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Hints at iPhone Copy and Paste in Firmware 2.1?
Mac Rumors - The new iPhone 2.1 Beta Firmware that was released to some iPhone developers yesterday has been found to have hints at an upcoming Copy and Paste feature.
Apple Seeds iPhone 2.1 Firmware with GPS Features
Mac Rumors - According to the site, Apple has included new Core Location features that might suggest that turn-by-turn GPS could become a reality. Core Location can reportedly track your direction and the speed at which you are traveling.
Analyst Says Android and Symbian to Merge, Nokia and Google to get Matching Tattoos
Engadget - According to the oracle-like superbrains at J. Gold Associates, Google's Android OS and Nokia's Symbian will "combine to provide a single open source OS," sometime in the very near future... say, three to six months.
Hands on: Yahoo Misses Mark with Zimbra Desktop Office Suite
ars technica - Yahoo leads the e-mail market with over 250 million users, many of whom, by extension, probably use its other productivity apps like Yahoo Calendar. This is why Yahoo's acquisition of online collaboration suite Zimbra last fall made sense, as the company was obviously looking to step up its game with a more robust software suite for its products.
Now the Senate wants to Add a Copyright Czar to the White House
Techdirt - The House of Representatives not been explained, beyond the usual propaganda from those who rely on that business model. It's quite clear from all the companies we see who are succeeding by changing to new business models that don't rely on copyright that this is a business model issue, not a legal one.
