This week, the Wall Street Journal has named Livescribe a runner-up in the Consumer Electronics category in this year’s Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards.

The Wall Street Journal received over 500 entries. Livescribe is a runner-up alongside Hewlett Packard and Motorola. Check out today’s Wall Street Journal issue or WSJ.com/Reports to see more.

We’re honored! Thanks, WSJ!

Gizmodo recently asked readers to send their most incredible exploding/leaking pen stories, and Gizmodo readers chose their winner of a Pulse 2GB Pro-Pack!

Check out contest winner David S.’s tale– he’s a teacher who stopped a bank robbery with a pen in his shirt pocket. Thanks to our friends at Gizmodo for hosting this contest!

“As a teacher, I have a tendency to carry around a red pen for correcting papers on a very regular basis - most frequently in my front shirt pocket. One afternoon as I was depositing my paycheck inside my local bank, two guys wearing ski masks burst into the bank, waving guns and ordering us all to the ground. I’m not one to take much crap, nor am I a small guy, so I called out to the guys to see if we could work something out.

“Apparently, it startled one of them pretty badly (I suspect they were tripping on something) and he pulled the trigger on the gun. Thankfully, it was pointing - more or less - up, but taking advantage of the situation, I doubled over and collapsed, simultaneously punching myself in the chest where the pen was. As I hoped, it broke, spilling red ink all over my white shirt.

“The would-be robbers, already tripping on something, absolutely flipped out - apparently, killing someone wasn’t something they had planned on doing. They tore out of the bank like bats out of hell, where there were thankfully, several police cars just pulling up, as one of the tellers had hit the silent alarm. Needless to say, I walked away from the incident with merely a slight bruise, and short one red pen.”

Reposted from Gizmodo.

This week, the 2 GB Pulse smartpen is Apple’s #1 staff pick at the Apple.com store.

Check us out, and a big thank you to Apple!

Earlier this week, we were excited to learn that Good Morning America picked the Pulse smartpen as a back-to-school must have.  If you’re up early tomorrow morning on Saturday, August 22nd (7am PT or 8am ET) - tune in to Good Morning America and root us on!

Cornell University edged their way to a winning spot by making the most marks on Livescribe’s college map on Facebook. Overtaking University of Texas at Austin, Cornell’s Class of 2013 was instrumental in this exciting jump to the #1 spot!

If you’re a Cornell student, faculty, or staff member, you can enter to win a Pulse smartpen on campus. Here’s how:

From Friday, August 21st until Monday, August 31st, fill out an entry form at The Cornell Store. We’ll be choosing 10 Pulse winners a day!

On September 3, head to The Cornell Store and spin the prize wheel to win a Pulse smartpen on the spot!

RSVP for the big giveaway event at Cornell on Facebook.

*Entries are limited to one per day. Limit of one Pulse smartpen per person.

We’re kicking off a Twitter contest for 72 hours starting today through Thursday at 5pm PT. One lucky Livescribe fan will win a 1GB Pulse smartpen,  just for a quick Tweet!

The rules are simple: Just re-Tweet the exact phrase: “@Livescribe is giving away $10K in Pulse smartpens and scholarships at www.livescribe.com/mapyourcollege” and you’ll be entered. We’ll let the contest run for 72 hours, filter out any duplicates and select a winner.

Good luck and happy scribing!

Livescribe is offering an easy and fun way for college students and college-bound high school seniors to win over $10,000 in scholarships and Pulse smartpens with a Facebook application called “Where are you going to college?”

The “Where are you going to college?” application is an interactive map that allows Facebook users to see whose going to their college, and what schools their friends are going to.

Here’s how you can enter:

1. Go to: www.livescribe.com/mapyourcollege

2. Put your college on the interactive map

3. Write and submit a witty story or personal aspiration (a short blurb under 140 characters) on how you’ll make your mark in college for a chance to win a $1,500 scholarship and a Pulse smartpen.

The college with the most students on the Livescribe College Map will win up to 200 Pulse smartpens, so even if you’re not in college anymore, at least you can help your alma mater win by putting yourself on the  map.