Mr. Besilly / iPhone Savior:
Wall Street Journal Achieves Ad Placement Fail  —  In the September 10th edition of the Wall Street Journal, an ad promoting Halloween decor by Grandinroad.com showed two skeletons inserted next to an article entitled “Steve Jobs Returns To Center Stage At Apple”, featuring a shot of the gaunt Jobs … […]

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Third-Generation iPod Touch Teardown Reveals 802.11n-Capable Wi-Fi Chip, Empty Space for Camera  —  iFixit has managed to get its hands on a 32 GB third-generation iPod touch and is in the process of tearing apart the device to get a look at the internals.  While the new iPod touch is similar […]

Jon Fortt / Brainstorm Tech:
Is this Apple’s e-book trojan horse?  —  Tyrese Gibson’s Mayhem is a comic book - the first standalone print publication for sale in Apple’s iTunes LP format.  —  Tyrese Gibson’s Mayhem is the first digital book for sale on iTunes 9 - perhaps an early sign of Apple’s (AAPL) desire […]

David Berkowitz / AdAge:
Facebook Lite is a Black Hole for Brands  —  Many of the Tools Marketers Use Aren’t Present  —  Facebook Lite is a new streamlined version designed for people with slow internet connections.  There’s no chat and no applications.  It’s designed to give users quick access to their News Feed, inbox, and […]

Edwin Chan / Reuters:
Twitter expands rules to allow advertising  —  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Twitter, the fast-growing microblogging site now seeking ways to make money, expanded its terms for users on Thursday to allow advertisers to reach the Internet site’s more than 45 million monthly visitors.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Did Steve Jobs spin the NY Times?  —  Jobs.  Photo: Apple Inc.  —  When David Pogue, the New York Times’ chief technology columnist, sat down with Steve Jobs after his “It’s only rock and roll” keynote Wednesday, Pogue’s first question was the one, as he put it, the “blogosphere’s been […]

Bloomberg:
Microsoft-Yahoo Web Search Deal Faces In-Depth Justice Department Review  —  Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. have been asked by the U.S. Justice Department for more details on a proposed Internet-search partnership, expanding the agency’s review of the agreement.

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Nokia Acquires San Francisco “Microsocial Networking” Start-Up, Plum  —  Nokia is set to announce today that it has acquired Plum, the San Francisco “microsocial networking” start-up, for an undisclosed amount, sources said.  —  The small company was founded several years ago by Hans Peter Brøndmo as a social-bookmarking site.

Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
CE-Oh no he didn’t!  Part LXII: Steve Ballmer publicly ridicules Microsoft employee with iPhone, threatens to smash it  —  Not every man was born with common sense.  And anyone who’s ever seen Steve Ballmer take a stage knows that you don’t want to get in the way of the emotionally-charged big […]

Drewmccormack / MacResearch:
Grand Central Now Open to All  —  Apple today made the source code of Grand Central Dispatch available under an Apache open source license.  One of the new technologies for concurrency added to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Grand Central is Apple’s attempt to help developers deal with the rise of […]