While we all know that some tidbits of information in the iPhone/iPad SDK don’t necessarily mean we’ll see these features soon (or ever) on the devices, they can be a good pointer as to what to expect from their future iterations. The folks at 9to5Mac and MacRumors have done some digging, and found references to front facing camera, zoom, flash and video conferencing in the latest Beta 3 iPad SDK. There’s some evidence to support the theory that these were intended for the iPad (the size of the accept/decline buttons, for example), but as we all know, the iPad has no front facing camera, or any kind of camera at all.

Intel is leading 24 venture capital firms and 17 technology companies in an effort to bring 10,500 new jobs and $3.5 billion dollars into American technology companies.

Josh Warner is president and founder of Feed Company , which promotes and distributes brand videos, including campaigns such as Levi’s “Backflip,” Ray-Ban’s “Catch” and Activision’s “Bike Hero.” In three years, Feed has seeded more than 100 videos across the social web. 2009’s crop of top viral video advertisements show us that people are willing to embrace a host of creative approaches on the social video Web, from beguiling mini-films, to user-generated advocacy, to YouTube celebrity endorsers, to elaborate commercial-grade productions.

Are our everyday lives really so mundane? Does it all boil down to working, getting home, satisfying the most basic needs such as eating and sleeping, and then repeating the cycle the next day? Well, if we look at what we post on microblogging networks, it looks that way.

Last month we reported on the relative popularity of the iPhone on popular photo-sharing site Flickr: popular enough to vie for and reach the #1 spot. That a camera phone could eclipse popular photographer mainstays like the Canon EOS Digital Rebel, Nikon’s D-Series and others spoke highly of how much people value taking images on the go from a device that’s always in their pockets.

Google’s “doodles”, their creative renderings of the Google logo celebrating famous figures and significant events, have the ability to draw worldwide attention to under-appreciated historical figures. Who, for instance, is Hans Christian Ørsted, to whom a brilliantly creative Google logo is dedicated today? In short, Ørsted was an early discoverer of electromagnetism