The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Palm and Sprint announcing Pre availability May 19th in the WSJ?  —  We just got a tip from a very proven tipster who informed us that Palm and Sprint were set to make a big announcement in the Wall Street Journal on May 19th.  They said that there’s […]

Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook to test payments system with developers “in a few weeks”  —  Developers may be making tens of millions of dollars through games and virtual goods on Facebook’s platform, but the social network itself hasn’t had a way to get a share of that money.  This may be about to change […]

Google News Blog:
More ways to see the story  —  Last Thursday we launched a new format for story pages on Google News.  These are the pages you see when you click the “all [#] news articles” link of each cluster of articles which cover the same news event—or “story,” as we say on the […]

Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Microsoft’s next Apple price attack: Zune Pass vs iTunes  —  Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter ads (one, two, three, and four) must be doing quite well, because what Microsoft started off as a price attack on Macs seems to have transcended over to the online music store business.

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Looked At Buying New York Times Stake, Passed  —  Harbinger Capital, the “activist” investor that bought a 19% stake in the New York Times (NYT) last year only to lose its shirt, is now shopping the stake to anyone who will listen.  —  In recent weeks, says Fortune’s […]

Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Sony CEO Howard Stringer on music: “If we had gone with open technology from the start, I think we probably would have beaten Apple”  —  We’ve always had a soft spot for Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer, and it sounds like the old man’s doing more than cajoling Tom Hanks into […]

Chris Matyszczyk / CNET News:
Facebook confirms removal of two Holocaust denial groups.  Is it enough?  —  Facebook has confirmed my earlier suspicion that it has disabled two of the five Holocaust denial groups whose presence has caused much controversy over the past week, following attorney Brian Cuban’s consistent pressure for the groups’ removal.

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Lack of Vision To Blame for Newspaper Woes  —  Is this it?  —  Is the product you are accustomed to holding in your hands a relic, soon to go the way of silent movies and manual typewriters?  —  I have been one of the industry’s most fervent optimists, convinced that […]

Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft confirms Windows 7 coming this year  —  This won’t come as a surprise, but Microsoft is planning to release Windows 7 this year, in time for the holiday shopping season.  —  What is new is that the software maker is finally willing to put itself on the line and […]

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Amazon re-Kindles the iPhone  —  It took Amazon (AMZN) less than a month after the release of the second-generation Kindle electronic-book reader to put a free Kindle application on the iPhone App Store.  It took another two months for it to fix the app’s second most annoying drawback …