Week in review: Crunchpad renamed JooJoo, Google adds real-time search results

Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Crunchpad manufacturer renames product JooJoo, promises launch this Friday at $499 — The CrunchPad was the tablet computer being built by TechCrunch with production contractor Fusion Garage. But the companies had a falling out (whose details remain murky), and now Fusion Garage is trying to sell the device on its own. The JooJoo site is accepting pre-orders, despite a lawsuit filed by TechCrunch.
Americans consume 3,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information per year, not counting work — The average American sucks down 34 gigabytes of data per day, half of that from video games, says the latest update of a study by two researchers at the University of California in San Diego.
11 things I didn’t know about app development — The “I” in question is VentureBeat writer Paul Boutin, who summarize the surprising things he learned while attending VentureBeat’s DiscoveryBeat 2009 event, where experts discussed how mobile and social applications can stand out in an age of noise.
How to fail … gloriously — This post features a video of Eric Ries (of Startup Lessons Learned) discussing how and why a company failed despite five years of work, a talented staff, and $40 million of venture capital.
Seagate finally makes move from hard drives to flash storage — After two years of study, the hard drive maker is launching a new flash memory storage business, one of its most significant expansions in years.
And here are five more stories we thought were important, thought-provoking, or fun:

Google adds real-time search to its results page — Google search results are about to speed up, with what the company says is “the first time ever any search engine has integrated the real-time web into the results page.” The search giant announced the news Monday, saying it planned to roll out the feature gradually, and it looks like it’s live in the United Kingdom.
CES expected to be a smaller trade show this year, but still full of innovation – The International Consumer Electronics Show, the biggest geek fest in North America, has been shrinking thanks to the severity of the recession and its impact on travel plans. But the show’s organizer, Gary Shapiro said in an interview that this year’s show should be stronger than last year’s.
Hot air: Sarah Palin slams climate change summit — The former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post arguing that the summit in Copenhagen was a sign that science is being politicized at the expense of average Americans. We summarize Palin’s article, as well as some of the responses in the media.
Le Web: Q & A with Twitter, Square creator Jack Dorsey — Dorsey was interviewed on-stage at the Le Web conference in Paris, where he discussed the early days of Twitter, as well as his plans for his new mobile payments startup Square.
Music video supersite Vevo launches into a sea of fans, crashes — The site is a venture between Google-owned YouTube and the music industry to place YouTube-powered music videos in one spot — with higher-end advertising to monetize it. However, the site was incredibly slow on launch day, and it posted a message on Twitter saying it couldn’t keep up with traffic.