Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
The Palm Pixi is official, headed to Sprint this holiday season — we’ve got hands-on and video!  —  The Palm Pixi has officially arrived, and if you’re an avid reader of Engadget (you’d better be), this device should look a little bit familiar to you.  We first broke specs and images […]

foursquare:
A few thoughts on foursquare’s seed financing…  Hey all -  —  So, we wanted to say a few words about our round of seed financing that we didn’t get to say last Friday.  First of all, we can’t be any happier.  The financing - split between Union Square Ventures (USV), O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures … […]

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Source: Palm To Unveil Pixie Phone This Week  —  Palm will unveil its second WebOS phone this week, internally named the “Pixie,” we’ve heard from a source close to the company.  The debut will occur as part of Fashion Week in New York.  —  As we wrote back in April, the […]

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Pre-Mature Elaboration: Sprint Cancels Palm Pre Offer  —  If there’s a Guinness World Record for shortest-lived promotional offer by a wireless carrier, Sprint’s (S) surely a front-runner for it.  —  Just six or so hours after offering a $100 service credit to new subscribers who purchase a Palm …

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Sprint Cancels Palm Pre $100 Offer  —  If there’s a Guinness World Record for shortest-lived promotional offer by a wireless carrier, Sprint’s (S) surely a front-runner for it.  —  Just six or so hours after offering a $100 service credit to new subscribers who purchase a Palm (PALM) …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Let It Be: Beatles Still Not Coming to iTunes Tomorrow  —  iPods with cameras?  Maybe. iTunes with new features?  For sure. iTunes with Beatles?  Nope.  —  I’m sure that Apple (AAPL) will indeed sell the Fab Four’s music via its digital music store one day.  But it’s not happening at Apple’s […]

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Obama Praises Twitter, Google & Facebook — But Not Microsoft’s Xbox  —  Does today’s speech from President Barack Obama to school children across the United States need any more controversy?  Having listened to it, I personally can’t see many parents objecting.  But I could see one tech company not […]

Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
iPhone C64 Emulator Approved by Apple, Removed Again for Hiding Banned Feature  —  UPDATE: C64 Emulator has yet again been pulled from the App Store for sneaking in an easter egg that allows the execution of code in a BASIC interpreter.  See the end of the post for details.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple’s Sept. 9 music event: What’s Steve Jobs got up his sleeve?  —  New iPods?  Check.  With cameras?  Very likely. iTunes 9?  Why not.  Steve Jobs on stage?  Who knows.  The Beatles on iTunes?  Don’t count on it — but don’t count it out, either.  —  Apple’s (AAPL) …

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Don’t expect Apple TV as cable set top box, Apple exec says  —  Though rumors have persisted for years that the Apple TV might transition from a media streaming solution into a cable box competitor, a new report said an Apple executive “killed that concept.”