Techmeme: Twitter feed lawsuit underscores power of a tweet (Marcus Wohlsen/Associated Press)

1:50 PM ET, May 15, 2011

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Patrick Seybold / PlayStation Blog:

Play On - PSN Restoration Begins Now — Thank you for your patience and encouragement over the last few weeks. As covered in the post from earlier today, you can now update the firmware on your PS3 and change your password. Kazuo Hirai just announced that we have begun the phased restoration …

Damon Poeter / PC Magazine:

Sony PSN Back Online, Just Not Everywhere — Sony Online Entertainment brought its PlayStation Network back online in parts of Europe and the U.S. Saturday, but some 12 hours after the announcement many PSN customers were left wondering when it would be their turn.

Discussion: Daily Mail, The Firewall, ZDNet, International Business Times, Joystiq, Yahoo! News, THN and This is my next

Ludwig Kietzmann / Joystiq:

PlayStation Network restoration begins, first phase includes online play — Following the release of firmware 3.61, Sony has announced that PlayStation Network and Qriocity restoration will be rolled out in phases, country by country, starting with the Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East.

Discussion: Reuters, Kotaku, Bits, Mashable!, VG247 and Massively

Business Week: Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Sean Hollister / Engadget:

RIM recalls at least 900 faulty BlackBerry PlayBooks, here are the serial numbers — We found the BlackBerry PlayBook to be a pretty solid piece of hardware, but it seems there was a problem batch — an inside source tells us that nearly 1,000 faulty tablets were shipped to Staples, and now they're being recalled.

Discussion: Tools, Digital Trends, It's All Tech, CrackBerry.com blogs, PhoneArena, Electronista and The Loop

Andrew Myers / Stanford News:

New Stanford computing lab imagines the mobile-social future — At the MobiSocial Lab, an engineering research team asks fundamental questions about the marriage of mobile communications and social networking, and begins to design the future of open-source social networking.

Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:

Watch out Instapaper: Mac OS X Lion's Safari Reading List to sync with iOS devices — Following the discovery that Mac OS X Lion includes a new Reading List feature in Safari - similar to the popular Instapaper service - Instapaper's creator went on record to say that the feature won't be a competitor until it syncs with iOS devices.

Discussion: Gizmodo, App Advice, Electronista, OS X Daily and MacRumors, Thanks:markgurman

Marcus Wohlsen / Associated Press:

Twitter feed lawsuit underscores power of a tweet — When Adorian Deck was home sick from high school, he entertained himself like countless other teenagers have in recent years: He started a Twitter account. Unlike other teenagers, Deck's account became a sensation.

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Bing Adds Facebook Recommendations to Search — In Battle Against Google, Microsoft Seeks Leg Up in Social Search — Microsoft will begin adding Facebook data to its Bing search results on Tuesday, including the ubiquitous “like,” in another bid to differentiate from arch-rival Google.

Discussion: LiveSide.net, @dannysullivan, @loic and WinRumors

Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:

Why Microsoft bought Skype — There is so much to write about but I'll begin with Microsoft buying Skype for $8.5 billion. The pundits are debating whether this move by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer makes good business sense, but that's the wrong way to look at it.

Discussion: Launch

Electronista:

iPhone ‘5G’ case shows edge-to-edge screen, moved flash — Supposed iPhone 5G case tips up in China — A very early instance of a 2011 iPhone case has shown up in a listing at Asian trading site AliBaba. Guangdong-based Kulcase is selling what it claims is a crystal case for an “iPhone 5G.”

Discussion: PC Magazine, eWeek, AppleInsider, Edible Apple, Gadgets DNA, MacRumors, I4U News, PhoneArena, BGR, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, Softpedia News, TiPb, everythingiCafe, Tools, App Advice, Apple Bitch, MacStories, Gizmodo, iClarified and SAI

Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPhone 5 front and rear-facing camera parts appear, point to relocated camera flash?

Discussion: tw.apple.pro, It's All Tech, TUAW, Sizlopedia, AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, MacStories, Phones Review and iClarified, Thanks:markgurman

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Access To iPad App Flipboard Compromised In China — As of today certain aspects of the Flipboard experience have been blocked for Chinese users, at the very least access to Facebook and Twitter according to Flipboard CEO Mike McCue. While direct access to Facebook and Twitter is routinely blocked …

Discussion: NetworkEffect and Penn Olson

Tom Simonite / Technology Review:

Six Reasons Why Chromebooks Are a Bad Idea — Not everyone thinks Google's attempt to reinvent the computer will work. — When it took the wraps off its stripped down, nothing-but-the-browser Chromebooks this week Google was attempting its own iPad moment.

Discussion: PC World, thechromesource and Computerworld

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