Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Exclusive: First Look at the BlackBerry Storm 2!!  —  BOOM.  Here it is CrackBerry Nation, your FIRST look at the BlackBerry Storm TWO.  I’m not even sure what to say here… other than a super trusty source sent us in these pictures of RIM’s next generation of BlackBerry touchscreen.

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Google Lifts Ban on Trademark Terms for Search Ads  —  Move Could Increase Keyword Costs for Blue-Chip Brands  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Get ready for an influx of brand names in Google keyword ads.  The search giant, which until now has prohibited the use of trademarked brand terms …

Craig Labovitz / Arbor Networks Security:
The Great GoogleLapse  —  Web sites go down.  Circuits fail.  Network engineers goof router configs.  And few of these outages ever make the nightly news…  But if you happen to be Google and your content constitutes up to 5% of all Internet traffic, people notice.

Craig Labovitz / Arbor Networks Security:
The Great GoogleLapse  —  Your web sites go down.  Circuits fail.  Network engineers goof router configs.  And mostly you don’t worry about making the nightly news.  —  But if you happen to be Google and your content constitutes up to 5% of all Internet traffic, people notice.

Biz / Twitter Blog:
The Replies Kerfuffle  —  Twitter evolves and thrives on how folks use it.  Some of our best features are invented by users, so listening is extremely valuable.  Replies and conversations are awesome and we fully intend to support and encourage their growth.

Tameka Kee / paidContent.org:
@ EconSM: How Twitter Plans To Make Money From Search, Carriers and Content  —  We’ve gotten hints about Twitter’s business model from its founders, its backers and random speculators—but Kevin Thau, Twitter’s director of mobile business development, gave EconSM attendees a more tangible picture …

Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple, AT&T sued over ties to Shazam music ID service  —  Apple, AT&T and several others have been named in a new patent infringement lawsuit, presumably for their connection to Shazam, a maker of music identification software distributed under the same name for the iPhone and several other mobile devices.

Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple, AT&T sued over ties to Shazam music ID service  —  Apple, AT&T and several others have been named in a new patent infringement lawsuit, presumably for their connection to Shazam, a maker of music identification software distributed under the same name for the iPhone and several other mobile devices.

Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook to finally launch “Verified Apps” program (and more)  —  What makes a Facebook application good?  The social network is going to try to make that clearer to users in the next few weeks, when it introduces a program it’s been talking about since last year, called Verified Apps .

Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook will finally launch “Verified Apps” program (and more)  —  What makes a Facebook application good?  The social network is going to try to make that clearer to users in the next few weeks, when it introduces a program it’s been talking about since last year, called Verified Apps .