Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Storm 2 hitting Verizon Wireless around October 25th?  —  One of our ninjas just blessed us with a product inventory shot from Best Buy.  It shows that Best Buy locations will be getting BlackBerry Storm 2 dummy units starting October 25th.  Why is that important?

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Report: Comcast Buying NBC for $35 Billion.  Comcast: “Inaccurate”  —  Here’s the big media deal everyone has been waiting for.  Or at least, here’s the report: Sharon Waxman of TheWrap reports that cable giant Comcast (CMCSA) is buying all of NBC Universal from GE (GE) for $35 billion.

Joshua Siegel / Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing the new Local Search for Mobile  —  The mobile search team is always looking for new ways to make searching the world around you as easy and useful as searching the web.  Today we’re introducing a redesigned local search experience on your phone that integrates with Google Maps […]

Twitter Blog:
Soon to Launch: Lists  —  My name is Nick Kallen (@nk) and I’m the project lead on Lists, a new feature we’re testing with a small subset of users.  The idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts.  For example, you could create a list of the funniest Twitter accounts […]

Nick / Twitter Blog:
Soon to Launch: Lists  —  My name is Nick Kallen (@nk) and I’m the project lead on Lists, a new feature we’re testing with a small subset of users.  The idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts.  For example, you could create a list of the funniest […]

Jeff Chin / The Official Google Blog:
Translate your website with Google: Expand your audience globally  —  How long would it take to translate all the world’s web content into 50 languages?  Even if all of the translators in the world worked around the clock, with the current growth rate of content being created online […]

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
No, Apple’s iPhone Is Not 40% Of The Smartphone Market  —  Another month, another report that Apple’s iPhone market share is vastly larger than it really is.  —  As with last time, this new report is based on the same source of highly slanted statistics, mobile ad network AdMob.

theBookseller.com:
Kindle prepared for pre-Frankfurt UK launch  —  The Bookseller has heard from authoritative sources that Amazon.com will finally announce the arrival of its e-book device the Kindle in the UK next week.  The news confirms the story first reported by The Bookseller in July that publishers were expecting an October release of the device.

Alex Himel / Facebook Developers:
Facebook Connect, Easy as 1, 2, 3  —  Earlier today, we announced Translations for Facebook Connect, which simplifies and streamlines the process of translating a website into to any of the more than 65 different languages Facebook currently supports.  As we continue to provide ways …

Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook eases Connect sign-up to expand reach across the web  —  Facebook is simplifying how outside companies can integrate its Connect service today, in an effort to boost the company’s impact far beyond the borders of its social networking site.  —  It’s launching a Facebook Connect Wizard …