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href="http://mashable.com/2010/05/11/firefox-4-plans-faster-friendlier-more-secure/">Firefox 4 is coming soon, and it’ll carry with it a lot of design and UI changes. One of the biggest ones is that the default setting will be to place tabs on top, a design Google Chrome…

In response to a patent lawsuit filed by Microsoft last May, Salesforce is countersuing with its own patent infringement claims. But a mere countersuit isn’t enough for CEO Marc Benioff. He is also bringing a big-gun lawyer to the knife fight, Microsoft’s nemesis from the antitrust trial of the 1990s, David Boies.

During Salesforce’s last earnings call, Benioff obliquely referred to Microsoft as an “unnamed patent troll” and “alley thugs.”

In terms of the hardware, one of the only completely new features on the iPhone 4 is the gyroscope. It’s so new, in fact, that third-party developers haven’t had a chance to play around with it yet because they didn’t have access to the iPhone 4 hardware until today (or at least two days ago). And because they didn’t have the hardware, that means there are a sad lack of apps that use the feature so far. But actually, there is one out there. Ngmoco’s Eliminate: GunRange. And it’s awesome.

The game itself is simple. You pick a gun (preferably a high-powered semi-automatic one) and head to the shooting range. But the game shines thanks to the gyroscope — which is required for you to play. Rather than dragging your finger around the screen to tell your gun where to aim, you simply tilt the iPhone itself. Sure, you could sort of do this previously with the compass built in to the iPhone 3GS — but trust me, this is much, much better.

The FTC settled a lengthy investigation into Twitter’s lax security practices and protection of user accounts after two high-profile hacking incidents in 2009. The first one, which occurred in January, 2009, compromised 35 high-profile accounts, including those of President Barack Obama, Bill O’Reilly, Britney Spears, the Huffington Post, and Facebook. According to the FTC:

One tweet was sent from the account of then-President-elect Barack Obama, offering his more than 150,000 followers a chance to win $500 in free gasoline.

The other attack occurred in April, 2009, and involved a hacker gaining access to a Twitter employee’s email account which stored the employee’s administrative password. The hacker in question was the Frenchman who goes by the handle Hacker Croll. (Later, this was the same hacker who sent us c<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/twitters-internal-strategy-laid-bar

[Copenhagen] Danish VoIP technology company Vopium has received a $16.5 million capital injection, expanding its group of owners with telecom investor Raghuvinder Kataria, one of the early backers of what is now Bharti Airtel (one of the world’s largest telecommunication service providers).

With the investment, Kataria now owns the majority of shares in Vopium, which will use the funding to expand internationally in an effort to challenge VoIP juggernaut Skype.

We know that the href="http://mashable.com/2010/06/24/iphone-4-lines-video/">lines in front of Apple stores were href="http://mashable.com/2010/06/25/iphone-4-bigger-than-elvis/">enormous yesterday. But how many iPhone 4 devices has Apple sold, exactly?

While no one knows the exact number at this point, Oppenheimer’s Yair Reiner decided to…

While we’ve heard in the past that href="http://mashable.com/2010/04/02/twitter-the-killer-box-office-predictor-2/">Twitter can be a killer box office predictor, the same might not be true for social media and television ratings.

Social media monitoring company href="http://www.viralheat.com/" target="_blank">Viralheat spent a month tracking social…