On June 28th, it was revealed that Google activates 500,000 Android devices daily, a number that was projected to grow higher and higher and the summer rolled along. Today, during Google’s Q2 earnings call, it was announced that the amount of daily activations had increased by 50,000. A jubilant Larry Page, CEO of Google, revealed more »

HP has listed a what seems to be budget business laptop called the HP 550 on its product site. We say budget because the new HP laptop features some not so expensive Core 2 Duos and Celerons as configurations for its processor. Aside from these, the HP 550 will also have an Intel GMA X3100 graphics, up to 4GB of RAM, up to 250GB of hard drive storage, a choice between a combo optical drive or DVD burner, and a 15.4-inch diagonal WXGA Brightview display with up to 1280 x 800 pixel resolution.

Today, Garmin announced two new GPS units that are similar to each other called the Nuvi 500 and Nuvi 550. The interesting thing about these GPS units is that they are both capable of helping when driving, or when outdoors such as hiking. One of the main differences between the 500 and the 550 is that the 500 provides US only maps, while the 550 comes with maps of North America.

Both of these devices sport 3.5-inch screens, full street maps, waterproof touchscreens, as well as handy topology maps. It comes with a swift toggle system to switch between maps, and it also comes with a compass. The topology maps and the compass should both come in handy when outdoors. They also have support to load photos as well as sharing photos. It has something called Route 66 guide, which means it will display special POI’s or landmarks along highways.