Josh Wiseman / Facebook Blog:
Facebook Chat: Now We’re Talking  —  This week marks the launch of Facebook Chat—a new way for you to communicate with your friends in real-time.  The Wall and Inbox have been the primary ways to communicate, but when more immediacy is necessary—for example when making plans for lunch …

BBC:
Europe clears mobiles on aircraft  —  The use of mobiles on planes flying in European airspace has been given formal approval by the European Commission.  —  The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an altitude of 3,000m or more.

Business Wire:
Yahoo!’s Board of Directors Responds to Latest Microsoft Letter  —  The Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today sent the following letter to Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation.  —  Dear Steve:

Harry McCracken / Techlog:
The Frustratingly Unfulfilled Promise of Google Gears  —  Back on May 30th of last year, Google released Google Gears, a browser plug-in designed to help Web-based applications work even when they couldn’t connect to the Internet.  I was pretty jazzed up about it, and so were my PCW colleagues …

Reuters:
Yahoo not opposed to Microsoft deal: source  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo is not opposed to a deal with Microsoft but Microsoft should pay more than $31 a share if it wants to buy the company, Yahoo plans to say in a letter to Microsoft, a person familiar with the matter said on […]

Charles Cooper / Coop’s Corner:
For some reason, Twitter hasn’t yet taken the journalist community by storm  —  After the derision which greeted the New York Times’ blogging will kill you story on Sunday, I’m probably not going to do much for the reputation of the mainstream media with hard-core bloggers.  So it goes.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Comcast, Twitter And The Chicken (trust me, I have a point)  —  I’ve had a very odd weekend.  —  First, I’ve taken a dozen or so phone calls from concerned relatives and friends over this NYTimes article.  But a bigger issue is that the Internet was down in the house starting […]