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White iPhone Cometh, Twitter Rejected $10B From Google, 100Mbps Coming Nationwide, And More…

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. White iPhone Due Soon Apple 's legendary white iPhone will be ready for AT&T and Verizon in a few weeks, according "three people with knowledge of the plans." Twitter Rejected $10 Billion Offer From Google Twitter reportedly turned down multiple offers, including $2 Billion from Facebook and one from Microsoft . Crowdsourced Map Campaign Attempts Anti-Slave Momentum Demand the Brand, a State Department-supported project, allows users to upload photos of themselves with products to "demand" that they be made slave-free.

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Twitter Launches New Programs to Help Goose Revenue

Last week, Biz Stone appeared on the Howard Stern Show, where the satellite-radio host grilled the Twitter cofounder on virtually every aspect of the social network. One of the funnier parts of the interview came when Stern asked Stone about how much money he's made from Twitter, to which Stone replied that he makes a perfectly good salary, has a mortgage, and leases a Mini.

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Jane McGonigal to Find the Future at the New York Public Library

Gaming guru and Reality is Broken author Jane McGonigal is organizing a game to commemorate the New York Public Library's centennial celebration. On May 20th, 500 gamers will spend the night in the main branch of the library on 42nd Street to complete 100 "quests" designed by a McGonigal-directed team.

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What the Students Say: Technology Venturing

"Until then, this had been just a class project." Samit Gupta is co-founder, with Robert Rushenberg, of the start-up O2 Insights, based in Menlo Park, California. In 2009, he took the Technology Venturing class at Ohio State University.

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Apple Teaches Google About Product Synergy (Lesson Learned?)

Google's Android OS has made great strides in seizing marketshare among smartphones, but the fragmentation of devices has finally caught Google's attention--for its Honeycomb tablet OS, hardware specs will be much tighter.

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Nokia Leads Ride Pimping Initiative With Apps, Smartphones, NFC, Wireless Charging

Nokia and a long list of car and consumer electronics firms just agreed to form the Car Connectivity Consortium--a global effort to harmonize the electronic magic that will power your future car, and which would fill K.I.T.T. with envy. [Ed: And Kit] According to the press release, the newly minted Car Connectivity Consortium is an "open alliance focusing on cross industry contribution" that will release its first specification "within the next few months" with some of the "first commercial products" due later this year

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Architecture for Humanity’s Cameron Sinclair to Announce Japan Reconstruction Plan From Stage at SXSW

"Canceling ALL SXSW parties to launch #SXSW4JP tomorrow." That was Cameron Sinclair's Saturday night announcement, via Twitter. He's expected to announce the details of Architecture for Humanity 's Sendai earthquake reconstruction plan Sunday afternoon from the stage during his South by Southwest keynote.

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Army toughens fitness test for first time in 30 years

The Army plans to toughen its fitness tests for the first time in 30 years to make sure all soldiers have the strength, endurance and mobility for battle, adding exercises like running an obstacle course in full combat gear and dragging a body's weight.

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