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Samuel W. Lessin / Facebook Blog:
Tell Your Story with Timeline  —  Since the beginning of Facebook, your profile has been the place where you tell your story.  People use it to share everything from the small stuff, like their thoughts on an article, to the most important events of their lives, like the photos of their wedding or the birth of their child.
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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Facebook f8: Mark Zuckerberg on music, media and social apps - live  —  We follow the announcements at the social network's annual developer conference in the wake of a series of changes to Facebook's design  —  10.16am: He has!  Respect.  Eisenberg is on stage now.
Megan / LAUNCH:
Andy Samberg Impersonates Zuckerberg at F8  —  Comedian Andy Samberg kicked off F8 by impersonating Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.  —  Samberg joked about adding a new section for “I'm not really friends with these people.”  (We wish).  Still, Facebook is expected to launch major updates today at F8 in San Francisco.
Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, Thanks:jason
Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
Facebook Introduces Open Graph, Lets You Share Music, Movies, And More  —  Facebook announced the latest addition to the social graph.  —  Instead of “liking” objects, you can participate in events.  That means watching movies, going on trips, reading a book, whatever.  —  Live updates below.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Zuckerberg: As Many As 500 Million People Have Been On Facebook In A Single Day
Discussion: Mashable!
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Whitman Expected to Get HP CEO Nod After Markets Close (and Not for the Interim Either)  —  Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is poised to be named the new CEO of Hewlett-Packard later today after the markets are closed, said multiple sources close to the situation.
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James B. Stewart / New York Times:
Voting to Hire a Chief Without Meeting Him  —  The mystery isn't why Hewlett-Packard is likely to part ways with its chief executive, Léo Apotheker, after just a year in the job.  It's why he was hired in the first place.  —  The answer, say many involved in the process, lies squarely with the troubled Hewlett board.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Employee Reveals Killer Facebook Music Feature In Deleted Tweet  —  Facebook Music is launching tomorrow.  This, everyone knows.  But not everyone knows exactly how it will work, since Facebook been tweaking things right up until launch.  But tonight one Facebook employee accidentally revealed …
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
New HTC users to get 5GB free Dropbox service  —  Microsoft has Skydrive, Apple has iCloud, and now HTC has Dropbox following a new partnership between the phone maker and popular cloud storage service.  —  HTC has confirmed to Pocket-lint that users of its latest Android handsets …
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Verizon goes to bat for AT&T, defends T-Mobile merger  —  Verizon Communications chief executive Lowell McAdam has gone on record in suggesting that the company's biggest rival, AT&T, should be allowed to complete its proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA.
Jennifer Valentino-Devries / Wall Street Journal:
‘Stingray’ Phone Tracker Fuels Constitutional Clash  —  For more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply “the Hacker.”  Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device—a stingray—were they able to zero in on a California home and make the arrest.
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Color Recasts Itself as a Facebook Photo and Video App  —  Back in March, a splashy start-up called Color Labs introduced a cellphone app that let people share pictures with friends and strangers nearby.  The service seemed to have everything going for it: an accomplished serial entrepreneur …
Discussion: Mashable! and Engadget
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Color Targets New Facebook-Powered App Exclusively To Harvard Students
Discussion: @parislemon
Phil Milford / Bloomberg:
Apple Sued by Via Technologies Over Microprocessor Patents  —  Apple Inc., the world's biggest technology company by value, was sued by Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. (2388) for allegedly infringing three U.S. patents for microprocessors used in mobile phones and tablet computers.
Josh Williams / Gowalla:
A New Gowalla  —  Nearly three years ago I sat on a beach at Lake Tahoe and watched as a large low-flying cloud hung above the lake, creating the backdrop for a beautiful weekend of solitude.  As much as I enjoyed the time alone to clear my thoughts, I was overwhelmed with the desire to share this experience with someone.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Apple's iPad to have ‘free run’ in holiday shopping season  —  Summary: Garter says that until Android can get its hardware, software and services act together, the tablet market belongs to Apple's iPad.  —  Apple's iPad is likely to be unchallenged in the tablet market this holiday shopping season, according to Gartner projections.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Netflix split to set up Amazon streaming merger?  —  Summary: Netflix's move to separate its DVD-by-mail service may pave the way for Amazon to buy the company, argues an analyst.  —  Netflix CEO Reed Hastings may have a trick up his sleeve as he separates the streaming and DVD-by-mail businesses: A sale to Amazon.
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Next Oracle-Google settlement talks possibly without the Larrys — damages claims may be higher than ever  —  Following the second court-ordered mediation conference between Oracle and Google, which took place on Wednesday, the magistrate judge moderating this settlement effort entered an order …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Anonymous Declares Sept 24 “Day Of Vengence” In The US, Plans A “Series Of Cyber Attacks”  —  Hacktivist group Anonymous have been busy bees this year, and they're not planning to cool down any time soon.  Earlier this morning, Anonymous (or some 12-year old kid labeling himself Anonymous …
Twitter UK:
Gleeful  —  People come to Twitter to connect with the latest information on the topics and people they care about.  From the beginning, brands, businesses and charitable organisations have been an important part of the Twitter experience, providing people with special announcements …
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
‘iPhone 4S’ cases already arriving at AT&T stores [updated]  —  BGR has obtained images of refreshed iPhone 4 cases that have started to show up at AT&T corporate stores around the country, and there's one noticeable difference: the size of the opening for the rear camera.
Steven Bertoni / Forbes:
Sean Parker: Agent Of Disruption  —  Pointed toward his 18-acre compound in Marin County, Sean Parker rips through the night fog on the Golden Gate Bridge in a stealthy Audi S6 that masks a Lamborghini engine, one pale hand on the wheel, the other toggling through thousands of songs uploaded on the car's sound system.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple's iPhone has 89% retention rate, next nearest hardware is HTC at 39%  —  A whopping 89 percent of iPhone owners have indicated they will stick with Apple for their next handset, dwarfing all other hardware makers, according to a new survey.  —  The next nearest competitor to Apple …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Mozilla proposes not-so-rapid-release Firefox  —  Under the Mozilla proposal, a new Extended Support Release version of Firefox would arrive every 30 weeks.  —  Mozilla, faced with business users' stiff resistance to its new rapid update schedule for Firefox, has proposed a slower-moving version of the browser.
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
HTC: Beats Audio Windows Phones in the pipeline  —  HTC has confirmed it is working with Beats Audio to bring the company's music technology to Windows Phone handsets.  Speaking to SlashGear at an HTC event today about the prospect of Beats - which currently features on the HTC Sensation XE …
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Facebook users protest changes to News Feed, new ‘ticker’  —  Maybe it's time for Facebook to finally roll out that “dislike” button.  —  Facebook is getting an earful about changes it made to the News Feed right before its annual developers conference Thursday.
 
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What Are You Doing With Your iPad? Playing Around, Buying Apps, Watching Netflix.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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