Have a look. You’ll find it here.

Thanks to James Fallows in the New York Times.

Good Morning, Silicon Valley reports that

South Koreans hoping to communicate with man’s best friend could be getting help soon from their cell phones. KTF Corp., a South Korean mobile phone operator, said Thursday it will begin offering a service that will enable dog owners to know whether their pets are feeling happy or sad.
The users must first connect to Internet with their cell phones, and then register information of their dogs such as the breed and age. The service will then record the dog’s bark.
The owner will receive text messages telling them how their pet is feeling, such as “I am happy” or “I am frustrated.”

Er, not being entirely convinced by this story in The Register, I typed “Brothels in Cambridge” into Google Maps, and it came up with five establishments. The first was BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. The second was the Medical Research Council. Both are exceedingly respectable outfits — and the other three listed seemed, well, improbable! Shome mishtake here, as Private Eye says, mimicking Bill Deedes (aka William Boot).

On the other hand, a search for “Churches in Cambridge” provides an excellent and accurate list. So what is it about brothels that makes Google go wild?

En passant, it seems improbable to me that a town as sedate as Cambridge would have brothels. Or perhaps I am just naive.

Later: Andrew Brown, from whom nothing is hidden emails with an ingenious theory.

If you click on the links on the map, you will come, often enough, to news stories in which brothels are mentioned that have little or nothing to do with the place on the map. But if they came from a newspaper which was spidered at a time when it also had a brothel story on the same page, this will fool Google. I think that because it’s not a recognised business category that we get this problem. That would certainly explain why the police stations are there in the Register story.

That seems pretty plausible to me. Come back, Google, all is forgiven.

Remember Carly Fiorina, the testosterone-poisoned ex-boss of HP? Well, if you’re desperate to hear how she, er, revitalised HP, she will happily give an inspirational address to your AGM. At $40,000 a throw, it’s a steal. And many of your employees will be enthused and follow the example of the former Hewlett Packard workers now building exciting new careers in the fast food industry.

Ho, ho! The Pentagon released a heavily-censored PDF version of its report into the shooting, by US troops, of the Italian secret agent who was escorting a freed hostage to safety. But it turns out that you could make the blacked-out paragraphs in the classified document, containing top-secret details (such as the name of the soldier who fired the deadly rounds of ammunition) reappear by cutting and pasting them from the site into a Word document! More exquisite details from Corriere della Sera here.

The iTunes store sells songs for 99p each. Some people think this is too much. But the band Coldplay has found an even more profitable way of selling their music. They’ve signed up with Cingular Sounds to sell fragments of their stuff as ring tones. Fans can fork out $2.49 to purchase a 15-second snippet from the band’s new single, Speed of Sound, that can be used as their phone’s ringtone. Assuming that the average track lasts for three minutes, that’s equivalent to $29.88 per track. No wonder the ringtone business is now reckoned to be worth $209 a year. It even has a Top Ten chart.