Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Apple won’t let you use cool augmented reality iPhone apps — yet  —  A concept video for an identification app, called Augmented ID, that uses facial recognition.  —  IPhone owners are excited to get their hands on the augmented reality applications that we wrote about last week … […]

Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Obama White House loves BlackBerry but bars Twitter  —  Barack Obama’s White House, home of the famously BlackBerrying president and first lady, has blocked online access to Twitter.  —  White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made the admission today (see C-SPAN video below) …

Steve Ragan / The Tech Herald:
Network Solutions: 573,928 possibly compromised in attack  —  Network Solutions issued a Data Security Alert (DSA) on Friday, which reported the discovery of malicious code planted on servers supporting their E-Commerce merchants’ websites.  The code, discovered on 4,343 Network Solutions customer sites …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Source: Verizon Hurrying To Launch LTE By Early 2010, Perhaps For Apple  —  So, it’s looking more and more likely that a large form iPod touch, which we first reported on last December, is coming sometime in the next 6 months.  But there are still a lot of unknown variables and […]

Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Leak: Inside the Microsoft Store With Wall-Sized Screens and the Answers Bar  —  We’ve been wondering what the Microsoft’s retail shops are going to be like.  Well, according to a Powerpoint presentation leaked to us, it’s going to make the Apple Store look downright boring.

Erik Sherman / BNET Technology:
Is AP Run By Idiots?  —  Sometimes you see a business move so stupid, so clearly self-damaging that you have to wonder whether someone inside the corporation is trying to torpedo it.  And that’s exactly what is happening at the Associated Press, as it gears up to wage war on […]

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
How (and why) to replace the AP  —  The Associated Press is becoming the enemy of the internet because it is fighting the link and the link is the basis of the internet.  From Richard Perez-Pena’s New York Times story today: … Them’s fightin’ words: quoting an article’s headline while linking […]

Ina Fried / CNET News:
Sprint CEO: We’re glad we waited on Android  —  PASADENA, Calif.—Sprint CEO Dan Hesse talked a lot about the mobile operating system he held off on—Android—and not so much about the phone he has backed, Palm’s Pre.  —  Hesse said Friday here at Fortune’s Brainstorm …

EU Press Room:
Antitrust: Commission welcomes new Microsoft proposals on Microsoft Internet Explorer and Interoperability … The European Commission can confirm that Microsoft has proposed a consumer ballot screen as a solution to the pending antitrust case about the tying of Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser with Windows.

Alexei Oreskovic / MediaFile:
Ex-Facebookers could lose out on stock sale  —  Facebook shareholders got the long-awaited gift of liquidity last week when Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies began buying up to $100 million of Facebook common stock from current and former employees.  —  The latter group however …