Google has remained highly committed to the Google+ experience and are continually pushing out new features to improve upon it. Today, they’ve added the ability to reply to Google+ notifications from within Gmail. This is a great feature that allows you to comment, share, and +1 without leaving your inbox. It can be tedious sometimes to receive an email notification and then have to open up the app or navigate to the web client just to +1 a comment. This new feature should boost user engagement and make for a more enjoyable experience.

If you passed on Sprint’s Samsung Galaxy Nexus in favor of the EVO 4G LTE, your patience is about to be rewarded as Sprint has now opened up pre-orders for the latest and greatest HTC EVO 4G LTE. If you head over to Sprint now, you can put one of these bad boys on hold for yourself (or someone else) and then anxiously await the yet-to-be-announced launch date.

After a weekend deliberation, a federal jury in San Francisco handed Oracle a partial victory by finding Google guilty of copyright infringement yet remaining deadlocked on whether Google’s use of the Java APIs fell under “fair use.” The jury found that Google infringed a minimal amount of Java source code with Judge William Alsup indicating that Oracle would only be entitled to statutory damages as a result. This certainly wasn’t what Oracle was hoping for and when Oracle’s lawyer seemed to suggest they were entitled to more than just statutory damages, Judge William Alsup quickly put the kibosh on that notion based on the minimal amount of code infringed, stating what they’re seeking as “bordering on the ridiculous.”

We’ve all heard stories of celebrities and their high-priced diamond encrusted phones, but have you heard the one about Best Buy selling a run-of-the-mill HTC EVO 4G LTE for $99,999.99? It’s an obvious mistake but if you head over to the Best Buy site now, that’s the current price of an off-contract HTC EVO 4G LTE device. Talk about sticker shock! I bet if it wasn’t a mistake, there would be some rich fool out there that would actually buy it just to say he did. Anyways, it gave us a good chuckle.

HTC users have been patiently waiting for the next iteration of devices to hit shelves and replace their aging devices. While most carriers have been granting user’s wishes in the form of the HTC One X and One S, Verizon will be filling that need with the DROID Incredible 4G LTE. Officially announced today, the DROID Incredible 4G LTE will be a huge step up from the previous Incredible 2 and will feature: