Unless you live under a bridge (and in that case, how are you reading this?), you may have heard a little something about the new iPhone and and 2. 0 firmware update released today (and leaked yesterday). I was impressed on my first pass through the App Store.

One of the biggest beefs most folks have with NetFlix as an alternative to traditional forms of livingroom-based entertainment is that their on-demand selection is somewhat limited in nature (actually, recent Mashable commenter “Cody” remarked that “the online/stream selection was just plain miserable…”).

My favorite app concept from the Facebook F8 Developers' Conference was Connected Weddings. Based on the fact that planning a wedding is a social affair (duh), it lets you connect with two different groups: the people coming to your event, and other people who are getting married.

A security research warns that the iPhone’s e-mail and browser apps can be used by phisers to users into visiting malicious sites, according to Computerworld. .

Nokia, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, and chipmaker Qualcomm announced Wednesday that they had entered into a new licensing agreement that settled all patent litigation between the two companies. Financial terms of the agreement were not released, but the companies said Nokia will pay royalties to Qualcomm.

Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo : Why We Still Need the iPhone App Black Market   —  A year ago, we said that no iPhone SDK meant no killer apps.   It came, and the apps are here in staggering numbers.

Young stars around a black hole? You might think this is impossible. But astronomers recently discovered very young stars around Milky Way’s center through their radio signals. You can not see the stars with telescopes because they are surrounded by huge amounts of gas and dust.

When someone asks you to help communicate an initiative, what do you do? Do you immediately find yourself coming up with cool ideas about how to gain attention and generate coverage? It feels good to do that, right? It certainly impresses non-communicators - “oh, we could do a media event for the launch, podcast this and that, and approach this reporter I know at the Globe & Mail.

We’re still in the process of recovering from the missing follower/following problem that occurred earlier today. Over the next several hours, you may see inaccurate counts or timeline inconsistencies as the correct data is propagated to all parts of the system.

Intel's first system-on-a-chip designed around the x86 instruction set is ready for the world. The company is planning to announce the catchily-titled EP80579 chips Thursday for its customers building storage and networking equipment. The chips themselves aren't the most exciting products Intel has ever released, but they are.

When we started producing GeekBrief. TV , we were living above a store we opened for Extra Space Storage in Highland Park, IL. At the same time we opened our store, Jim Lederer and Chef Dave Teichman opened Bluegrass , a neighborhood restaurant with beyond words amazing food.

Yes. But you've already made it twice as long as it needed to be. .

These Neoneco Swing Speakers from Korea hook onto your iPod nano, classic or touch and provides sound where there was none before. It's not made for any sort of high fidelity sound reproduction, but at a battery life of 10 hours (it's got a separate power source) it provides bare-minimum sound on the go.

Is four processing cores inside a laptop overkill? Probably not for gamers. Intel is expected to meet this insatiable need for speed when it rolls out it first mobile quad-core processor. An Intel executive is on the record stating an August roll-out.

Back in April, we had Keith Richman on Mashable Conversations to talk about the formation of the ROI council. Keith is the CEO of Break. com, and a genuinely knowlegable person to talk to when it comes to the broad topic of the business of online video.

Earlier today Google announced that Google Knol is now open to the public. Danny Sullivan has an awesome overview of how Google Knol works. I thought this would be a good time to compare three crowdsourced encyclopedias: Mahalo , Google Knol and Wikipedia.

Trazzler was born when we evolved Biz's compelling "virtual teleportation" concept into a Facebook application. Experimenting with the Facebook platform inspired rapid innovation the idea turned from app to full-fledged startup. Recently, Trazzler. com has consumed all of our attention.

Image via Wikipedia What was your first car? 1991 Toyota Tercel Any significant memories w/that. . . .

In April of 2000, Saturday Night Live aired one of the few truly classic sketches outside of the 1970s and 80s. The sketch is a spoof of a VH1 “Behind the Music” episode featuring Blue Öyster Cult and the recording of (Don’t Fear) The Reaper ( watch it here ).

We’re extra lucky this week to have none other than Mr. Chris Pirillo on RBWL! at 10pm ET / 7pm PT. Be sure to dial in, log in, whatever you have to do to catch this one.