Samsung has unveiled its Galaxy Tab tablet device, and Kobo announced that it is supplying the e-reader technology for it. "After much speculation, the new Samsung GALAXY Tab has just been announced by Samsungs CEO in Berlin, and Kobo is THE eReading application powering the 'Readers Hub' on the new Android tablet," says Kobo. "This partnership is an industry first for Kobo and Samsung, offering the first eReading experience on an Android Tablet to readers worldwide.

The Associated Press has revealed some new guidelines for its reporters with regards to credit and attribution. The guidelines come in the form of a letter from AP Senior Managing Editor Mike Oreskes . The guidelines apply to AP reports in print, broadcast, and online news, and stress the importance of giving proper attribution to other publications that break stories. "We should provide attribution whether the other organization is a newspaper, website,

Twitter's link service, t.co, is designed to make shortened links easier to read and safer to follow. Initial tests have gone well, too. But an announcement that Twitter will start tracking every t.co link users click has caused a bit of a stir. Twitter sent an email to users last night that in part stated, "In the coming weeks, we will be expanding the roll-out of our link wrapping service t.co , which wraps links in Tweets with a new, simplified link. . . .

AOL said today it has signed a five-year search advertising deal with Google renewing its partnership with the search company that dates back to 2002. Under the terms of the deal Google will provide search services to AOLs content network and properties, in exchange for a revenue-sharing arrangement between the two companies which will be expanded to include mobile search and YouTube. Today is another important step in the turnaround of AOL, said Tim Armstrong,

PeopleBrowsr shared a rather interesting report with us this week, looking at privacy related tweets during the center of this year's Facebook "privacy storm." The firm studied the public's reaction to Facebook's open graph-related announcements that set off the majority of the Facebook privacy controversy back in April. Are you concerned for your privacy as a Facebook user? Let us know .

Twitter has launched its official iPad app . There's a bit more to this than the standard mobile Twitter app. "Twitter for iPad takes advantage of the iPad's fluid touch interface, letting you move lots of information around smoothly and quickly without needing to open and close windows or click buttons," says Twitter's Leland Rechis. When you tap a tweet in this app, it opens a pane, and depending on the content of that tweet, you can open videos, photos, articles, etc.

At Apple's music event yesterday, where the company launched a new version of iOS, a new version of iTunes with a new social network )Ping(, a new line of iPods, and a new version of Apple TV, Steve Jobs took a shot at Google involving numbers of smartphone activations. Last month, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that Android gets over 200,000 devices a day. "People throw out a lot of numbers about how many devices they're activating per day," Jobs is quoted as saying.

Gowalla has launched a new feature called "highlights" which it describes as "little rewards you can give to places that are important to your life". MG Siegler talks about the potential significance of such a feature. "Where this gets really interesting is when you bring the social graph into it," he writes. "So, for example, if I check-in near a spot where a friend of mine asked his wife to marry him, I'll get a message alerting me of that.

Justin.tv has a new Android app for broadcasting live video. This competes with services like UStream and Qik. Unfortunately, it doesn't let you simply watch Justin.tv content like the iPhone app does. Perhaps that will come later. This is the first Android app Justin.tv has offered. "We've been focused on mobile applications since the beginning of this year, starting with the launch of Justin.tv for iPhone," says Caleb at Justin.tv.

In between the announcements about iPods, Apple TV, and a music-oriented social network, Apple and Google's mobile rivalry heated up a little more today. Steve Jobs, while discussing the success of iOS, also tossed out what was likely a veiled insult at Eric Schmidt and Android. Remember how Schmidt said in early August that 200,000 Android devices were being activated every day?

Family reunions and quick getaways have become a Labor Day tradition for most people, but which apps work best for taking holiday trips? Gripd.com spent several months testing various apps on each platform to see which ones make Gripd.coms top five travel apps. If you have an iPhone, Blackberry or Android phone, heres a quick rundown of the best 5 travel apps: Weatherbug The simplicity of Apples Weather app, but with a few extras for your phone.

Salesforce.com has announced the arrival of Jigsaw for Salesforce CRM . This is a new crowd-sourced business data service for Salesforce CRM customers. A spokesperson for Salesforce tells WebProNews today's announcement is significant for the following reasons: - Breadth: With Jigsaw Inside, sales and marketing professionals will get real-time access to the world's largest socially generated database, including 22 million business contacts and 4 million company profiles.

There's a new kind of personalized, social search available that may trump any effort we've seen from Google to date in this corner of search. Greplin is a new site that searches through "all your online data in one place, really fast" - or at least your the online data you have in the services that it supports, which is likely far from all of your online data. Still, the concept behind the site is pretty noteworthy, and it will likely add more services as time goes on.

Apple announced that it will be streaming an event online today at Apple.com, at 10:00 AM Pacific/1:00 PM Eastern. "Apple will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apples industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards," the company says. The whole thing is so open, you have to use a Mac running Safari on Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard, an iPhone or iPod Touch running iOS 3.0 or higher or an iPad.

Facebook has launched a " Universities on Facebook " page to "help students and campus organizations discover how to take full advantage of Facebook's features to publicize events, distribute content, and foster community and school spirit." The company has also acquired an interesting search patent for ranking based on click frequency. With regards to the suit from the guy who claims to own a majority stake in Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg's lawyers are quoted as saying ,

Google has an interesting post up today on its official blog, outlining its efforts in growing display advertising. Within this outline are five what Google calls "key principles guiding our future product innovations in this area." In short, these principles are: making life more efficient, total revenue management, more insight and control, betting on openness, everything is going to be "display". To me,

Facebook has been granted a patent called "Ranking search results based on the frequency of clicks on the search results by members of a social network who are within a predetermined degree of separation". Here's the abstract: Search results, including sponsored links and algorithmic search results, are generated in response to a query,

Yahoo announced today that it has expanded its partnership with Dex One to allow listings on Yahoo Local. "This broadens the reach of Dex One's local advertiser network, providing their clients with greater exposure in local communities and more consumers with detailed information on local businesses," a spokesperson for Yahoo tells WebProNews. All businesses who advertise on Dex One's DexKnows site will be able to show up in Yahoo Local search results.

Almost all iPhone or iPod touch users have downloaded a free app, but 82 percent have actually made a music purchase from iTunes, according to a new survey from NPD. More than half )56%( of iTunes buyers purchase music exclusively, and majority of iTunes user search time is focused on looking for music. Sales growth in digital music has been slowing, and some of that decline might be related to the distraction from apps; however,

MySpace announced that it has appointed Tom Cox as its new Senior VP of Business Development, which means he'll be responsible for crafting and implementing the overall business strategy for MySpace. It also means he'll be identifying and negotiating partnerships for the company. "Cox brings to MySpace a proven track record for crafting innovative strategies, structuring productive relationships,