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• Verizon Wireless bets on Storm for holiday season (Reuters)

  Reuters - Verizon Wireless is betting on the new BlackBerry Storm for the all-important holiday season, hoping the highly anticipated smartphone can compete against the iPhone offered by rival wireless provider AT&T Inc.

  
  

• Review: New BlackBerrys cool but can't beat iPhone (AP)

  AP - With the recent releases of three new BlackBerrys across three different wireless providers, Research In Motion Ltd. has fired back at Apple Inc. in the Great Smart Phone Skirmish of 2008.

• Verizon finally has its answer to the iPhone (CNET)

  CNET - Verizon Wireless may have found its iPhone killer.

• `Fake Steve Jobs' stops blogging as the 'Real Dan' (AP)

  AP - It was bad enough when Dan Lyons stopped sharing his musings about the technology scene in a hilarious satire of what Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs would be like as a blogger.

• After iPhone, consumers seek handsome gadgets (Reuters)

  Reuters - Fed up with ugly routers and clunky hard drives, a growing number of consumers are looking for well-designed gadgets that complement decor instead of cluttering desktops and clashing with furniture.

  
  

• Japan's DoCoMo eyes 'Google phone' launch next year (AFP)

  AFP - Japan's top carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. aims to launch next year a cellphone developed with Internet search giant Google, an official said Wednesday, a move that could counter Apple's iconic iPhone.

  
  

• iPhone sex: Google application baffled by British accents (AFP)

  AFP - A new voice-recognition search tool for the iPhone has problems understanding British accents, leading to some bizarre answers to spoken queries, a newspaper report and users said Wednesday.

  
  

• Google's Voice-Search App for iPhone Needs Refining (NewsFactor)

  NewsFactor - The much-anticipated Google voice-search application for Apple's iPhone, which was trumpeted to be available for download on Friday, has arrived on Apple's App Store a bit later than expected. A reviewer says the application is okay, but needs some fine-tuning.

• Hands On: Google's Voice Search App for iPhone (PC Magazine)

  PC Magazine - Google's Mobile App with Voice Search was pushed several days to hammer out some last minute kinks, but most problems seemed to have been smoothed out when AppScout took it for a test drive Tuesday.

• Google's Voice-Search App Is Slow in Arriving (NewsFactor)

  NewsFactor - The hype machine was churning Friday when The New York Times and others noted that Google had offered its voice-recognition technology to Apple's iPhone before its own Android mobile platform.

• Where is Google voice-powered search? (CNET)

  CNET - Reporters were put into a frenzy this week when Google announced it was set to launch version two of its mobile search application for the iPhone which included the addition of voice-powered search, allowing you skip the keyboard altogether. But now the question is, where is it?

• Google Offers Search By Voice, and iPhone Gets It First (NewsFactor)

  NewsFactor - Google is pushing its voice-recognition technology to Apple's iPhone first, before devices running its own Android mobile platform.

• Google giving voice to iPhone Internet search (AFP)

  AFP - Google is reportedly weighing into the Internet voice search arena with a free application that lets iPhone users surf online by speaking queries.

  
  

• Citrix developing XenApps and XenDesktop for the iPhone (InfoWorld)

  InfoWorld - "We expect to have it sooner rather than later," said Chris Fleck, vice president of Solutions Development at Citrix.

• Businesses warming up to the iPhone (CNET)

  CNET - Apple has captivated the general public with the iPhone, but has it convinced the business world to take the plunge?

• Google Follows Rivals into Voice Search (PC Magazine)

  PC Magazine - A free app for the iPhone, developed by the search giant, is available for free through the iTunes app store. It converts spoken questions into Google searches. And yes, this has been done before, many times.

• "Pet Earth" iPhone game champions defending the planet (AFP)

  AFP - Travel-planning website GoPlanit.com has launched an iPhone game in which players shake, tap and blow on devices to defend nature on a "Pet Earth" and earn world-greening virtual trees.

  
  

• Report: Apple struggling with iPhone in India (CNET)

  CNET - There is a huge market for mobile phones in India, but according to the locals, Apple's iPhone hasn't even made a dent.

• Thai True Move in deal with Apple to sell 3G iPhone (Reuters)

  Reuters - Thailand's third largest mobile phone firm, True Move, a subsidiary of True Corp, said on Thursday it had signed a deal with Apple Inc to sell the 3G iPhone in Thailand.

• LG, Sharp, Chunghwa admit to LCD price fixing (CNET)

  CNET - Updated at 12:40 p.m. PST with Dell's comments and historical perspective on Apple iMac shortages due to lack of LCD flat panel displays.