Of all the mobile applications that Google has come out with in the past couple of years, Google Goggles is definitely one of the coolest. You point your smartphone at any object, and Google attempts to figure out what it is — and it’s actually pretty good at it. And now it’s gaining two pretty interesting features

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Google Goggles Can Now Read Print Ads. Oh, And Play Freaking Sudoku!

So we’ve got Siegler up in the air travelling to New York in order to watch some Verizon honchos and possibly Steve Jobs unveil a CDMA phone tomorrow morning . As Verizon iPhone anticipation ( wow, I will actually be able to make calls! unlimited data! ) nears fever pitch, people are grasping at any signs of their iPhone dreams coming true. For example, along with pointed hints from the @Verizonwireless , it appears that the @Verizon Twitter account has been tweeting from an iPhone in the days leading up to the event, giving the tech media at least one more post about the mythical phone that launched a million page views.

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Days Before Big Announcement, Verizon Is Tweeting From An iPhone

Saul Klein is a partner at European VC firm Index Ventures, previously worked for Skype, co-founded Video Island and is founder of Seedcamp. In this guest post he responds to recent posts by TechCrunch US writer Paul Carr regarding the position of London as a startup hub.

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