Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Apple survey hints at iTunes streaming video service coming soon?  —  At this point we're fairly certain we'll see updated iPods at Apple's event on Wednesday, but we're still in the dark when it comes to that updated iOS-based Apple TV — we know it's in the works, but we don't know if it's coming this week.

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Roku Tries A Price Reset With Google TV, Apple Whatever In The Wings  —  Video service Roku cut prices by 23 to 30 percent across its WiFi set tops today, taking its most expensive device below $100 in the hopes of being perceived as the best value heading into the fall sales season.

David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Verizon-only Bing app shows proprietary side of Android  —  iPhone is closed.  Android is open.  —  That's the conventional wisdom about the dueling mobile operating systems.  Apple's iPhone operating system runs only on Apple's iPhone (plus the iPad and iPod), and every app must be approved …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Is A Hot Mess Right Now  —  I think I liked Google Voice better back when it was hard to get an invitation.  Back then it worked most of the time, and the infrequent outages were tolerable given how useful the service is overall.  But over the last week the service has become spotty at best, and unusable at times.

Agence France Presse:
HP to pay 55 million dollars in kickbacks case  —  WASHINGTON — Hewlett-Packard has agreed to pay 55 million dollars to settle claims the US computer giant defrauded the US government, the Justice Department announced Monday.  —  The settlement resolves allegations that HP paid kickbacks …

Sylvia Hui / Associated Press:
Internet may phase out printed Oxford Dictionary  —  LONDON - It weighs in at more than 130 pounds, but the authoritative guide to the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, may eventually slim down to nothing.  Oxford University Press, the publisher, said Sunday so many people prefer …

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Digits:
New Thriller Sells More E-Books Than Hardcovers  —  Weeks after Amazon.com said that it is now selling more electronic books than hardcovers, a leading book publisher said one of its prominent new titles is generating greater e-book unit sales than hardcover unit sales during its first week on sale.

Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Calcanis Pays Lip Service To Facebook's “Embrace” Of Entrepreneurs  —  Jason Calacanis appears convinced that entrepreneurs are at risk of “partnering” with Facebook, claiming that Facebook will steal any startup's technology.  This follow's Facebook's recent announcement that the company …

Jenna Wortham / Bits:
SideReel Tracks TV Shows Online, Wherever They Are  —  For those who take the plunge and cancel their cable or satellite subscriptions, there's certainly no shortage of television shows and movies to watch online.  The trick is finding it all.  —  There are a handful of Web sites that are vying …

Vivek Wadhwa / TechCrunch:
Silicon Valley's Dark Secret: It's All About Age  —  An interesting paradox in the technology world is that there is both a shortage and a surplus of engineers in the United States.  Talk to those working at any Silicon Valley company, and they will tell you how hard it is to find qualified talent.

Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Why aren't there more women in Tech?  My list of 30 great women  —  The Wall Street Journal today wrote about the lack of women in tech pointing out that 11% of venture backed companies have current or former women CEOs.  The writer also pointed out that Ycombinator has just 14 female founders out of 208 companies funded.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Cisco May Be Making A Run For Skype  —  Cisco has made an offer to acquire Skype before they complete their IPO process, says one of our more reliable sources.  We have not been able to confirm this rumor one way or another via other sources, which isn't surprising.

Paul Joseph Watson / Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com:
Senate To Sneak Through Internet Kill Switch Bill  —  Legislation likely to be attached to Defense Authorization bill in bid to pass cybersecurity before midterms  —  The Senate is attempting to sneak through the infamous Internet kill switch cybersecurity bill by attaching it to another piece …

Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
Judge Says TechCrunch Case vs. JooJoo Tablet Likely Has Merit  —  I Just read on Daring Fireball that the judge has denied TechCrunch's claim for preliminary injunction against their former tablet partners and makers of JooJoo, Fusion Garage.  —  Gruber claims that “Mike Arrington gets smacked around …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Full-On Assault On Cable Is Underway  —  Google, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon — when you hear these names, you usually think about how these tech giants all compete with one another.  But what if they all teamed up for one cause?  They'd be unstoppable, right?  We're about to find out.

Steve Cheney / TechCrunch:
Behind The Bidding War: The Real Reasons Why HP And Dell are So Desperate For 3Par  —  As I was writing this, news of the HP / Dell bidding war for 3PAR broke on the front page of Yahoo.  This made me laugh, as it typified just how crazy this story has become—few things outside of a bidding war …

Financial Times:
Intel eyes Infineon's wireless chip business  —  By Helen Thomas in New York and Joseph Menn in San Francisco  —  Intel, the US chipmaker, was on Sunday close to agreeing a deal to buy the wireless chip business of Germany's Infineon.  —  People familiar with the situation said a deal …

Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Gets Static on Net TV  —  The Justice Department is focusing in on how Comcast Corp.'s bid to purchase control of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal television and movie unit could affect the emerging Internet video market, people familiar with the matter say.

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
CrunchPad Denial of Preliminary Injunction  —  Mike Arrington gets smacked around in the first round of his lawsuit over the JooJoo/CrunchPad.  In short: TechCrunch didn't get much in writing regarding their “partnership” with Fusion Garage to develop the product, and, well, they should have.

Financial Times:
Google plans pay-per-view films  —  Google's YouTube video site is in negotiations with Hollywood's leading movie studios to launch a global pay-per-view video service by the end of 2010, putting it head-to-head with Apple in the race to dominate the digital distribution of film and television content.