Facebook now allows you to pre-approve photos before it shows up on your profile by accepting or declining it in your pending posts.  With Pending Posts, now you can approve or decline any photo or post you are tagged in before it is visible to anyone else on your Profile, not on Facebook.  This does not remove the tag itself.  As of right now, your friends can add your name to a photo without your approval. You would have to remove it later if you do not like the photo. This is how you set up Pending Posts:

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) had filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics about the design of their tablet. Apple accused Samsung of making a tablet that looks just like their iPad. Interestingly, Samsung filed an opposition brief to Apple’s motion for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. The image above is page 2 of an exhibit filed by Samsung with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Below is a statement that explains why the movie picture is valid prior art for an iPad-related design patent:

Facebook is planning to acquire a total of 20 companies in 2011. This is up from 11 in 2010. Facebook wants to acquire companies that will improve their website design and advance their mobile features.

The new Apple iPhone is expected to support multiple networks (CDMA and GSM). An unnamed popular Apple application developer gave away evidence that the new iPhone will be dual-mode.

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) may lose about $300 million on the HP TouchPad. As you know by now, Hewlett Packard had a fire sale of the tablet device as they are preparing to phase out the webOS. HP dropped the TouchPad tablet by about 75% or more.

According to Asian suppliers, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has started manufacturing a lower priced version of the iPhone 4 with an 8GB hard drive. The flash drive for the 8GB iPhone 4 is believed to be built by a Korean company. Apple currently sources their flash drives to Toshiba in Japan and Samsung Electronics in South Korea.

Mobile payment company Square has updated its iPhone and iPad applications today. The company also redesigned their website. The mobile applications are faster in speed and the number of screens for transactions have been reduced.

Last week Verizon Wireless has introduced a data plan for smartphones that runs for $20/month for 300MB of transfer in the mid-Atlantic region which includes Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, and North Carolina. This data tier plan was available between August 18th and September 30th.