Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPads now shipping within 24 hours, production issues over?  —  Since the iPad's initial launch on April 3rd and the 3G iPad's launch on April 30th, customer demand for the product was exceptional and even beat Apple's expectations.  Up until a couple weeks ago the shipping times …

TechCrunch:
Check (In) Yo' Self Before You Wreck Yo' Self: Why Foursquare Users Check In “Off The Grid”  —  This is a guest post by Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) who conducted a survey of 500 Foursquare users to better understand their check in behaviors and motivations.  His obsession with Foursquare …

Elias Bizannes:
Why the seed investment bubble is exactly that  —  Jed Christiansen wrote a thesis on the rise of Y-combinator and other seed-accelerators.  He also released the data behind his research, which gives an insight into the success of the seed-accelerators.  It's fascinating to look at these numbers …

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
The Look Ahead: Google Narrows Its Acquisition Focus  —  A weekly look at a story that is defining the news.  —  Google's shopping spree hit a new milestone this week.  By buying up visual search engine Like.com, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) made its 25th acquisition since CEO Eric Schmidt's declaration nearly …

Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
SMS Replier Not Only Automatically Replies to Texts, It Knows When You're Driving  —  Aha!  It looks like State Farm's app isn't the only app that helps keep you from texting while driving—there's SMS Replier too.  And this app will know when you're driving.

Judith Evans / Agence France Presse:
China's wired youth forget how to write  —  HONG KONG — Like every Chinese child, Li Hanwei spent her schooldays memorising tens of thousands of the intricate characters that make up the Chinese writing system.  —  Yet aged just 21 and now a university student in Hong Kong …

Associated Press:
3Par calls HP $30 bid ‘superior’; Dell mulls reply  —  FREMONT, Calif. - Data storage company 3Par Inc. says its board has determined that Hewlett-Packard Co.'s $2 billion, $30-per-share takeover bid is superior to a rival offer from Dell Inc., but Dell said Saturday it was mulling over a higher bid.

Robert McMillan / Network World:
Research experiment disrupts Internet, for some  —  An experiment run by RIPE NCC in collaboration with Duke University briefly disrupts about 1 percent of Internet traffic  —  An experiment run by Duke University and a European group responsible for managing Internet resources went wrong Friday …

Zee / The Next Web:
Reddit's Co-Founder Responds to Cheezburger Founder's Acquisition Approach  —  You might have missed yesterday's news of Cheezburger Network founder Ben Huh's public offer to buy Reddit from Conde Nast.  In a blog post posted just a few moments ago, Alexis Ohanian - in a roundabout way - says it's at least worth talking over.

Luisa Beltran / PE Hub Blog:
Big Winners in 3Par Bidding War Are 3 VCs and Quattrone  —  3Par must feel like the wall flower who gets crowned prom queen and gets to pick her king.  Who knew a data storage company could be so wanted?  —  The bidding war for 3Par got even crazier today with HP sweetening its offer to $30 a share.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple App Store: 250,000 and counting  —  A nice round number, just in time for Steve Jobs to trot out at next week's special event  —  Click to enlarge.  Source: 148Apps.biz  —  According to 148Apps.biz, Apple's (AAPL) U.S. App Store passed the quarter million milestone on Friday, two years and 49 days after it opened.

StockTwits Blog:
Introducing our Partnership with SecondMarket and Private Company Streams  —  Through a partnership with SecondMarket, the marketplace for illiquid assets, we are excited to deliver to our community at StockTwits the capability to comment on an entire network of private companies.

Gmail Blog:
Easier event scheduling in Google Calendar  —  In the next day or so, you'll start to see some changes to the event page in Google Calendar which should make scheduling events easier.  We've made the style more consistent with other Google apps, put information that's most commonly used …

Sara Jerome / Hillicon Valley:
Silicon Valley needs a D.C. lobby, Hoffman says  —  Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley could benefit from a stronger lobbying presence in Washington D.C., because their concerns are often ignored in favor of older interests, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman said this week.

Boy Genius Report:
Gorgeous, mysterious, EVO-ish HTC device headed for Verizon  —  Remember that Verizon Wireless roadmap we leaked?  Well, it's all coming together pretty nicely.  We have just got our hands on images of one of the upcoming HTC devices we wrote about.  Our source describes the phone …

Wolfgang Gruener / ConceivablyTech:
Google Confirms Chrome 7 GPU Acceleration  —  With the release of the first versions of Chrome 7, we noticed a subtle speed increase in graphics-heavy websites and suggested that Google is improving Chrome's overall graphics performance.  Our readers later found that GPU acceleration can already be manually activated in Chrome.

AppleInsider:
Apple's shrunken 6th-gen iPod nano to retain 30-pin dock connector  —  Apple is poised to introduce a radically redesigned iPod nano next week that will retain its trademark I/O connector despite its drastically reduced form factor, AppleInsider has learned.

Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:
“Photo Memories” Coming to Facebook Places?  —  While checking into a Facebook Places location recently, one Mashable reader noticed a new tab: Photo Memories.  —  We've been unable to duplicate the same tab ourselves, which means Facebook may be testing this feature with a small number …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Zuckerberg: Facebook Photos Used 5 Or 6 Times More Than Competitors — Combined  —  Yesterday, Facebook held a developer's garage event at their headquarters in Palo Alto.  To kick things off, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage to talk a bit about the history of Facebook.

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Patent Suit Day Continues: Microsoft Takes Fight With i4i Over XML To The Supreme Court  —  While not the biggest Microsoft-related lawsuit news of the day, Microsoft just announced that it wants to take its patent infringement case against Canadian technology firm i4i to the highest level, seeking review by the US Supreme Court.