Google eBooks now available for multiple devices; PlayStation phone is really an app

In today's Digital Dispatch:

Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices (Official Google Blog)

...We designed Google eBooks to be open. Many devices are compatible with Google eBooks—everything from laptops to netbooks to tablets to smartphones to e-readers. With the new Google eBooks Web Reader, you can buy, store and read Google eBooks in the cloud. That means you can access your ebooks like you would messages in Gmail or photos in Picasa—using a free, password-protected Google account with unlimited ebooks storage.

Hertz To Offer Electric Vehicles By The Hour (GreenTech)

...The company will work with a variety of charging station makers, EV manufacturers and electric utilities to ensure there are enough chargers available to drivers where Hertz rents EVs and plug-in hybrids.

An Undocumented Google Search Operator (Digital Inspiration)

...Google also supports an undocumented search operator called AROUND(n) that will help you find documents where the distance between two search terms is around ‘n.'

Search Engine DuckDuckGo Partners With Web of Trust to Help Users Avoid Scam Websites (ReadWriteWeb)

...With this partnership, DuckDuckGo has added a new setting option that allows you replace the favicons that appear next to site results with WOT's traffic-light ratings. In other words, green is go; red, no go.

Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 (All Things Distributed)

...Amazon Route 53 is a new service in the Amazon Web Services suite that manages DNS names and answers DNS queries. Route 53 provides Authoritative DNS functionality implemented using a world-wide network of highly-available DNS servers.

PlayStation Phone… is an Android app?! (TiPb)

...The PSPhone or PlayStation Phone or Zeus or whatever Sony ends up calling what should be their premiere mobile device runs on top of Google's Android platform. Android 2.3 Gingerbread to be precise.

Gazaro helps you get money back from Best Buy (cnet)

...You e-mail the service your receipts (for online purchases) or paste a URL or scan a barcode with the Gazaro iPhone app (for in-store purchases), and if the price of the product goes down post-purchase during the guarantee period, you get an e-mail alert.

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