After a flood of leaks , Verizon’s just officially announced its prepaid data plan for smartphones. The new 3G Prepaid data package will offer smartphone users “unlimited” data for $30 a month, while feature phone users can score 25MB of data a month for $10 with a 20-cent-per-meg overage fee — all contract-free, of course.

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Verizon officially announces prepaid smartphone data packages

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

At this point you’d think we covered almost every nook and cranny of Windows Phone 7, from games and UI to a launch device or six , but of course there’s a few dust balls of info our swiffer of newsgathering has yet to grab up. Microsoft Canada’s Greg Milligan has revealed at a recent Xbox 360 event.

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Windows Phone 7’s short-term future includes phone-to-console gaming, Twitter?

Amimon — remember those guys? The company responsible for transmitting 1080p video over a 5GHz band went ( nearly ) radio silent after making a few announcements at CES this year, but now it’s hitting back with a new prototype system designed to support the bandwagon that James Cameron and company are driving forward. The new setup is capable of wirelessly transmitting 3D HD video using WHDI (5GHz), with the demo showing that 1080p 3D video could be beamed with a frame rate of 24fps without any major hiccups

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Amimon demos prototype wireless 3D HD transmission system

Ever since we heard that Nikon was joining the league of mirrorless cameras, the whole world’s been waiting for its arch rival to make the next move in the battle of smaller prosumer cameras .

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Canon developing smaller DSLRs to compete with mirrorless cameras?

We’re being fed some information on Verizon’s launch strategy for its first commercial 4G markets today; the bad news is that it’s looking like you’ll have to wait until the holiday shopping season, but the good news is that they should have a surprisingly decent footprint at launch. Specifically, we’re hearing that two data cards (presumably including that LG VL600 USB stick ) will kick things off on November 15 with over 30 markets around the country — including biggies like New York, LA, Chicago, and Philadelphia — alongside ten airports, perfect for you globetrotters on layovers

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Verizon’s LTE network launching November 15 with two data cards and over 30 markets?

The verdict is still out on whether or not Sony’s Dash is a world changer, but while we patiently await the first mod to shove a battery into this thing and make it a bona fide tablet, we’re going to flick through your suggestions on tweaking what we’ve got. Were your hopes dashed (ahem) when Sony revealed that this thing was meant to be used inside ?

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How would you change Sony’s Dash?

When Rupert Murdoch was asked whether or not News Corp would be launching an e-reader of its own, he answered : “I don’t think that’s likely.” It seems that what he meant was: “Why bother?

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News Corp buys Skiff e-reader platform, invests in online journalism

As we’ve heard from a handful of commenters (and some emails), a lot of you guys are wondering just what happened to a post we did yesterday comparing the EVO 4G to the iPhone 4. Well allow us to unearth the shocking truth behind the mystery. We had a debate yesterday as to whether or not it was fair to compare a phone we did a thorough review on (the EVO 4G — you can read all about how awesome we think it is right here ) to a phone we only had a short time to play with (the new iPhone).

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Conspiracy theory: what happened to the EVO 4G vs. iPhone 4 post?

Check this slice of molded plastic out. The Guardian case from M-Edge claims to be the world’s first waterproof flotation device for the Kindle , allowing users a “hands-free” reading experience whether they’re in the bathtub or the pool. Resisting aquatic incursions to a depth of one meter, the Guardian comes with three internal buoyancy chambers, a dual hinge, a four-latch closing system, and flexible button cutouts to keep the keyboard useful.

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Kindle gets waterproof case from M-Edge, begins its life acquatic