[ The new iPhone 4S in the Apple Store. ]

While there has been a lot of conversations about what will and will not be launched at Apple's "Let's Talk iPhone Event" since there is no live stream for viewers to watch -- we have collected a series of photos live blogs around the web. 

UPDATE: Here is a link to the video of the "Let's Talk iPhone" event at Apple's Infinite Loop campus...

[ More photos after the jump ]

[ The Thumbtack price for two hours of Handyman service is only about $42/hr and with the lowest offering of $32.50/hour. So where is this 64% discount as advertised by Groupon? ] Thumbtack, a site that lets people book local services like handymen and tutors, says that Groupon and LivingSocial's valuation of their discounts is way overboard, and sometimes even more expensive than market value.

A Seattle Groupon for handyman services advertised two hours of services for just $79, a discount of more than 64%. However, if the more than 300 people who bought the deal had done some research they would have found that the price is just about average, and actually 20% more expensive than some handyman services in the area, according to Thumbtack.

Thumbtack says of the 57 handymen listed on its own site in Seattle, the average rate per hour is just $42 -- or $82 for two hours of work. According to Groupon, that amount of service should run you $220...

Zaarly, the service that lets you put a price on things you want and rely on others to fill your request, has launched a redesign to its site that includes a new homepage, an update to the browsing experience and a mobile version of the site.

One of the biggest changes to the user experience when visiting the Zaarly site is its immediate connection to the visitor's city, which allows them to browse the listings without logging in and check out a list of the most common Zaarly requests...

After several months of slowly updating the look of all Google sites, the new looks are now officially rolling out to all users, according to a post on the Google blog.

The new look across all of the Google suite of products is designed to have a cleaner look and feel, although it's strikingly less colorful [ see our story ].

Following feedback from users who opted-in to the new looks...

Google Offers daily deals are now available in 11 cities across the country with today's launch in Miami.  

Google Offers is now available in Austin, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Miami, New York (Downtown, Midtown, Uptown), Oakland/East Bay, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington D.C.  

The first Miami offer by the search company is for discounted movie tickets from Fandango, or any one of their partners, for $5 -- about a $13 value. Purchasers are limited to two tickets each and must redeem their offer between Oct. 3 and Dec. 22.

As of this morning more than 12K+ Fandango tickets...

Google is offering to be the middleman for customer service for online shoppers with its newly launched product Google Trusted Stores.

Google Trusted Stores will receive badges on their sites that to let shoppers see store-specific shipping and customer service metrics while on the site.

If a purchase goes wrong, the shopper can contact Google for help, who will then act on the shoppers behalf to resolve any customer issues with the merchant. However, Google still...

[ Shervin Pishevar (right) is pictured with Sean Penn (center) and Khaled Nawaby before joining the protesters in Tahrir Square. ] As a show of solidarity with the people of Egypt, Shervin Pishevar, managing director of Menlo Ventures, joined the protests against military rule in Tahrir Square.

"Entrepreneurship is a global movement that can knock down barriers to freedom everywhere," Shervin tweeted. "We need more entrepreneurial activists."

Shervin, who is a mentor for Oasis500, arrived in Cairo on Sept. 29 where more than 1M people were people were expected to gather to protest the military council's rule the next day.

"It’s easier to get funding for a gas station than to start the next Facebook or Twitter in the Mideast...

Bump, the app that lets you share your contacts and other data with your friends by tapping your devices together has released an update to it's Android app the company is calling the "visual refresh."

"In the last 10 months we’ve learned a lot about the ins and outs and how to build a great app on Android," Indy Khare, Bump Android and iOS developer, writes on the company blog. "One of the things we learned quickly was people rightfully bagged on Android apps not looking as good as their iOS counterparts."

But, Indy says that there are a number of misconceptions about why the apps have less visual flare when compared to their iOS counterparts and the main reason is laziness...

We just saw these amazing Nike Dunk Lows on Evan Steinberg, Google Android mobile community manager's stream this afternoon. [H/t Louis Gray ].

Think about the possibilities of these Google Dunks, featuring Google co-founder Sergey Brin's signature -- and photo on the tongue. If you wore these out on a Friday night how would your friends react?  

Google+ users had mixed responses on whether the shoes would actually...

BerliOS, one of the first European repositories for code sharing in Germany, has announced it is shutting down at the end of this year -- the company hosted projects for 10 years -- because of a lack of financing and the rise in popularity of alternative resources for developers.

