All apologies to Lady Gaga, but it turns out that your quantity of Twitter followers isn't nearly as important as their quality. At least not for news-media feeds, according to this new ranking of the 100 most influential media Twits. More »

Admittedly, I was a little disappointed to discover the G2's new Snapdragon processor is only clocked at 800MHz, but according to leaked figures from GLBenchmarks, the graphics should run at the same speed as Motorola's Droid X and 2. More »

Google's new Instant search autoloads search results as you type. I'm skeptical that it'll save fifty kajillion man-hours once you add up all the milliseconds saved. Its real use cases are still on the way: local, mobile, and video search. More »

The privilege of being first to market with any tech means you're the only choice for people who want what you're offering. Exogear's iPhone 4 battery case is in this lucky position. The good news? It's actually well done. More »

The new iPod Nano certainly lives up to its name—it has a 1.54" touchscreen and very little else. IFixit blasted it open with a heat gun and found more screws (11) than parts (7) inside. [iFixit] More »

Ever wonder what it's like to fall on the third rail? Just ask Andy Morris, who was thrown onto the tracks in East New York: "He first started twitching and then you started seeing smoke coming from his head." Ouch. More »

If you've been using Google Search on your phones, pat yourselves on the back—you've given Google another reason to smile this week. Their director of product management revealed the news yesterday, at the Citi Technology Conference. [AllThingsD] More »

Amazon's reader behemoth is about to get a little more behemoth-y, as Best Buy will begin selling Kindles this fall. With the devices already selling out, we can only imagine what the nation's largest electronics retailer will do for sales. [CrunchGear] More »

Tablets have the potential to topple stacks of textbooks, but it can't happen until publishers start cramming entire curricula into apps. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's new Algebra 1 app, which has a full year's worth of material, is the first attempt. More »

In a surprising announcement—and after receiving a mountain of criticism, —Apple has announced that they "are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps" and "publishing app review guidelines." More »