Technology

SAN FRANCISCO – Sally Harrison is developmentally disabled, but on Facebook the 35-year-old woman is just like anyone else.

SEOUL – South Korean telecom operator KT Corp said on Sunday it planned to begin selling Apple's iPhone 4 this week amid growing competition to expand in the potentially lucrative smartphone market.

SINGAPORE—It's tough being an opposition party member in Singapore, but history undergraduate Bernard Chen of the Workers' Party is unfazed as he meets voters, organizes events, and attends internal meetings.

Google has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle a privacy lawsuit over a Buzz social networking tool added to free email service Gmail in February, according to court documents.

WASHINGTON—NASA has landed on the iPad.

SAN FRANCISCO—Google released an improved version of Chrome on Thursday as the Internet titan's Web browser turned two years old.

Google will power Internet search across AOL properties and AOL video will appear on YouTube under an agreement reached on Thursday between the Web companies.

WASHINGTON—Hot microblogging service Twitter launched an application for the Apple iPad on Thursday to rave reviews from technology blogs.

AFP - Five puppies that were thrown into a river by their owner, sparking worldwide outrage after a video of the deed appeared online, have been rescued and put up for adoption, a Croat daily said Monday.

Reuters - Mocking officials online, exposing high-level corruption and discussing political tension could land journalists in many autocratic Middle East states in jail.

PC World - The European Commission is considering opening a second enquiry to investigate if China is illegally subsidizing tech companies that produce wireless modems.

PC World - Only two days left until Apple releases the first major upgrade to the iOS 4 mobile operating system on Wednesday, September 8. Apple lists a number of enhancements and features that will be added with iOS 4.1, but the things that make iOS 4.1 a critical update are buried in the Apple fine print.

Macworld.com - Mac users of personal finance software tend to fall into two categories—those who use Quicken, and those who hate Quicken with the red-hot passion of a thousand suns. No finance management alternative has yet captured the mindshare of the Mac market, but LittleFin Software steps up to the plate with the release of Chronicle 3.4. (Note: this Mac application is no relation to the Chronicle for iPad journal app.)

Macworld.com - Quincy Jones is a legendary record producer and composer responsible for producing Michael Jackson’s Thriller album as well as the hit charity song “We Are the World,” so when he gets behind an audio product, it probably deserves some attention. The product in question this time around is a new line of headphones by Harman AKG, which the company is releasing under its new Quincy Jones Signature Line.

Reuters - Nokia, the world's biggest cellphone maker by volume, will introduce new smartphone models next week at its annual media and industry event, aiming to assure investors the company is on track to recovery.

Mashable - Ad Age has obtained an internal Google document that highlights some of the biggest AdWords buyers for the month of June 2010, offering insight into how big brands are using Google and how much they are spending.

Reuters - Wang Yong, a name little heard on the global business stage, has become boss of the world's biggest mobile telecom carrier, the most valuable coal producer and Asia's top oil refiner.

AP - Mozambican mobile phone users found Monday they could not send text messages, technology that has been used to call for protests in this impoverished country over increases in food, water and electricity prices.

Digital Trends - Internet giant Google has proposed paying some $8.5 million to settle a lawsuit over privacy violations that occurred when it launched its Buzz social networking service earlier this year. Some 30 percent of the proposed settlement money would go towards legal fees associated with the case, $2,500 each would go to the seven Gmail users who brought the suit, and the remainder would be split amongst organizations that promote online privacy and privacy education. Google admits no wrongdoing in the settlement, which still must be approved by a judge.

PC World - One year after leaving his position as head of Google's China operations, Kai-Fu Lee is funding a dozen startups with his new company Innovation Works to seize on opportunities with China's booming Internet market.