"In a recent survey the community indicated some support in funds and manpower which we would like to thank you for. Unfortunately, the result is not enough to put the project on a sustainable financial basis," a letter posted on BerliOS to its users states.  

The letter also directs developers to export their projects from BerliOS to...

This infographic breakdown of more than 550 fashion fashion blogs worldwide monitored by DigitallyLUX is the first release from the company which officially launches its ad network next week.

"While managing our own advertising needs within the fashion and style blogosphere, and trying to scale for growth, we developed our own system to monitor and track the publishers in real-time," Elizabeth Wahler, Kiére Media and DigitallyLUX CEO says. " We found this to be 100% efficient and exactly what we were looking for to keep our eyes on the digital pulse of fashion, an excellent way to forecast relevant media buys for ourselves and clients, and plan marketing events."

DL's ad network will connect brands with influential fashion bloggers to create...

[ Jason Jacobs of RunKeeper (left) and Ben Rubin of ZEO (right) will be guests on TWiST #192 live at 1pm ] Founder of RunKeeper Jason Jacobs and ZEO co-founder Ben Rubin will join This Week in Startups #192 today for a special Health and Fitness Devices episode live at 1pm.

Jacobs founded FitnessKeeper, which maintains RunKeeper to track data from fitness related activities, in 2008. RunKeeper released an impressive infographic yesterday [ see our story ] that says that more than 6.4M people have used the program to track their physical activities for a total of 32B burned calories.

Rubin co-founded Zeo with a group of his college friends at Brown University with the goal of discovering new scientific ways to...

Since our first story on Lockerz, which rewards members with points (PTZ) for sharing and consuming Gen-Y-friendly content [ see story here ], we have uncovered a huge bait-and-switch.

By stopping its long-standing if massively gamed PTZ "redemption" days, where members could get free premium prizes like XBoxes and cash, Lockerz has made members' PTZ practically useless since they can now only get coupons for things available every day, such as a three-month Blockbuster membership trial and discounts on concert tickets.

Seattle-based Lockerz first suspended redemptions in May because of a "nasty new bot," then shut down redemptions altogether in July when it announced its latest funding round -- $45M expected to close in October. Investors include DAG Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Liberty Media Corporation and Live Nation Entertainment. The reason the company gave? To improve the user experience.  

The change has led to (by our count) hundreds of complaints on the Lockerz Facebook page. The biggest wave came in July of course...

Yelp is now available in nine countries in Europe after launching in Switzerland, its second European launch in just over a week.

Last week, Yelp launched in Italy focused on the cities of Rome and Milan [ see our story ]. Yelp's Swiss launch is centered on Zurich -- the city with the most clubs per capita in Europe -- but like its other European roll outs users, will be able to review restaurants and places from across the entire country...

[ See the full graphic below. ]After collecting data from its more than 6.4M users, Runkeeper has created this impressive infographic of user data that includes more than 156M logged miles and 20K races in more than 8.4K cities across the world. And since January 2010, the number of users has increased 467%.

More than 69% of Runkeeper users are based outside of the U.S. and the service that helps track and share your workouts has logged more than 350M different health data items. In a single day Runkeeper tracks more than...

[ Onswipe CEO Jason Baptiste runs through his pitch while TechStars cleverly displays this little known fact: Jason has three outfits that he rotates in a variety of colors. Courtesy of Bloomberg's TechStars ] Four companies decided to change their names on the third episode of Bloomberg's TechStars reality program -- and as usual the Onswipe team displayed arrogant awkwardness with every encounter [ Watch the episode here ].

Wiji, the smart billboard company with the terrible name, became Immersive; SocratED, the social learning game, changed its name to Veri; Urban Apt. the apartment finder aid, changed its name to Nest.io; and Homefield became Shelby.tv.

Urban Apt. came in looking to create the Yelp for...

Five new Posterous themes released today -- that makes a total of 46 -- gives Posterous users more ways to customize and share their content.

Posterous Spaces, a simple group-sharing platform that can be viewed on the web and on mobile devices, was launched on Sept. 12 and created so that people could share content with anyone on the web not just the techie elite on Google+ or those using Facebook's new group sharing functions [ see our story ].

The release of these new looks created by Cory Watilo, Posterous theme designer, are clearly designed with user application in mind...