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The end result of Apple's decision to drop an NDA for released iPhone software? Better software.

Communication has not been Apple’s strong suit this past summer. But with just four paragraphs, developers are now looking at the company in a new light. Imagine what a full-time iPhone developer evangelist could accomplish.
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LiMo Foundation members are emerging, in a sense, as the anti-Android, although they would likely downplay that kind of talk. Google’s bid to unite the mobile phone industry around Linux is similar to LiMo’s vision, but there are a few differences.
LiMo has one advantage: an actual product out in the wild. Release Candidate [...]

“Today’s satellite-image technology means that…complete privacy does not exist,” Google said in its response to a complaint filed in April by a Pittsburgh couple that sued Google when photographs of their home appeared on the site.

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Indeed, Google appears adamant that its right to photograph streets trumps individuals’ right to privacy. Internet pioneer [...]

That’s the big question on Sun. I’m optimistic on its strategy, going forward, as I think its use of open source to drive add-on sales is smart and increasingly well-defined, and I also think, as I noted previously, that cloud computing is a good fit for Sun. But neither are likely to pay big dividends [...]

It has a process for separating the fiber, in the form of kernel husks, from the rest of the corn. Corn cobs, meanwhile, are typically left on the field and don’t add a lot of nutrients to the soil, said Jeff Broin, the CEO of Poet on a conference call with reporters.

Broin said the prospects [...]

Vringo, a company that offers an application that can take video, images, and slideshows and turn those into a personalized ringtone experience, announced that it has signed an agreement with Turkish mobile carrier Avea, to bring the company’s video ringtone service to Turkey. The deal puts in place the first carrier-led video ringtone subscription model [...]