Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
D-Day For Facebook App Developers  —  Facebook is holding a Developer Garage today at its offices in Palo Alto, and a number of new app policies will be formally announced.  Some of the changes, though, are so dramatic that Facebook has briefed the bigger app developers in advance.

Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Google tells FCC it’s still blocking calls, but fewer of them  —  Google told the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday that it’s still blocking some high-cost phone calls, but its engineers have figured out a way to reduce the phone numbers affected to fewer than 100.

Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft And Yahoo Delay Signing Search Deal  —  Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) have delayed signing their search deal, Yahoo told the SEC in a filing.  —  In their original Juy 29 agreement, Yahoo and Microsoft said they would sign finish negotiating the search deal by October 27.

Murali Viswanathan / The Official Google Blog:
Making search more musical  —  Every day we get millions of search queries about music.  You want to know more about your favorite artists, find that new album or iconic song or figure out the name of that tune stuck in your head.  In fact, according to Insights […]

Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Strategy of New Chief at Motorola Appears Poised to Pay Off  —  LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. —Sanjay Jha’s honeymoon as co-chief executive at Motorola lasted just a few minutes into his first meeting with employees in 2008.  —  “Why should we trust you?” one employee blurted.  The frustration was understandable.

Dan Rayburn / The Business Of Online Video:
Confirmed: Netflix Streaming Coming To The Wii Very Shortly  —  Last week I received some images that showed Netflix streaming on a Wii console.  I didn’t run with the story at the time as I didn’t know if the images were legit and it’s taken me until […]

Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Finding the Smartphone Inside Motorola  —  LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. — Sanjay Jha’s honeymoon as co-chief executive at Motorola lasted just a few minutes into his first meeting with employees back in 2008.  —  “Why should we trust you?” one employee blurted.  The frustration was understandable.

Ethan Beard / Facebook Developers:
Facebook Platform: A Roadmap for the Future  —  At Facebook, we focus on providing our developer community with simple building blocks to speed innovation and create an environment where small teams quickly push new products that can rapidly disrupt industries.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple’s 2009 ad budget: Half a billion  —  Those Get-a-Mac spots aren’t cheap, but they deliver a lot of bang for the buck  —  Apple (AAPL) shells out a ton of money for advertising.  In fiscal 2009 it spent $501 million, according to the 10-K form filed Tuesday.  That’s up […]

BBC:
Net pirates to be ‘disconnected’  —  People who persistently download illegal content will be cut off from the net, Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has announced.  —  Speaking at a government-sponsored forum to debate copyright issues he said the UK would introduce a similar policy to France.