Thomas Crampton:
Reporter to NY Times Publisher: You Erased My Career  —  Hell hath no fury like a reporter deleted.  —  I have a major personal and professional gripe against The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune.  —  For more than a decade, as you know, I enjoyed a wonderful and globe-trotting career […]

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Rampant Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX’s Savior  —  Earlier this week, we got our first glimpse of the Kindle DX, Amazon’s upcoming E-book reader that has taken the original Kindle’s nearly prohibitive $359 price tag and bumped it up to an even more exorbitant $489 for good measure.

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitterrific Comes Roaring Back Into The iPhone Twitter App Wars  —  During the past several months, a war has been brewing between Twitter apps for the iPhone.  But it’s been largely two-sided.  You were either in the Twitterfon camp or the Tweetie camp.  And if you were using any other app […]

Om Malik / GigaOM:
T-Mobile to Launch Many Android Devices Later This Year  —  T-Mobile USA is looking to introduce Android-based devices from three different manufacturers, Cole Brodman, chief technology officer of the company, said in a conversation with me earlier today.  Android is a mobile OS developed …

Tom Espiner / ZDNet:
EC wants software makers held liable for code  —  Software companies could be held responsible for the security and efficacy of their products, if a new European Commission consumer protection proposal becomes law.  —  Commissioners Viviane Reding and Meglena Kuneva have proposed …

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Fights In The Google Monopoly Debate Miss Key Points  —  The noise about whether Google is a monopoly that needs to be controlled continues to ramp up, with Google itself releasing a “charm offensive” set of slides after its lobbying using those slides was outed by Consumer Watchdog.

Rogers Cadenhead / Workbench:
Bloglines Offline for Hours (and Outsourced to China)  —  Things aren’t looking good today at Bloglines, the popular web-based service I’ve been using for years to read RSS feeds.  The site has been offline for at least eight hours and isn’t even responding to web requests with an error.

David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
NASA astronaut will tweet, take YouTube questions … live from space  —  NASA astronaut Mark Polansky is planning to take social media out of this world.  —  In a YouTube video posted today, Polansky said that during his crew’s mission to the International Space Station, scheduled for June […]