Zuckerberg's Hoodie a ‘Mark of Immaturity,’ Analyst Says  —  Mark Zuckerberg is known for having arrived late for a meeting with prospective investor Sequoia Capital and giving a less-than-serious pitch while wearing pajamas.  —  Now, as Facebook preps its initial public offering …

HP unveils Envy Spectre XT Ultrabook, other thin-and-lights in various sizes  —  What's that?  You're hungry for more HP laptops?  Good!  Because we're not nearly done yet!  The company just expanded its line of Ultrabooks from two to five, and that's not even counting this guy.

BREAKING NEWS: Twitter Stands Up For One Of Its Users  —  Twitter has filed a motion in state court in New York seeking to quash a court order requiring it to turn over information about one of its users and his communications on Twitter.  This particular case involves a Twitter user …

AOL Offers Up an Earnings Beat, But a Disappointing Ad Number  —  First look at AOL's earnings: Revenue of $529 million and earnings of 22 cents a share.  Wall Street was looking for $527 million and 7 cents a share.  —  The earnings beat is nice for AOL.

Two weeks of smartphone charging in your pocket  —  Juice in a box.  Lilliputian's portable fuel cell can deliver between 10 to 14 full charges for an iPhone with one replaceable cartridge.  —  (Credit: Lilliputian Systems)  —  Retailer Brookstone this year will start selling …

Nano-SIM update: Apple design modified to fix concerns, standard will be decided this month  —  We just spoke with SIM card maker (and pioneer) Giesecke & Devrient here at CTIA about progress on the creation of the 4FF standard — the so-called nano-SIM — over which Apple and Nokia have been warring in recent months.

Sources Say AOL Seeking Buyers for Engadget and TechCrunch.  Arrington “Not In The Least Bit Interested”  —  We weren't sure about this one at first, but now we have two independent sources confirming that AOL is exploring the sale of its cornerstone technology sites Engadget and TechCrunch.

Foursquare Joins the Coupon Craze  —  Foursquare doesn't want to be another popular—but unprofitable—social network.  Its new plan to make money?  Personalized coupons.  —  The company, which lets users alert their friends to their location by “checking in” via smartphone from coffee shops …

Smoked by Windows Phone by the numbers (and new ads!)  —  When I kicked off Smoked by Windows Phone at CES in January, I did it with one thing in mind - show the world that Windows Phone is simply faster at the everyday stuff that people do on their smartphones.

Samsung Galaxy S III confirmed as official Olympic phone, delivering NFC payWave payments to athletes  —  We may have known this was the case for a number of months already but today Visa has announced that Samsung's new Galaxy S III will indeed be the official London 2012 Olympic Games smartphone …

How Amazon saved Zynga's butt—and why Zynga built a cloud of its own  —  Five years ago, the social gaming company Zynga was cruising along with a fairly standard IT infrastructure.  Servers were racked and stacked in a retail data center where Zynga rented space.

Apple's next iPhone coming in September, 7-in. iPad launching in August - report  —  Pegatron has reportedly landed orders for Apple's next-generation iPhone, rumored to launch in September, while Foxconn will allegedly manufacture a new 7-inch iPad arriving in August.

A better Google+ notification experience in email  —  Notification emails are a great way to keep up with what's happening in the Google+ stream: whether someone mentions you, comments on your post, or shares with you directly.  It's not always enough to just read these updates, however …

Thousands of Twitter passwords exposed  —  Twitter is investigating the release of what appear to be thousands of user account passwords and e-mail addresses.  —  “We are currently looking into the situation.  In the meantime, we have pushed out password resets to accounts that may have been affected …

New iPad Coming to 30 Additional Countries Including Brazil on May 11 and 12  —  As revealed by Apple's iPad selection page for Latin America, the new iPad will be launching in 13 new countries in that region this Friday, May 11.  The most significant new addition is Brazil …

Netherlands: First country in Europe with net neutrality  —  May 8th, 2012 is a day to celebrate in The Netherlands as it becomes the first country in Europe to protect its citizens by enshrining net neutrality into law.  —  The Netherlands is also implementing privacy protections for users …

What Is and Is Not A Technology Company  —  When I was a kid, I had a morning routine with my family.  Over breakfast, we'd divvy up the newspaper.  I'd go straight for the Business section, and from there to the back pages with yesterday's stock prices.  Scanning down the lines of tiny text, I'd look for SUN, ORCL, MSFT, AAPL, SGI.

BlackBerry Curve 9320 now official: BB OS 7.1, 2.44-inch display, BBM button  —  The 9320 has visited more countries during its short gestation than some phones get to see in their whole lives, but it's finally arrived.  The specs are pretty much what we guessed, with the socially-focused BB OS 7.1 onboard …

Shell Apps and Silver Bullets  —  Every company comes up with the idea of writing a “shell app.”  By replacing native code with a web view you could:  — Release new functionality outside a full app update  — Implement a feature once and share it across platforms

Facebook spawns ecosystem of startups  —  To get the true measure of what's often called “The Facebook Effect,” look beyond the company.  Generally ignored in the klieg lights focused on Facebook's IPO is a growing ecosystem of other startups that are using the social network's 900 million users to launch their own businesses.

Sina Weibo to introduce ‘user contract’ on May 28 as China's microblog crackdown continues  —  Fresh from admitting that it hasn't fully implemented China's new rules for microblogs, Web giant Sina is set to introduce a ‘user contract’ for its popular Twitter-like Sina Weibo service at the end of May …

Telefonica launches Tu Me for iPhone with free VoIP calling and messaging  —  It's not often you see a wireless carrier launch an app that directly competes with its core services, but that seems to be just what the Madrid-based Telefónica is doing with Tu Me, a new integrated communications app for the iPhone.