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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
iPhone Software 2.2 to add public transit & walking directions — The next version of Apple's iPhone software will not only introduce Street Views to the handset's Maps application, but also provide bus, train and walking directions, a series of new photos reveal. — Public Transit Directions
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Apple devs get new iPhone, Snow Leopard pre-releases — Apple developers this weekend are enthusiastically reporting that they've been provided with new test releases of the both the next iPhone software update and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. — iPhone Software 2.2 beta 2
Agence France Presse:
Terrorist ‘tweets’? US Army warns of Twitter dangers — WASHINGTON (AFP) - A draft US Army intelligence report has identified the popular micro-blogging service Twitter, Global Positioning System maps and voice-changing software as potential terrorist tools.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Is Twitter the next Netscape? — Fred Wilson in his famous answer compared Twitter to Google when it was a pre-revenue startup. A nice problem to have, for sure, but what if Twitter is more like Netscape than Google? — I was a web developer when Microsoft passed Netscape.
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple earnings, profits, and cash embarrass Microsoft — While Microsoft executives like to talk about Apple as an insignificant company with less than 5% of the worldwide market share of all PCs and servers sold, the Mac maker now has more cash than Microsoft and earns more than half of its profits and over three fourths its revenues.
Tom Evslin / Fractals of Change:
Act Now for Better Internet Access — There's a good chance that on November 4th the FCC'll do something really good to improve Internet and mobile phone access in the US: on that day the Commission is planning on voting on regulations to open huge swatches of idle but extremely valuable radio spectrum for open UNLICENSED use.
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
BlackBerry Storm Hands-On First Impressions! — A Pre-Release Look at RIM's First Touchscreen Smartphone — Finally! Here it is CrackBerry Nation, my first hands-on impressions of the BlackBerry Storm. Unlike my BlackBerry 9000, KickStart and Javelin pre-release reviews …
Dan Nosowitz / Gizmodo:
T-Mobile G1's POP3/IMAP Email Is Down — Over on the T-Mobile forums, there's a massive thread about the G1's totally borked POP3/IMAP email service. Looks like receiving, sending, and even just checking email results in a nasty connection error for just about everyone (one user estimates 95%).
Verne Kopytoff / San Francisco Chronicle:
Tarnished tech firms to adopt code of conduct — Criticized for their human rights records, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft plan to adopt voluntary guidelines that will govern their business practices in nations like China that restrict free speech, according to people who participated in drafting the rules.
Sinead Carew / MediaFile:
Sprint: Android not good enough yet — Sprint may be having a lot of problems marketing its own brand in the last few years, but according to Chief Executive Dan Hesse, Google's Android mobile operating system isn't perfect either. — He told the National Press Club in Washington …
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Tom Simonite / Short Sharp Science:
Packs of robots will hunt down uncooperative humans — The latest request from the Pentagon jars the senses. At least, it did mine. They are looking for contractors to provide a “Multi-Robot Pursuit System” that will let packs of robots “search for and detect a non-cooperative human”.
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Phone Arena:
Hot new phones coming to Verizon next month! — Verizon “Big Red” Wireless wants to be better than Santa and prepares a bunch of hot new phones for the Holidays, an internal document tells us. We've heard about them in earlier rumors, but here is the real deal:
