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3:25 PM ET, September 2, 2010

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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Steve Jobs on Why Facebook Is Not Part of Apple's New Ping Music Social Network: “Onerous Terms” — Yesterday, at the Apple music event in San Francisco, I had a short chat with Apple CEO Steve Jobs as he strolled through the demo room for the media, just after he had announced various updates for the iPod, Apple TV and iTunes onstage.

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:

If Apple Can't Deal With Facebook's “Onerous” Terms For Ping, Why Was It Using Facebook? — Update: We're hearing reports of people who had access to a Facebook Connect feature in Ping earlier, which didn't work, and has since been removed. So it looks like Apple really did pull Facebook support for Ping very late in the game.

Discussion: BetaNews, BoomTown, CallingAllGeeks, MediaMemo, GMSV, Softpedia News, Salon and Gadgetwise

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Ping Averts Its Gaze: Apple's New Social Network Doesn't Really Want to Know Much About You — Steve Jobs says Ping is supposed to be a “social music discovery” service: You share your musical taste with friends and vice versa. But if you really want to share, you're going to find it harder than you think.

Discussion: BoomTown

Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Ping Is the Future of Social Commerce

Discussion: eWeek, Mashable!, Digital Daily, Adotas, GottaBeMobile, Computerworld, CNET News, Apple, iLounge, TUAW, Seeking Alpha, blogs.chron.com, chrisbrogan.com, OurielOhayon, Cartoon Barry Blog, Chris Pirillo, NewTeeVee and GeekSmack

Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Ping: First Look at the iTunes Social Network

Discussion: VatorNews, App Advice, Computerworld, Ars Technica, PC World and Scripting News

Leland Rechis / Twitter Blog:

Twitter for iPad: Sharing content in Tweets — People are increasingly sharing different types of information on Twitter. For example, Tweets point to web pages, photos, videos, hashtags, people, check-ins, and more. Exploring Tweets is a great way to discover new and interesting information.

Discussion: Mashable!, jkOnTheRun, ReadWriteWeb, VatorNews, line of site, PC World, Gizmodo, CallingAllGeeks, GigaOM, Redmond Pie, BoomTown, Twitterrati, Techland, AppShopper.com, Erictric, Phone Arena, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, PadGadget, TheAppleBlog, Bits, everythingiCafe, App Advice, Twittercism, TUAW, The Next Web, Techie Buzz and Ubergizmo

Nilay Patel / Engadget:

Twitter for iPad review — It's no secret that Twitter for iPhone (née Tweetie) is often regarded as the gold standard for mobile apps — it blends functionality, performance, and usability together with a dash of playful quirkiness that works so well Twitter just bought the app and hired developer Loren Brichter back in April.

Discussion: Gadget Lab, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, Telegraph, Silicon Alley Insider, The Equity Kicker and iPhone Hacks

Gizmodo:

Samsung's Galaxy Tab Runs Froyo, Has Flash and Measures 7-Inches — It was possibly the worst-kept secret in tablet-land (more so than the iPad), but the final specs have now been revealed for the Samsung Galaxy Tab. It'll run Android 2.2 (Froyo) and comes in a 7-inch flavor—for now.

Paul Miller / Engadget:

Samsung Galaxy Tab preview — After a week of painful teasing, Samsung has come clean about its Galaxy Tab 7-inch Android tablet. We got the nitty gritty specs, along with some quality time with the device, and we like what we're seeing on both fronts. Follow along after the break …

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:

Ranking the digital living room barbarians: Netflix rules; Apple, Google others likely to struggle — Apple is trying again with Apple TV in an attempt to be the center of the digital living room. The concept isn't new since Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon and others are also targeting your living room.

Discussion: Fortune, ZDNet, Technologizer, Computerworld, Mark Sigal's Blog and Guardian, more at Mediagazer »

Don MacAskill / SmugMug's Don MacAskill:
What the AppleTV should have been — tl;dr: The new AppleTV is a huge disappointment.

Thanks:donmacaskill

Seth Weintraub / Fortune:

Google responds to Steve Jobs' activation counting accusations — At the Apple Event today, Steve Jobs slipped some jabs Google's way but also lauded AppleTV's ability to play YouTube. — There is not much news for Google watchers at Apple events these days and what there is is usually bad.

Discussion: AppleInsider, Digital Daily, msnbc.com, Mashable!, IntoMobile, The Register, Silicon Alley Insider, Android Phone Fans, Search Engine Land, Engadget, WebProNews and Mobile Entertainment, more at Mediagazer »

Declan McCullagh / CNET News:

Twitter plans to record all links clicked — By the end of the year, Twitter expects to be recording and analyzing every link users click on when using its Web site or any of the thousands of third-party microblogging apps. — An e-mail announcement Wednesday night said “all users” …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, SocialTimes.com, Off On A Tangent, UMBC ebiquity, SelectStart and Between the Lines Blog

James Ledbetter / Slate:

Why is everyone always writing off Netflix? — People who think and write about technology companies for a living are prone to be wrong now and again. Try to find, for example, veteran analysts or journalists who haven't at some point made a claim about Apple that they didn't later regret.

Michael Oryl / Mobile Burn:

Verizon offers unlimited and 25MB pre-paid data plans — News by Michael Oryl on Thursday September 02, 2010. — Today Verizon Wireless introduced new 3G data plans for its pre-paid users. Two plans are now available to pre-paid customers: a month of unlimited data for $30 …

Discussion: mocoNews, Verizon, Android Phone Fans and MobileCrunch

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

September Surprise: AOL Reups and Expands Search Agreement With Google — In a surprisingly quick and even stealthy move, AOL has renewed and expanded its search agreement with Google, even though many had expected there to be more competitive bidding throughout the fall to win the deal.

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

About Those 99-Cent TV Episodes Being Sold On Amazon ... If you want to own Glee episodes at a cut-rate price, better get your Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) downloads fast. The e-tailer is countering Apple's 99-cent rentals from ABC (NYSE: DIS) and Fox by selling some TV episodes at a loss.

Discussion: VideoNuze, Wall Street Journal, Neowin.net, Gizmodo, everythingiCafe, I4U News and Apple, more at Mediagazer »

Agence France Presse:

Walkman outsells iPod in Japan for first time — TOKYO — In a rare victory for Sony over arch-rival Apple, the Walkman portable music player outsold the iPod in Japan in monthly sales for the first time in August, a survey showed Thursday. — Sony's share of the Japanese market …

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Google Sued Over Nexus One 3G Connectivity Problems, Misleading Claims — On Tuesday, Google was slapped with a breach of contract class action lawsuit alleging that its Nexus One smartphone failed to maintain 3G connectivity and that the Mountain View company not only made misleading claims …

Discussion: Pulse2, Inquirer, Android Phone Fans, TechEye and IntoMobile

Paul Miller / Engadget:

Toshiba Folio 100 goes official, lands in Q4 — If Samsung's Galaxy Tab reads like a how-to for making a decent Android tablet, Toshiba's Folio 100 seems to serve an opposite purpose (starting with that unfortunate name), which is disappointing for a company like Toshiba.

Discussion: Inquirer, The Toybox Blog, jkkmobile, Androinica, Electronista, GottaBeMobile, Liliputing, netbooknews.com and Softpedia News

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

On Its Second Birthday, Google Chrome Officially Hits Version 6 — Ever since it became stable enough to use on a day-to-day basis on a Mac last year, Google Chrome has been my browser of choice. Other browsers have been adding some nice features — but Chrome keeps adding them faster.

Discussion: Google Chrome Releases, Google Operating System, ReadWriteWeb, Google Chrome Blog, Download Squad, eWeek, CNET News, gHacks Technology News, Web Browsers, Techie Buzz, Electronista and Search Engine Journal

Leena Rao / TechCrunchIT:

Dell Withdraws From 3PAR Bidding War, HP Wins With $2.4B Offer — It looks like the bidding war for 3PAR could be over. Dell has just issued a release indicating that it will not increase its most recent $2 billion proposal to acquire 3PAR, and the company's has ended acquisition talks for the data storage company.

John Boitnott / VentureBeat:

Reddit ‘excited’ about chance to eat Digg's lunch — For a long time now, Digg has been the king of technology news aggregation. Tech fans liked the way they could rate their favorite tech stories highly, and see links to those rise to the top of the site's home page.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Download Squad, Thanks:jboitnott

Peter Parkes / The Big Blog:

Make group video calls with up to 10 people with the new beta version of Skype for Windows — Today we've released an update to Skype for Windows. The second beta of Skype 5.0 brings a number of changes both outside and in - most importantly, you can now make group video calls with up to 10 people.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:

(Not so) Crazy Microsoft Rumors: A new Zune HD? — As part of my job as a full-time Microsoft watcher, I get a lot of tips about Microsoft from customers, competitors, partners and even some Softies themselves. However, ever since I worked for PCWeek as a reporter more than 15 years ago …

Discussion: Geek.com, Engadget, Mobility Site, Bink.nu and WMExperts

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:

Android App Developers Endure Lower Sales in Search of Growth — Pinger Inc., a developer of mobile applications, can get twice as much in sales from programs for Apple devices than for phones powered by Android software. That's not stopping it from creating its first Android app.

Discussion: GigaOM

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