Apple Fills in Some Gaps With Latest iPhone
Succumbing to consumer demand, Apple will finally add basic features like voice dialing and an improved camera. (NYT)+++

Keeping a True Identity Becomes a Battle Online
Some well-known names find they have to work hard at keeping squatters from claiming similar-sounding Web addresses.(NYT)+++

Switch to Digital TV Broadcasts Is a Work in Progress
The F.C.C. said it would take weeks for stragglers to get hooked up and for stations to perfect their transmissions.(NYT)+++

Used-Tech Dealers Do Booming Business in iPhone 3Gs
Gadget trade-in sites such as Gazelle and Flipswap are buying iPhones from owners eager to upgrade their device to the coming 3G S.(NYT)+++

Upgrading Your iPhone? Be Prepared for an iFail
Apple’s upgrade servers have been overloaded by legions of iPhone users eager to get the latest version of the device’s software, which was publicly released Wednesday afternoon.(NYT)+++

Why Can’t We Get an Accurate Battery Life Test for Laptops?
Because of industry bickering, laptop buyers will have to wait until at least next year to get more accurate battery life information from PC makers.(NYT)+++

I.B.M. to Invest $100 Million in Cellphone Research
The software and services giant discovers it needs to broaden its PC-centric worldview to include the cellphone.(NYT)+++

MLB.com Streams Live Baseball Games to the iPhone
Major League Baseball will start streaming two live games a day to owners of its At Bat application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.(NYT)+++

Google Searches for Ways to Keep Big Ideas at Home
Google is revamping how it develops new products, giving employees a pipeline to the company’s top brass amid worries about losing its best people and promising ideas to start-ups. (WSJ)+++

Microsoft, Google in App Clash
Microsoft said Google’s new Apps Sync disables the search capabilities of Microsoft’s popular Outlook software. (WSJ)+++

Intel Revamps Brands, Drops Centrino
Intel said it is changing the branding on its computer chips, including phasing out the high-profile brand Centrino as an identifier on laptops. (WSJ)+++

Electricity Industry to Scan Grid for Spies
The electric-utility industry is planning a pilot initiative to see whether Chinese spies have infiltrated computer networks running the power grid.(WSJ)+++

Bing Continues to Gain Ground
Microsoft’s new Bing search engine continued to gain market share in its second week of availability, according to comScore.(WSJ)+++

Sophisticated online crime ring
Researchers uncovered a sophisticated online network for buying and selling access to infected PCs, raising concerns that all kinds of computer users are growing more vulnerable to cybercrime. (SFC)+++

Design Web sites, blogs click
As home design magazines founder in a flagging economy, design buffs and remodelers are turning to the Web for inspiration.(SFC)+++

Web browser also is a server
A Norwegian firm creates technology that allows a Web browser to also function as a Web server, allowing individuals to share their files. (SFC)+++

Facebook dethrones Myspace
As one more slap in the face to the pioneer of the social networking phenomenon, Facebook has become more popular than Myspace here in the U.S.  (SFC)+++

Academic cheating, aided by cellphones or Web, shown to be common
Teenagers are, if nothing else, are extremely resourceful. A survey by Common Sense Media of more than 1,000 students ages 13 to 18 found that more than a third said they’d used cellphones to cheat at least once.  (LAT)+++

A Cool-ER electronic reader?
Intrepid techies and avid readers who want to have hundreds of books with them wherever they go have had very little choice on electronic readers. It’s either Amazon’s Kindle ($359) or Sony’s Reader ($270 to $350).  (LAT)+++

Google Apps software disables Microsoft Outlook features
Microsoft and Google are having compatibility issues. Microsoft says Google software disables some features in Outlook, the company’s e-mail and calendar software.(TST)+++

Iranians find ways to bypass Net censors
Proxy servers, Tor, Firefox plug-ins: the technological arsenal that Iranian Internet users deployed against the country’s legendary Net censors. (CNET)+++

Web standards group scrutinizing Apple patent
The W3C seeks prior art in an effort to get a handle on an Apple patent that could hold back the consortium’s work to standardize Web applications.(CNET)+++

Search leaders debate semantics
Everyone agrees that semantic search technology–the notion of correctly assessing a searcher’s intent–holds promise, and maybe money.(CNET)+++

AMD, Congo, and the perils of code names
AMD moves to retire “Congo” code name quickly after bloggers complain about link to country suffering epidemic of sexual violence and war.(CNET)+++

Report: Nvidia Tegra chip inside Zune HD
The rumors appear to be true: Microsoft’s Zune HD will use Nvidia’s Tegra processor.(CNET)+++

AT&T loosens its iPhone 3G S upgrade policy
Carrier has come around and will now offer some existing iPhone 3G customers a better upgrade price for the new iPhone 3G S.(CNET)+++

Scattered reports of iPhone OS 3.0 update problems
Most iPhone and iPod Touch users say they’ve had success in updating their devices with the new operating system, but a smattering have hit roadblocks.(CNET)+++

Recession trips up the robot revolution
Yes, our robot companions are still coming. But a report from NextGen Research shows that consumer-bots are vulnerable to macroeconomic potholes.(CNET)+++

Intel spells out Core i3, i5, i7 branding
The branding gets simplified into entry-level, midlevel, and high-level segments. Plus, how that fits in with the Lynnfield, Clarksfield, Arrandale, and Clarkdale processors.(CNET)+++

Microsoft posts teaser for Office 2010
The software maker posts a movie trailer-like video for the next version of Office as well as a “behind the scenes” interview that pokes fun at recent links.(CNET)+++

IBM investing $100 million in mobile research
With high consumer and business use of mobile devices, Big Blue says it will spend the money over next five years to improve and advance on-the-go communications.(CNET)+++

Change: Apple stores to open early Friday
Company stores will open at 7 a.m.–an hour earlier than previously announced–to accommodate the first day of iPhone 3G S sales.(CNET)+++

Microsoft’s Bing has a second good week
ComScore reports that Bing continued to tick up in market share in the past week and is now up about 3 percentage points from where Microsoft was pre-Bing.(CNET)+++

State Dept. comments on ‘talks’ with Twitter
A requested delay in the site’s scheduled downtime was solely to keep an important communication channel alive for Iranian citizens, the State Department says.(CNET)+++