According to the Wall Street Journal, Google and the Internet coupon site, Groupon, have ended  acquisition negotiations without a deal. Google's primary source of income is advertising, so it makes sense that Google would be interested in the deal, though the article says they were very interested at one point and even offered 5.3 billion dollars.

Google introduced a new version of their virtual globe, Google Earth. The latest version includes 3D trees, Google Street View integration, and improved historical imagery.

It's still amazing that Google Earth and Google Maps still exist as separate products. Both require an Internet connection to work and provide similar information. With this update, it looks like the difference is that Google Earth is moving into even more of a 3D virtual world experience.

You can download your own copy of Google Earth 6 at earth.google.com.

Good Monday to you. The Monday after Thanksgiving is now known as "Cyber Monday," because they assume we're busy shopping online from work. If you're considering a new eBook reader, you might want to check out this  new review of the Kobo app for Android before you make that final purchase.

I'm waiting on an Android tablet with really good battery life, because I figure that way I can run any book reading app I'd like and still play Angry Birds. Just a word of warning on those tablets, I went over to Borders to check out the Android-based Cruz tablets, and the Kobo-store based Cruz Reader had the most amazingly unresponsive screen I've ever seen. The salesperson indicated that wasn't just the demo model. In addition, it locks you out of the regular Android Market and only has a 6 hour battery life, so heads up if you're looking at the sale on Kobo Readers over at Borders.

If you're interested in snagging a Sony Internet TV with a Blu-ray player, they're on sale for $299 until November 29th. That's the same price as the Logitech Revue with the bonus of getting a standards-compliant Blu-ray player in the deal. Sony also has their larger Internet TVs with built in Google TV on sale.

You still can't use it to stream content from most major networks, but that's a an impasse likely to find a solution soon. Either Google will negotiate a deal, networks will cave, hackers will figure out a way around the roadblocks, or the FCC will step in with a decision on network neutrality.

If you're interested in snagging a Sony Google TV, they're available at Best Buy and online at the Sony Style store.