Aidan Malley / AppleInsider: Steve Jobs vows iPhone app crash fix for September — iPhone owners suddenly locked out of their third-party apps by a crash bug on startup will have a solution next month, Apple chief Steve Jobs has revealed. — An AppleInsider reader has received one of Steve [...]

New York Times: T-Mobile to Offer First Phone With Google Software — T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Google's Android software, according to people briefed on the company's plans. The phone will be made by HTC, one of the largest makers of mobile [...]

AppleInsider: Sources: Best Buy to sell Apple's iPhone 3G nationwide — Best Buy Co., Inc. is expected to announce as early as Wednesday plans to begin selling the iPhone 3G next month, making it the first independent U.S. reseller to offer the the coveted touchscreen handset outside of Apple and [...]

Business Wire: HP, Intel and Yahoo! Create Global Cloud Computing Research Test Bed — Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Lead the Way as Global Centers of Excellence — PALO ALTO, Calif. & SANTA CLARA …[...]

Vindu Goel / Bits: Game Over: Scrabulous Shut Down on Facebook — Facebook says the decision to block Scrabulous for U.S. and Canadian users was made by the Scrabulous developers, not Facebook. — Scrabulous has been shut down on Facebook. — If you try to pull up the popular Scrabble-like [...]

Michele Gershberg / Reuters: Investor Pickens drops Yahoo shares: report — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire oil investor T. Boone Pickens has sold his entire stake of Yahoo Inc (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News) shares in frustration over its failure to reach a deal with Microsoft Corp (NasdaqGS:MSFT - News), the San [...]

Vindu Goel / Bits: Facebook Shuts Down Scrabulous — Facebook has shut down Scrabulous, the Scrabble-like game on its site. — If you try to pull up the popular game, you get the following message: “Scrabulous is disabled for U.S. and Canadian users until further notice. If you would like [...]

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: WiMAX phobia? AT&T; tries to block Clearwire/Xohm merger — The proposed merger of Sprint's WiMAX Xohm subsidiary with Clearwire has the potential to be a hugely positive move. The new company pledges support for an open network, wholesale access, 6Mbps speeds, and good coverage.[...]

Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Breaking: Facebook Signs Search and Advertising Deal with Microsoft — CNBC is reporting that Microsoft and Facebook have signed a search and advertising deal. The partnership involves integrating Microsoft Live Search on Facebook, which will include the software giant's search advertising.[...]

Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: Qualcomm, Nokia Reach Deal to End Fight Over Patents — Qualcomm Inc. and Nokia Corp. said they agreed to end their legal battles, a deal that could bring big benefits to both companies and affect other players in the cellphone industry. — The companies [...]

Brad Burnham / Union Square Ventures: Meetup - The Original Web Meets World Company — Something is changing on the web. We have lost some of the giddy enthusiasm that has surrounded the web since 2004. It was then that Tim O'Reilly defined Web 2.0 as a platform that leveraged [...]

Brad Stone / New York Times: TiVo and Amazon Team Up — SAN FRANCISCO — TiVo, the Silicon Valley company that introduced millions to the joy of skipping television commercials, is trying to crack a decades-old media dream. It wants to turn the television remote control into a tool for [...]

Miguel Helft / New York Times: Settlement Puts Icahn on Yahoo Board — SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo, the Internet portal, has averted a bruising proxy contest with the billionaire investor, Carl C. Icahn, by agreeing to appoint him and two others to its board, which the company will expand from [...]

Kenneth Li / Reuters: AOL talks with Microsoft, Yahoo heat up: source — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc's (NYSE:TWX - News) discussions to merge or sell its AOL Internet division with Microsoft Corp (NasdaqGS:MSFT - News) or Yahoo Inc (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News) have taken on new urgency ahead [...]

eWeek: Intel Releases Centrino 2 Mobile Platform — The Intel Centrino 2 mobile platform for laptops is the chip makers fifth platform for notebooks. The Intel Centrino 2 mobile platform offers the companys latest 45-nanometer processors, new wireless technology and enhanced graphics.[...]

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Google/Viacom Agree To Preserve User Anonymity In Data Shakedown — The Google-Viacom showdown over the handover of YouTube user data appears to be over. The two sides agreed to changes in a previous ruling that would have required Google to hand over user id's, IP addresses [...]

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0: Piper Jaffray analyzes first weekend iPhone sales — UPDATE: Apple on Monday issued a press release announcing that it sold its 1 millionth iPhone 3G on Sunday. News from the company has apparently overtaken Gene Munster's analysis, below. — “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening [...]

New York Times: Yahoo Again Spurns a Microsoft Offer — Yahoo said Saturday night that it had rejected a renewed proposal by Microsoft, together with the activist investor Carl C. Icahn, to buy the Internet company's search business. — The proposal, made Friday evening by Mr. Icahn and Microsoft's chief [...]

Despite Housing Slide, Real Estate Sites Sell — TALK about an uh-oh moment. — It was late October, and Redfin, an online real estate brokerage firm based in Seattle, had received just three months earlier a $12 million investment led by the marquee venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Source: [...]