If you visit a video on YouTube right now, you will notice a new icon at the bottom of the videos. If you click the soccer ball icon, then you will notice that the notorious vuvuzela horn noise from the FIFA World Cup will be added to the video. The noise is so annoying and TV networks are seeking ways to filter it out. FIFA decided not to ban the horns because of tradition. [TechCrunch]

Lines at the Apple stores across the world are building up by fanboys who want to get their hands on the new iPhone 4. There has been long lines reported in the UK, France, Germany, Japan, California, London, New York, Charlotte, Knoxville, etc. Apple opened their stores at 7AM today. [ComputerWorld]

GetJar is a mobile app store that has seen over one billion applications downloaded so far across 70,000 apps. GetJar has raised $11 million in funding recently. GetJar CEO Ilja Laurs likes to call his company the “Wal-Mart for mobile apps.” GetJar has deals in place with Sprint and Rogers. GetJar is profitable and makes money from “premium visibility” according to paidContent. The funding was provided by Accel Partners. [paidContent]

Valve Software announced today that they are now selling Counter-Strike: Source for the Mac OS X at a price of $6.80 until this Friday. Counter-Strike: Source is available under the Steam Play program. [Valve via MacRumors]

The Twitter application for Facebook will soon scan your friends and see which of them are on Twitter. Then Twitter will let you automatically find them. The application currently does not work on Facebook due to technical glitches, but the social network company is working with the micro-blogging service to fix it.

Today a judge threw out a $1 billion copyright lawsuit filed by Viacom against YouTube. This lawsuit has been dragging out ever since Google bought YouTube. YouTube is now protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Essentially Viacom could not prove that YouTube failed to remove video clips after being notified about copyright infringement.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stopped by the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, California earlier today. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said this was “one of the most special days in the history of Twitter.”

Verizon Wireless will start selling the DROID X on July 15th for $199. Unfortunately the phone lacks Adobe Flash as of right now, but it will arrive on the phone towards the end of the summer. The phone is $199 after a $100 mail in rebate and requires a 2 year contract. Below are some of the specs: