Toyota working on Segway killer -- The transportation robot is called Winglet and comes in three sizes. See screenshot, via ZDnet.
Network storage company Agami shuts down -- The Sunnyvale, Calif. company raised $85 million and competed against companies that went public, including 3Par. The shut-down was sudden, catching employees by surprise -- apparently, a major debt-holder wanted its money back.
Illinois mandates online cancellation for game subscriptions -- An Illinois family found it difficult to cancel a recurring online game subscription fee -- by phone so they talked to their politician friends.... The state just signed a law into being that mandates online game companies include an option to cancel online. Amazon buys rare-book site AbeBooks -- AbeBooks is a marketplace that offers more than 110 million used or rare titles, and it has been bought by online book giant Amazon. AbeBooks is itself a minority owner in reading list sharing site LibraryThing, a competitor to Amazon-backed Shelfari. Security company McAfee buys Reconnex -- Mountain View, Calif.-based Reconnex provides business data loss prevention software; McAfee purchased for $46 million in cash. Reconnex raised $36 million. Third time not the charm for SpaceX's latest launch -- The privately-funded space rocket startup was attempting to launch three satellites into space, but the rocket blew up minutes into the flight. That was the third launch attempt, but a fourth is slated for later this year -- the company says its determined not to give up. AOL buys Friendfeed competitor SocialThing -- When it comes to services that let you share what you're doing on various web sites within in a single interface -- "lifestreaming", if you will -- I prefer Friendfeed and Facebook. AOL, meanwhile, has bought smaller Friendfeed rival Socialthing. Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake joins stealthy startup Hunch -- Fake talks about her move here, you can sign up for Hunch here.