Jared Newman / Technologizer:
Games Industry Suffers From Recession, Finally  —  After a few months of lagging sales, market researcher NPD Group is finally saying the recession caught up with the video games industry.  All it took was for gaming to suffer its biggest year-over-year sales drop in 9 years.

Biz / Twitter Blog:
Someone Call Security  —  Early yesterday, we were contacted by two blog journalists who had just been offered internal business documents stolen from Twitter by a hacker.  —  First, it’s important to note how these documents were stolen.  In this case, a Twitter employee used the same non-unique password on multiple […]

Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Google’s Eyeing Cellphones For Chrome OS  —  At today’s Mobilebeat 2009 Conference, Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra spoke about mobile platforms and what enables success.  Interestingly enough, Gundotra quickly mentioned web app development as the future of successful mobile platforms.

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet”  —  On Tuesday evening more than 300 confidential Twitter documents and screenshots landed in our inbox.  We said we were going to post a handful of them only, and we’ve spent much of the last 36 hours talking directly […]

Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Amazon makes good on cracked Kindles  —  Excerpts from the blog After countless calls and e-mails, Amazon.com finally responded to the story we broke Tuesday about a Seattle customer…  Excerpts from the blog  —  After countless calls and e-mails, Amazon.com finally responded to the story …

Wayne Rosso / THE MUSiC VOiD:
Exclusive: The Pirate Bay 2.0  —  Dateline London: On June 30, news broke that The Pirate Bay had been purchased by a little known publicly traded company named Global Gaming Factory X based in Stockholm.  Having been through the p2p wars in my own rite, the only thing I […]

Google Investor Relations:
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES SECOND QUARTER 2009 RESULTS  —  Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2009.  —  “Google had a very good quarter, especially given the continued macro-economic downturn.  While most of the world’s largest economies shrank …

Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Surprise: Twitter Would Rather You Not Follow the Site That Leaked Its Hacked Files  —  Twitter’s Suggested User List has been controversial lately, since it’s tremendously valuable yet tremendously mysterious.  Well, the microblogging startup just cleared up one thing: Cross Twitter, and you’re off the list.

Sam Bayard / citmedialaw.org:
First Amendment Protects TechCrunch’s Publication of (Some) Hacked Twitter Documents  —  in - Criminal - Journalism - Publication of Private Facts - Twitter  —  There’s an interesting debate afoot about TechCrunch’s decision to publish selected documents it received from someone who hacked …

Roman Loyola / Macworld:
First look: Comcast Mobile App for iPhone  —  Comcast is one of the largest cable TV and Internet service providers in the United States, and the company on Thursday released the Comcast Mobile App for iPhone (iTunes Store link), which allows you to access some of Comcast’s services from your iPhone […]