Examiner:
Apple to release iPod Touch with camera this Spring?  —  We have heard from an inside source who claims the camera version of the iPod Touch 3G will be released this Spring.  The source confirms to us that the iPod Touch 3G with camera had actually been planned for release this past September, but […]

Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
Twitter.com traffic down?  Seesmic Web is +30%/month  —  There are many reports that the traffic from Twitter.com would be going down.  We see the opposite on the app side, at least for Seesmic.  Seesmic Web is growing very strong as you can see the number of Tweets […]

Loic Le Meur Blog:
Twitter.com traffic down?  Seesmic.com is +30%/month  —  There are many reports that the traffic from Twitter.com would be going down.  We see the opposite on the app side, at least for Seesmic.  Seesmic Web is growing very strong as you can see the number of Tweets posted growing.

Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Video Demonstrates Wired’s Concept iTablet App  —  Who takes Apple’s rumored touchscreen tablet seriously?  Wired’s parent company Condé Nast.  Earlier this week, the corporation revealed its plans to work with Adobe to repurpose magazine content for upcoming digital devices, including the Apple tablet (if it is indeed real).

Matthew Newman / Bloomberg:
Oracle $7.4 Billion Sun Takeover May Be Blocked by EU on Competition Issue  —  Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — Oracle Corp.’s planned $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. may be blocked by European Union regulators because of concerns Oracle might be able to eliminate Sun’s MySQL database product …

Laura Northrup / Consumerist:
Smoking Near Apple Computers Creates Biohazard, Voids Warranty  —  Unless you’ve just arrived in 2009 on a time machine, you know that smoking isn’t good for you.  Did you know, that smoking isn’t good for your computer, either?  It’s true, at least according to Apple.

Nicholas Kristof / Nicholas D. Kristof:
Boycott Microsoft Bing  —  Critics have accused President Obama of kowtowing to Chinese leaders, by failing to meet dissidents, toning down his criticisms and delaying a meeting with the Dalai Lama.  On balance, I think that criticism is premature: Confrontation doesn’t help with China and can hurt …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Gmail Creator Thinks Email Will Last Forever.  And Hasn’t Tried Google Wave.  —  “Email is not going to disappear.  Possibly ever.  Until the robots kill us all.”  - Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, co-founder of FriendFeed, currently doing vague infrastructure things at Facebook.