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AP - Delta Air Lines Inc. said Thursday it's launched a new "Ticket Window" on Facebook that will allow passengers to book directly on the social media site.

Reuters - Research In Motion's encrypted BlackBerry email and instant messaging services will be shut down if the Canadian maker does not address Indian national security concerns by August 31, the government said on Thursday.

Secret agents have long been at the cutting edge of technological developments.But in recent years technological growth has outpaced spy innovation, and so their latest gadgets haven’t been coming from a Q figure, but instead from the outside world.

PC World - The mythical Verizon iPhone could become reality this January, as Apple is reportedly finishing the prototype for a CDMA smartphone. The news comes from Daring Fireball's ever-scoopful John Gruber, who says that N92 is the codename for an engineering verification test unit of a Verizon-bound iPhone 4.

AP - A folk hero in digital times, JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater has been thoroughly embraced by the Web.

Mashable - Twitter has just launched the “Tweet Button,” an official option for web publishers to count retweets and let their readers easily share content.

PC World - Scooping speculators, Engadget claims it can exclusively reveal Sony Ericsson's plans to introduce a brand new gaming handheld. What's more, the handheld will run "Gingerbread," the codename for Android 3.0, Google's mobile Linux/GNU platform rumored to be deploying already this October.

AP - The state-run Xinhua News Agency said Thursday it will launch its own search venture, giving Google a new, well-financed rival following the closure of its China-based Web search engine.

PC World - As worldwide smartphone sales grew by 50 percent during the second quarter, Android was the big winner, as it became the third largest operating system and sales passed 10 million units for the first time, according Gartner.

A ride to the stratosphere and back has now become a rite of passage for smartphones and digital cameras. Space enthusiasts are attaching devices to weather balloons or rockets, then sending them high into the stratosphere and beyond.

Berta Benz, wife of inventor Karl Benz, takes her husband's car on the first documented road trip in an automobile. It's truly like no other car in the world.

Sylvester Stallone's new flick is bursting with old-school action heroes -- but why? Wired uses a proprietary equation to calculate which tough-guy actors, from Lundgren to Willis, still matter in Hollywood.

PC World - Shanda Literature, one of China's largest online publishers, released a new e-reader called Bambook this week, making it available to a select number of customers.

Reuters - Japan's trade ministry said on Thursday that Apple Inc's Japan unit has satisfied its demands for improved safety notifications about overheating iPod nano portable music players.

AP - Digital video recording pioneer TiVo Inc. and cable television provider Cox Communications Inc. are making it easier for Cox subscribers who use TiVo's DVR boxes to watch Cox's on-demand video content.

Reuters - IBM Corp and Oracle Corp have agreed to end a cross-country legal battle over a 31-year IBM veteran that Oracle chief Larry Ellison hired away from his arch-rival in June.

The Perseids are coming! The yearly meteor shower peaks Thursday night. Here's how to make the most of it.

Ben Patterson - It’s been more than a year since Samsung trotted out its last touchscreen competitor to the iPod Touch, but word has it that a new Samsung Yepp — powered by the Android OS, with hardware based on the new Galaxy S line of Android smartphones — might be waiting in the wings. Also: Archos's 3.2-inch Android "tablet" revealed.

PC World - Facebook is scrambling to fix a bug in its website that could be misused by spammers to harvest user names and photographs.

A Ukrainian known as BadB, suspected of being one of the top sellers of stolen bank-card data, is busted.