Chris Ziegler / Engadget:

HTC Incredible out in the wild once more, Verizon color scheme alive and well  —  Android Forums is alight today with fresh HTC Incredible chatter — a phone every Android fan on Verizon is desperately waiting for — and we’ve managed to glean a few more pictures and possible specs out of the mess.

Michael Rose / TUAW:

How soon is now?  Pre-order timing for iPad confirmed, 5:30 am PT  —  We’ve had more than a few inbound requests today, via email and Twitter, asking a slightly obsessive but completely understandable question: When can I pre-order my freakin’ iPad?  —  True to form, the simple answer of …

Biz / Twitter Blog:

What’s Happening—and Where?  —  Every day, millions of tweets are created.  These little bursts of information are about anything and everything—they make Twitter a hub for discovering what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world.  A recent burst of interest in location sharing applications …

Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:

Verizon Wireless’ tech chief says unlimited Internet access ‘has to change,’ echoing AT&T [Corrected]  —  The two largest U.S. wireless carriers agree that the days of unlimited Internet cellphone access are numbered.  —  A week after AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said the telecom industry …

Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:

Reuters to Journalists: Don’t Break News on Twitter  —  Last night, Reuters released their social media policy, which includes instructing journalists to avoid exposing bias online and tells them specifically not to “scoop the wire” by breaking stories on Twitter.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

AOL Launches Lifestream As New Standalone Product.  This Is What Google Buzz Should Have Been  —  Aol launched Lifestream, a social aggregator and publisher, as part of their AIM platform at TechCrunch50 Last Fall.  Since then it has gained nearly 2 million users, say Aol.

Business Week:

Revenge of the Cable Guys  —  If you think online TV will be free forever, think again.  The cable companies have a plan to keep control—and stick you with the bill  —  Matt Mahurin  —  Once upon a time, not so long ago, a bunch of small companies in Silicon Valley thought the future of television was theirs.

Reinhardt Krause / IBD Click:

FCC Makes It Easy To Test Broadband Connections  —  Ever get that feeling your wireless data connection is s-l-o-w, or that your PC isn’t getting the high-speed Internet access advertised by your local cable or phone company?  The Federal Communications Commission, which plans to release …

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Why Digg Digs Cassandra  —  Digg, the San Francisco-based social media company, is dropping MySQL and instead betting its future on Cassandra, an open-source data store.  It’s just the latest sign of the growing popularity of the software, which was developed (and open sourced) by Facebook to search through its inbox.

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Evri Acquires Radar Networks In Semantic Search Consolidation  —  After shopping itself around to all the major search engines, Radar Networks finally found a buyer in another semantic search startup.  Today, Evri is announcing that it will be acquiring Radar Networks, along with its core technical team and its main product, Twine.