The company that kicked Mark Hurd to the curb for financial impropriety has today reported it’ll pay $55 million in a settlement with the US Department of Justice relating to some fiscal delinquency of its own. HP was accused of greasing up the wheels of business, as it were, by throwing cash around to companies who would recommend its services to state procurement agencies.

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HP agrees to pay $55 million to settle investigation into illegal kickbacks

Looks like Australia and Poland were just the beginning: Coulomb Technologies is looking to roll out nearly 5,000 electric vehicle charging stations in the US, effective immediately. If one of those cherry-red push pins is pointed at your neighborhood, you’ll likely see the stations popping up at local businesses soon, and if you’re looking to purchase a Chevy Volt , Tesla-powered Smart or one of Ford’s two new EVs, you can even qualify to have a free station installed in your home

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Coulomb partners with Ford, Chevy, Smart to deliver 4,600 free EV charging stations in US

We told you NVIDIA’s all-new superpowered mobile GPU would only fit inside jumbo-sized cases and here’s your proof. The Clevo Style Note D900 is neither stylish nor much of a note taker, but boy it’s a big, bad gaming machine.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M breaks cover, frags competition in 3DMark

Note: Video of the get really high first is after the jump.

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Eye Candy: Crazy 3-D Mapped ‘Sensory Box’

We’d heard a somewhat sketchy report from the New York Post yesterday that the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission were considering launching an antitrust inquiry into Apple and its various iPhone-related practices, and now it’s being confirmed by Reuters and the Wall Street Journal , who say the inquiry was triggered by complaints from Apple’s competitors and app developers — specifically Adobe, according to Bloomberg . The DOJ and FTC are currently deciding which agency will take the lead in any inquiry, but if and when it gets underway there are a few issues at play: the first is obviously Apple’s decision to block Flash and other middleware from app development, and the second is Apple’s new iAd platform, which comes with its own changes to the iPhone developer agreement that could potentially lock out third-party ad and analytics services like AdMob — itself under regulatory scrutiny due to the Google acquisition — and Flurry.

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Apple under preliminary antitrust investigation over iPhone, triggered by complaint from Adobe

That ugly, pixelated label doesn’t really look like much, does it? Ah, but there’s so much going on here! A closer examination reveals that the label is a dead ringer for the label found underneath the endcap of HTC’s lovely unibody aluminum Legend — but this isn’t exactly the Legend with which we’re already well acquainted. Instead, this FCC filing is for a phone that operates on the 850 and 1900MHz WCDMA bands, a pretty strong sign that it’ll be coming to AT&T (and / or Rogers, Bell, and Telus) at some point.

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HTC Legend coming to AT&T, according to FCC

Apple’s decision to block third-party toolkits and middleware — particularly Flash — from bring used to develop iPhone and iPad apps has certainly prompted a fair amount of debate around the web, and now it sounds like Steve and the gang might face some even harsher scrutiny: a single-sourced piece in the New York Post reports that the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice are currently tussling over which agency should be tasked with a potential antitrust inquiry into the matter.

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Apple to face antitrust inquiry over iPhone coding restrictions?

The world needs another iPod / iPhone dock like it needs another billion gallons of oil floating around in the Atlantic, but there’s something eerily seductive about Finite Elemente’s latest piece. The Hohrizontal 51 is no average dock, and in our estimation, it’s a design element first and Apple accessory second. Designed to be wall mounted and hold up to 55 pounds, this stunning shelf integrates an iPod / iPhone dock into itself, and the inbuilt speakers / video outputs make it even more functional

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Finite Elemente’s Hohrizontal 51 iPod / iPhone dock is its own shelf

The US Department of Justice says that it is still not satisfied with a deal that would allow Google to build a digital library.

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US objects to Google books plan

Scientists in Cambridge show that an “artificial pancreas” can be used to regulate blood sugar in children with Type 1 diabetes.

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Artificial pancreas diabetes hope