Google has released its second quarter 2010 earnings report. The centerpiece news is that revenue grew by 24% year-over-year to $6.82 billion — an impressive feat for the search giant

The New England Patriots are kicking off their 2010 season with a well-choreographed social media play designed to get fans engaged in a digital way.

Apple has begun its assault on the iPhone 4 reception issue today with the release of iOS 4.0.1, the first update to the device’s operating system.

Google is out with its latest earnings report, and, while not demonstrating the type of growth we were used to seeing several years ago, the company is still putting money in the bank at a healthy clip. For the search giant’s third quarter, they reported $5.7 billion revenue, up 7% from the same time last year. Moreover, the company generated $2.54 billion in free cash flow during the quarter, bringing the company’s total cash on hand to a staggering $22 billion

Today is the third annual Blog Action Day , a yearly event in which thousands of blogs around the web pledge to write about a single global issue in an effort to focus global attention. Two years ago, the inaugural Blog Action Day tackled the environment, last year blogs across the world wrote about poverty, and this year over 8,800 blogs from 148 countries are uniting today to write about an issue of global importance: climate change

We’ve been covering the story of a bank’s email screw-up and the highly controversial judge’s ruling that ordered Google to suspend the Gmail account of the innocent recipient of 1,300 bank customers’ personal information. Apparently Rocky Mountain Bank and Google have now reached an agreement to dismiss the case, reports CNet . However, the Gmail user in question will sadly still not have access restored to the account until the court approves the motion to toss out the case.

Update: The CNN iPhone App is now in the app store. Download it here [iTunes link]

We’ve been following the persistent rumors of an Apple Tablet for some time now and have written on why we think it’s most certainly coming at some point in the not-too-distant future. Today there’s a small nugget of fuel to add to the Tablet fire, with Apple rehiring former Newton developer Michael Tchao as VP of Product Marketing according to The New York Times . For those unfamiliar, the Apple Newton was the progenitor of the personal digital assistant (PDA) class of devices that outlived the Newton project itself, which was eventually canceled.

In a highly troubling ruling from U.S.

Earlier today, we reported that Americans now spend 17% of all of their online time on social networks . This makes a lot of sense and many readers commented that Facebook or Twitter are the first things they pull up on the web every single day