Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Liveblogging From Yahoo’s “Open House”: Sexy Email and Barbara Mandrell!  —  Okay, BoomTown arrived late to Yahoo’s media event this morning to show off its “open” strategies across its properties (I had a most excellent excuse in that it was my youngest son’s very first day of school).

AppleInsider:
New iPod touch, iPod nano gutted in disassembly photos  —  Both Apple’s second-generation iPod touch and fourth-generation iPod nano are expected to be widely available at Apple Retail stores today.  The folks at iFixIt have already snagged one of each, tore them down, and weighed in with some observations.

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soon  —  If you liked the first Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld ad for Microsoft, you’ll probably love the second.  If you didn’t, there’s hope: A more Windows-centric one will air in a matter of days, according to Microsoft officials.

Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley’s blog:
Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, take two: Bill’s mother ship over Seattle  —  Now we know what they’re up to.  —  The second Bill Gates-Seinfeld ad that’s debuting tonight during “Big Brother” on CBC is a million times better than the freaky churro spot that kicked off the $300 […]

Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
RIM announces ‘lifestyle’ apps for BlackBerry  —  Research in Motion is loading BlackBerry devices with what its co-CEO Jim Balsillie calls ‘lifestyle’ applications.  —  SAN FRANCISCO—In what looks like an attempt to compete toe-to-toe with Apple’s iPhone, Research in Motion announced …

James Sherwood / The Register:
Net-talking toaster to burn news onto bread  —  Many things have appeared on toast before: Marmite, Vegemite, jam and even Cylons from Battlestar Galactica.  Now a designer’s invented a toaster that’s able to burn pretty much anything onto your morning slice, including the news.

Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
IPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do  —  Your iPhone is watching you.  —  If you’ve got an iPhone, pretty much everything you have done on your handset has been temporarily stored as a screenshot that hackers or forensics experts could eventually recover, according to a renowned iPhone hacker […]

WhatLaptop:
Samsung Netbook official photos…  The Samsung Netbook isn’t vapourware, as these official shots of the Netbook prove.  —  The still unnamed Netbook is set for launch at the end of October, and orders are already in place with resellers.  Demand has been so positive that Samsung UK has rushed these first shots of the […]

Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing Mobile Search with My Location  —  From time to time, we all need information about local businesses when we’re away from our computers — like confirming the address of a bar while on the way to meet friends.  Today we’re introducing Search with My Location …

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Mobile Email Gadget Peek Starts Selling Online, Gets NYT Pogue Slobbering  —  NY-based gadget startup Peek — whose mobile device does email, and nothing else — has started selling its gadget on the Web ahead of its nationwide launch at Target stores next Monday.