Daniel A. Begun / HotHardware.com News:
Google To Develop ISP Throttling Detector  —  Google has been very vocal on its stance for net neutrality.  Now, Richard Whitt—Senior Policy Director for Google—announces that Google will take an even more active role in the debate by arming consumers with the tools to determine first-hand …

Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
Our Home Town  —  About noon Friday here in California, I happened to click on a Summize tab substituting for Twitter’s Track functionality and monitoring the use of my Twitter screen name.  Someone named Scrabo had tweeted “Rumor here at NBC is that Tim Russert passed away”.

Cade Metz / The Register:
Google preps net neut dowser  —  ‘If Comcast won’t tell you, find out yourself’  —  Innovation 08 In an effort to identify traffic discrimination by American ISPs, Google is prepping a suite of network analysis tools for everyday broadband users.  —  “We’re trying to develop tools …

Tim O’Reilly / O’Reilly Radar:
Why Arrington is Wrong about Yahoo!-Google Deal  —  I was inspired by Fred Wilson’s excellent piece on the subject to add my own two cents to Mike Arrington’s rant about how Yahoo!’s deal with Google is bad for the industry.  I wrote the following in Arrington’s comment stream, and will […]

Benwilson / iPhone Atlas:
AT&T: no iPhone 3G tethering for you!  —  With the iPhone 3G’s significantly faster data transfer rates and ability to perform voice and data functions simultaneously, potential buyers have become intoxicated with the idea of tethering the device: using it as a cellular modem for laptops …

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Interview with Microsoft’s Robbie Bach, part 2, on Xbox 360  —  The biggest business in Robbie Bach’s Entertainment & Devices Group at Microsoft is the Xbox 360 video game business.  After many years of losses, the game business is poised to turn a profit, as is the E&D group itself, for […]

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft’s Not Bluffing  —  Look, it might be the biggest poker bluff in history and analysts are once again chattering that Yahoo’s ad outsourcing deal with Google might force Microsoft back to make another offer for the Internet portal.  —  Sorry to be the skunk at Carl Icahn’s garden party, but […]

Cameron Wilmot / TweakTown:
TweakTown’s VIDEO unboxing of ASUS Eee PC 1000H!  —  TWEAKTOWN EXCLUSIVE We got word that the ASUS Eee PC 1000 and 1000H was to begin selling on Wednesday this week in Taiwan and we instantly set about trying to buy one.  —  The new 10-inch Intel Atom powered sub-notebooks with 802.11n […]

Robert Holmes / TheStreet.com:
AT&T Mulls Surcharge for High DSL Use  —  AAPL (The Telecom Connection PICK) CMCSA NFLX T TWC  —  AT&T T is considering a surcharge for customers who go above the normal amount of downloaded data on the Internet.  —  AT&T spokesman Michael Coe says that given the trends the company is […]

James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Breaking news- eReader for the iPhone in the works  —  I read so many ebooks and I do it using the great reader application eReader.  I have over 350 books in my eReader bookshelf and was happy to hear from the Fictionwise founder that they would continue to develop versions of […]