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• AT&T starts selling iPhone 4, exhausts supplies

  As promised, AT&T today started selling the iPhone 4 to walk-in customers, but many stores quickly ran dry.

• Astronauts sky high on out-of-this-world twittering

  The astronauts of Space Shuttle mission STS-131 are delighted by the response to their extra-terrestrial Twitter messages, they said Monday.

• SharePoint 2010: Four Big-Name Social Networking Rivals

  Microsoft became decidedly more social with SharePoint 2010, adding social networking tools like improved wiki and blog integration, tagging and microblogging into its SharePoint MySites feature.

• You Are Here: Scary New Location Privacy Risks

  Location-based services on a mobile phone are terrifically helpful when you need to find a nearby business or directions to the freeway.

• Twitter settles FTC privacy complaint

  Social-networking giant Twitter has agreed to settle a complaint from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleging that the company deceived users and put their privacy at risk by failing to take appropriate security safeguards.

• Google Docs creates expectations CIOs can't meet, Red Hat CEO says

  As chief executive of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst spends much of his time traveling the world and talking to CIOs, and he constantly hears one thing: that they are "under siege" by user expectations.

• Firefox add-on encrypts Facebook and Twitter

  Firefox users worried about Internet eavesdropping are being offered a new way to encrypt their interaction with a range of popular websites, including Facebook and Twitter.

• Why don’t CFOs and Lawyers do social media?

  Lawyers and CFOs appear to be laggards when it comes to using social media for marketing and promoting their expertise.

• Twitter tests new ad revenue source with Toy Story 3

  Twitter on Thursday kicked off a test of a new revenue source.

• Twitter Warns Even More Downtime To Come

  Following two rough weeks of buggy service, Twitter warned its users that more downtime should be expected over the next two weeks. The outages affecting Twitter have been the worst since last October, said Sean Garett, the company's head of communications.

• Twitter's service disruptions and outages persist

  Twitter's persistent and disruptive service outages entered a second week, as the company scrambles to bring its site availability back to acceptable levels.

• Twitter buys analytics company

  Twitter, which recently announced its Promoted Tweets advertising program, has acquired the maker of a cloud-hosted Web analytics application, Twitter said Thursday.

• BP Tries to Distance Itself From Twitter Parody

  More than 150,000 people get a few chuckles every day from <a href="http://twitter.com/bpglobalpr">@BPGlobalPR</a> on Twitter, a satirical take on BP and the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. But BP, the company behind what has been called <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37386954/ns/meet_the_press/page/2/">the biggest ecological disaster in U.S. history</a>, isn't laughing.

• Twitterverse explodes with 2B tweets in May

  Are you tweeting more these days? Seems somebody is.

• Twitter, Google Calendar struggling with availability

  Twitter is dealing with overcapacity, while Google Calendar users are having trouble logging into their accounts