Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
Enable tethering shortcut found - iPhone 3.0 is Live!  —  iPhone 3.0 is live! so we are going to repost our tethering tutorial with some big improvements.  You now don’t have to do any downgrading or torrenting.  Seems you can just run a little command in terminal (Make […]

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Fires Back At Bing, Launches “Explore Google Search”  —  I wrote earlier that it was probably driving Google crazy to see people “amazed” that Bing is doing stuff that Google itself has long offered.  Now Google’s fighting back.  The first shot?  A new Explore Google Search page.

Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:
iPhone 3.0 Software Walkthrough  —  Waiting to download iPhone 3.0?  Trying to figure out exactly what’s included in the new OS?  Wondering what’s changed since iPhone 2.2.1?  Need a handy link to send your friends who may have questions?  TiPb’s got your back with our complete iPhone 3.0 Software […]

Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Facebook hit by privacy blow  —  European privacy regulators could be about to throw a spanner into the works of attempts by social networking sites such as Facebook to find new ways to increase profits as they try to restrict the way internet groups release personal data.

Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3.0 Upgrade Process Deactivating Some Phones From AT&T (Update: Working Now)  —  We just got a load of tips from readers that the iPhone 3.0 update is sending their iPhone 3Gs into an unrecoverable mode where the activation process won’t complete.  —  The message above is the one iTunes spits […]

Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3.0 Upgrade Process Deactivating Some Phones From AT&T  —  We just got a load of tips from readers that the iPhone 3.0 update is sending their iPhone 3Gs into an unrecoverable mode where the activation process won’t complete.  —  The message above is the one iTunes spits out if you’re […]

Business Week:
Iran’s Twitter Revolution?  Maybe Not Yet  —  Some Iranian election protesters used Twitter to get people on the streets, but most of the organizing happened the old-fashioned way  —  Media across the globe have been focusing on a “Twitter Revolution” in Iran as hundreds of thousands …

David Pogue / New York Times:
Apple Fills In Some Gaps With Latest iPhone  —  Assessing the 2007 and 2008 iPhone models was an excruciating experience.  You were torn right in half — between your heart and your head.  —  Your emotions were swept away by everything Apple does so well: beauty, polish, elegance, simplicity […]

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPhone 3G S review  —  If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it — right?  We know countless reviews of the iPhone 3G S may begin with that cliché, but there’s little chance you’d find a better way to describe the strategy that Apple has just put into play with its latest […]

Paul Carr / Guardian:
And we’ll tweet at the end of the tour  —  Episode 32: In which I attend Jeff Pulver’s 140 Characters conference and pay tribute to the brilliance of his no-connectivity plan  —  I’m trying to imagine how it happened.  The point at which, perhaps three weeks ago, Jeff Pulver convened … […]