Aviram / SecuriTeam Blogs:
Finding the name behind the gmail address  —  Ever wondered what name is behind some obscure gmail address?  Maybe your preferred gmail address was taken and you’re wondering who took it?  —  Here’s a cute vulnerability in the gmail system that comes from the strong tie-ins between gmail …

John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Kindle 2.0 Coming Around October 2008  —  An insider let slip that two new Amazon Kindle models will hit stores this holiday season, with the first coming as early as October.  —  The first is an updated version with the same sized screen, a smaller form factor, and an improved interface.

John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Microsoft tells Congress Yahoogle will own 90% of ad market  —  A US Senate subcommittee heard testimony today about the competitive implications of Yahoo’s recent deal with Google, which will see the company mix ads supplied by Google with its own on search result pages.

Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
TiVo Summer Update (9.4) Trickles Out  —  As TiVo does, they’ve started rolling out the summer software update ahead of a general release.  In fact, the priority page hasn’t been updated yet.  Though, I hear all boxes should be upgraded by the end of the month.  Of the disclosed […]

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Nintendo’s New Wii Features: Musical Instruments, Speakerphone  —  Nintendo’s (NTDOY) latest from the E3 gaming expo: WiiMusic — its take on “Rock Band” and “Guitar Hero” — and “WiiSpeak,” a speakerphone adapter.  —  What do they do?  —  WiiMusic turns Wii controllers you already have …

Business Wire:
Intel Posts Record Second-Quarter Revenue of $9.5 Billion  —  SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Intel Corporation today announced record second-quarter revenue of $9.5 billion, operating income of $2.3 billion, net income of $1.6 billion and earnings per share (EPS) of 28 cents.

The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Bold review: we’ve been rockin’ it for a month  —  This might be a shocker out there to many, but we do actually, you know, not leak things from time to time.  What’s important here, is that we’ve been rockin’ a BlackBerry Bold for around a month […]

David Faber / CNBC.com:
SK Telecom in Talks to Acquire Sprint: Sources  —  SK Telecom, which is smaller than Sprint  —  [S Loading…  () ], would be joined in any deal by private equity firms that would contribute cash towards the purchase, sources told CNBC.  —  A deal is not […]

Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Buys Summize For About $15M: Gets Search - And Maybe A Business Model  —  Now it’s a done deal.  Twitter has purchased search engine Summize, a deal that leaked out last week but didn’t wrap up until the last few days.  Twitter’s Biz Stone has the official announcement […]

Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Test feature shows social search may be on the way for Google  —  A lucky Google user, Adrian Pike, has noticed something cool on search results: buttons to vote on links, much like Digg or StumbleUpon.  He sent some screenshots over to TechCrunch.  —  The feature is being “bucket tested […]