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9:45 AM ET, May 19, 2010

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Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
Here's What's New In iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4  —  Oh yes! iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4 is out and we're tearing it apart to find out what's new so that you don't have to risk your iPhones.  Here's what we've discovered so far.  Updating.  —  The default home screen is different.
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Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
Newest iPhone 4.0 Beta Implies That AT&T Is Finally Ready For Tethering  —  Yes!  Yes!  Yes!  Those sounds you heard moments ago are the horrified screams of your nearest AT&T towers.  Why?  Because iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4 brings us a new option in the settings menu: Tethering.
Matthew Miller / ZDNet:
Google Android smacks down Windows Mobile in latest Gartner data  —  The good news for Google's Android operating system and devices continues and as the latest Gartner research data shows Android has now surpassed Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system and moved into fourth place with9.6 percent of market share.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPod touch with 2 megapixel camera leaked in Vietnam (video)  —  Guess who has another Apple scoop?  Tinhte, the upstarts from Vietnam have first pics of the mythical iPod touch with a camera.  The “DVT-1” stamp on the back makes it clear that this is an early design verification test unit in the evolution of product testing.
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch Europe:
Yes folks, the official iPhone Twitter app is here  —  We already knew it was hours if not minutes away - see TechCrunch US report - and it's perhaps no surprise that New Zealand gets the goods ahead of Europe and the US (a bit like New Year's day).  —  Yes folks, the official Twitter app …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Bill Gates Told Steve Jobs About the iPad in 2007  —  May 30, 2007.  Watch Señor Bill Gates describing the future of computing, with Apple CEO Steve Jobs next to him: An iPad-like device being used alongside an iPhone-like device.  Then watch Jobs saying that, actually, the future was the PC.
Matt Drance / Apple Outsider:
Cocoa, Flash, and Safari  —  A great deal has already been said about Section 3.3.1 of the latest iPhone SDK Terms and Conditions, and the apparent standoff between Apple and Adobe over the Flash platform.  Adobe has launched an aggressive PR campaign last week in support of their position.
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Jonathan Frewin / BBC:   Flash inventor enters the debate on the technology's future
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
A Look Back at Steve Jobs' 2003 Stock Options Swap Reveals $10 …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Tension Building At Facebook As Staffers Challenge Zuckerberg's Approach To Privacy  —  Facebook executives have been “hunkered down” for days trying to figure out what to do about the latest privacy backlash, the WSJ's Jessica Vascellaro says.  —  Some executives appear to disagree …
Discussion: Computerworld and Gizmodo
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Grapples With Privacy Issues
Discussion: Computerworld, the Econsultancy blog and FM Blog, Thanks:atul
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Facebook to Launch “Simplistic” Privacy Choices Soon
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline?  Its Co-Founder Thinks So  —  Quora is a great place to find answers about products from prominent people involved with them.  It's also a great place for those prominent people to disagree, publicly.  That's what's happening right now in a thread about the future of Firefox.
Discussion: ZDNet and blogs.chron.com
Sid Murlidhar / Facebook Blog:
Fast and Free Facebook Mobile Access with 0.facebook.com  —  Today, we are launching another way for people to access Facebook anytime, anywhere: 0.facebook.com. 0.facebook.com is a new mobile site that includes all of the key features of Facebook but is optimized for speed.
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft sues Salesforce.com over patents  —  Microsoft on Tuesday fired a major shot across the bow at Salesforce.com, filing a federal lawsuit against the online software company claiming it infringes on nine patents.  —  The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Seattle …
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Bogus is one way to describe Microsoft's patent claims against Salesforce.com
Google Enterprise Blog:
Putting email in context with Gmail contextual gadgets  —  Since launching the Google Apps Marketplace in March, Google Apps administrators have deployed integrated third party apps to more than one million users, and today we're excited to build on this momentum with the launch of a new Gmail API …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Gist brings social email data into Gmail
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Xobni Puts Gmail Gadgets Into Outlook
Thanks:xobni
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Yahoo Buys Associated Content for $100 Million  —  Deal Will Shore Up Portal's Content Offerings, Help Produce Low-Cost Media  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Yahoo has acquired startup Associated Content for slightly more than $100 million in a deal that gives the portal new technology and a new strategy for producing low-cost media.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
What Is Yahoo Thinking?  Buying Associated Content Opens Up A Whole Can Of Worms
Discussion: PC World and Silicon Alley Insider
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:   Why Buy Associated Content? All About Niche, Says Yahoo
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google To Launch Amazon S3 Competitor ‘Google Storage’ At I/O  —  Amazon's cloud storage services are going to be getting another major competitor this week: Google.  We hear that this week during its I/O conference, Google will be announcing a new service that is a direct competitor with Amazon's S3 cloud storage.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Blip.tv Raises $10.1 Million To Promote Indie Web Programs  —  As it approaches its fifth anniversary, online video provider Blip.tv has closed a $10.1 million third round.  The round was led by Canaan Partners and previous backer Bain Capital Ventures.  The new funding comes after a year …
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
LifeLock CEO's Identity Stolen 13 Times  —  Apparently, when you publish your Social Security number prominently on your website and billboards, people take it as an invitation to steal your identity.  —  LifeLock CEO Todd Davis, whose number is displayed in the company's ubiquitous advertisements, has by now learned that lesson.
 
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Clay Dillow / Popular Science:
Computer Algorithm Can Recognize Sarcasm (Which Is Just Soooo Cool)
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Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
NTT DoCoMo shows off automatic email generator for mobiles (video)
Discussion: DigInfo, Geek.com and Switched
Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Google Contacts Trigger Reprimand for White House Aide, Official Says
Discussion: PC Magazine
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
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Discussion: TechFlash
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple scaling Final Cut Studio apps to fit prosumers
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors and Mac Soda
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
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Jonathan Rochelle / The Official Google Blog:
Simplify common tasks with the new Google Apps Script