Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google uncloaks once-secret server  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but the company for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet might at a conference here about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency.

Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Hulu begins encrypting HTML content to thwart non-browser apps  —  It looks like Hulu’s trying yet another ill-fated tactic to keep its content restricted to traditional browsers and off things like Boxee — TunerFreeMCE’s Martin Millmore says Hulu’s HTML is now encrypted at the source and then decrypted using Javascript on […]

TechCrunch:
Is Twitter Turning Into MySpace?  —  Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Mrinal Desai, who was an early employee of LinkedIn before he co-founded CrossLoop, a startup funded by El Dorado and Venrock.  You can follow him on Twitter.  —  I try and test many social services …

The Official Palm Blog:
The webOS developer community leaps ahead  —  Today, Palm expanded the Mojo SDK program for webOS, announcing that a broad group of developers will be provided with the software development kit to create applications for the Palm Pre phone (as well as other future devices running webOS).

Jon Zilber / The Official Palm Blog:
The webOS developer community leaps ahead  —  Today, Palm expanded the Mojo SDK program for webOS, announcing that a broad group of developers will be provided with the software development kit to create applications for the Palm Pre phone (as well as other future devices running webOS).

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Palm announces webOS SDK availability, Palm OS emulation for Pre, new cloud services  —  Well, it’s not quite the release date and price you were hoping for, but it’s definitely something.  Today Palm — via a short keynote at the Web 2. Expo — announced that the company would begin taking […]

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
AT&T Offers a $50 Netbook and Bundled Broadband Package  —  Updated: Holy price cuts, Ma Bell!  AT&T is rolling out a trial of subsidized netbooks in its Atlanta retail stores, where it will have some netbooks (or “mini laptops,” in AT&T speak) for $49.95 (on the high end you’re gonna pay […]

Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
AT&T May Enter E-Book Market, Challenging Sprint Service for Kindle Reader  —  AT&T Inc., the second-largest U.S. mobile phone carrier, may enter the e-book market as the company looks for new ways to spur growth.  —  Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle, which lets users download books …

Ed Oswald / Technologizer:
Facebook’s Problem is the Management  —  Shockwaves were felt throughout Silicon Valley when the social networking site announced that one of its star hires, CFO Gideon Yu, had been fired.  Although Facebook claims that it is looking for someone with “public company experience,” …

AT&T:
AT&T Offers Mini Laptops, ‘Internet at Home and On the Go,’ and Onsite Tech Support from Retail Stores  —  Select AT&T Stores Trial Promotional Mini Laptop Pricing, Complimentary ConnecTech® Consultations; ‘Internet at Home and On the Go’ Broadband Service