While the wire eats itself alive with news of AMD’s shakeup of the CPU market, we’re scrubbing the lines looking for a little variety to start your day. Nintendo, Google and HTC all have something to say in these early hours, so check it out and check back often:

• If you’re looking to keep tabs on free and price-dropped iPhone app store entries, you might enjoy the 148Apps utility. Keeping tabs on the app store’s top 148 applications, it also has a convenient feed that contains alerts about price drops. As prices fluctuate in the app store all the time, this may be worth it to catch that app you’ve had your eye on dropping down to free.
• It seems the new Nintendo DSi, the successor cohabitator? to the smashingly-successful Nintendo DS Lite will use region coding. Like DVDs which restrict playback of DVDs to a handful of geographic regions, DSi games will be isolated to Japan, the US and the UK.
• It has been revealed that the HTC Touch Diamond, known for having the world’s highest resolution phone screen at 480×800, will not be coming to the US.
• Android spotted in the wild! Sorta. Kinda. Does it count if a Google employee that isn’t a CEO carried it?
• Have you seen the Asus S101? A 0.7″ thick netbook is pretty hot. Unfortunately the machine approaches $700 as the US launch will boast only 1000 units.
• Rumor has it that the icky Blackberry Storm is going to get an official announcement tomorrow.
• MIT seeks to use the power of lights that imperceptibly flicker to transmit data. When we’re all dead of endless epileptic seizures, we’ll have the galaxy’s best terrestrial bandwidth!
• Netbooks are more popular than ever, and Acer is refreshing their Aspire One model on Amazon.