Today the U.S. soccer team beat Algeria 1-0, advancing them to the next round at FIFA. The servers at Twitter were flooded by the response.  Twitter has been unstable for the last few weeks, but the engineering team there said that it would be “a rocky few weeks” as the company is increasing their infrastructure. [CNET]

Virgin Mobile will introduce a Novatel MiFi router next week according to Gearlog.  The Virgin Mobile MiFi turns a 3G signal into a WiFi hotspot for up to five devices and it will be completely prepaid.  The device will cost $149 and then run for about $10 (100MB) or $60 (5GB).  Virgin has the full data chart on their website.  Personally I’m excited for this because I plan to take a huge road trip later this summer and don’t want to get locked into any contracts for MiFi. The Virgin Mobile MiFi will be available at Radio Shack, Best Buy, and online starting June 28th. [Gearlog]

iFixit has taken an iPhone 4 and disassembled it to find out what is inside.  There is 512MB RAM inside, a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor (same as the Samsung Wave S8500), chemically strengthened Gorilla Glass front panel, and a 1420mAh Li-Polymer battery.  The battery is easy to remove and replace, but the LCD panel is tightly glued to the glass and digitizer.  The AGD1 3-axis gyroscope is believed to be made by ST Micro.  Broadcom provides the BCM4750IUB8 single-chip GPS receiver and the BCM4329FKUBG receiver to give the iPhone 4 802.11n WiFi, FM radio, and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. [iFixIt]

A new group has been formed by Joshua Schachter (Delicious founder), Roy Rodenstein (Going founder/AOL exec), Gabriel Weinberg (Duck Duck Go), Jim Young (HotorNot), and Jeff Miller (Punchform) called Hacker Angels.  The goal of Hacker Angels is to provide startups with advice and even some coding tips.  It is not exactly an investment company, but more of an informal association.  Hacker Angels may provide funding or serve as board members on an individual basis. [ReadWriteWeb]

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has improved Google Maps for Android version 4.3.  Google Maps for Android now have train schedules and the ability to find friends on Google Latitude.
Reviews are built into Google Maps now too.  So if you search for a restaurant, you can tap on it and read what people are saying about the food, service, selection, and atmosphere about that particular place. [Google Mobile Blog]

The Android Market has about 48,000 applications as of right now, of which 20% of that number has access to sensitive and/or private information according to a report released this past week by SMobile Systems.

Above is a chart generated by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster about what an application costs Apple to sell.  Apple currently claims that the App Store is at or near broke even.
Munster used two pieces of information to make these assumptions.  In Steve Jobs’ keynote two weeks ago, he said that 5 billion apps have been downloaded and $1 billion has been paid out to developers.  Below are some of Munster’s key points regarding those figures.

Mozilla has announced the Firefox 3.6.4 browser and it has an increased amount of security and stability.  The new Firefox browser has crash protection for Windows and Linux users as it isolates third party plugins when they crash.