A Japanese research firm announced recently that Android was ahead of the iPhone in market share in Japan. However, Apple is the most popular smartphone brand in the country. A driver left his truck in the driveway running to warm up with his iPhone on the front seat. A thief came by and took the truck and the owner used the iPhone GPS to track the phone and led police to the vehicle and it was recovered. Third Rail case helps keep your iPhone 4 running longer with a cool removable battery pack. The case has a removable battery packs so if you don’t need the extra juice you can just use the case itself.

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Apple is most popular in Japan, iPhone catches thief, third rail case

Navigon has updated its navigation app for the iPhone with some new features that you can buy in-app. The features add traffic gauges and speed camera locations among other things. A new study conducted by Bulletin Healthcare has surveyed the reading habits of 550,000 health pros. The study found that the vast majority of them use the iPhone to read the daily email briefings. Apple has hired a new exec away from Microsoft named Kevin Timmons. Timmons was the GM of Microsoft data centers lending weight to the rumors circulating that Apple is getting a cloud video service ready.

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Navigon GPS app gets update, Docs love the iPhone, Apple lands Microsoft exec

Navigation experts Garmin partnered with Asus up until late 2010, producing some half-hearted smartphones loaded with their GPS software.  When the divorce papers were drawn up, Garmin kept hold of the right to release their own branded navigation apps on other platforms, which has finally led to the announcement and release of their first iPhone

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If the smartphone has adversely affected the market for standalone GPS units, how will free navigation apps affect the market for pay apps?

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Good news everyone… Steve Jobs introduced the new iPhone(TM) 3G, combining all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking that is twice as fast* as the first generation iPhone, built-in GPS for expanded location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs the hundreds of third party applications already built with the recently released iPhone SDK. In the US the new iPhone 3G is priced at a stunning $199 for the 8GB model, and just $299 for the 16GB model.** iPhone 3G will be available in more than 70 countries later this year, beginning with customer availability in 22 countries

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