Speculation started flying around the web today that domains registered by Amazon last week suggested a name for the company’s rumored tablet project: the Scratchpad. Despitesomereportssuggesting that Amazon’s new tablet may be called the Scratchpad, the domain registrations are related to some of the company’s developer tools. Amazon’s legal department registered several domain names on the 25th of March, including AmazonScratchpad.com and several variations that include the letters MWS — Amazon’s Marketplace Web Service....

The strength of the Australian dollar has been a sore point for many companies and freelancers in the country over the past few months, with the currency going well beyond parity and hitting as high as US$1.10. While television news anchors report on news of the strong dollar with a smile on their face, the reality is that it hits hard, taking big chunks of income from our large base of freelancers operating with clients abroad and large companies alike....

Despite the uproar that followedGoDaddy CEO Bob Parson’s elephant shootingearlier in the year, consumers didn’t put their money where their mouth was: the company has experienced significantly increased sales since March, aFlippa infographicshows. “Their share of registrations seems to have increased since the shooting, and their share of website sales hasn’t diminished when looked at relative to the rest of the website market. We doubt the event even factored into GoDaddy’s $2....

As wereportedyesterday, users of the physical activity tracking gadgetFitbithad their profile information, including details of their sexual activity, indexed by Google and easily accessible via a quick search. Embarrassment all round for both users and Fitbit, then. Luckily, despite the long Independence Day weekend in the US, it appears that someone at Fitbit spotted the furore yesterday and has acted fast. Now thesearchthat previously revealed information like “Moderate effort” in users’ sex lives returns no results....

Hot off the heels of our story in which weestimated the total number of sold WP7 handsets, Deutsche Telekom has stepped in to back up our somewhatencouraging prognostications. Astory on Yahoo Germanythat dealt mostly with the influx of new WP7 phones to the German market contained a quote at the end made us sit up an pay attention. We will give you both the German original version, and our best translation:...