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Verizon Wireless announced today that Loopt, a social-mapping service, will be available next month.

Users can share location information, status messages and geo-tagged photos with their friends. Consumers can view where friends in their private network are located via a map displayed on their mobile phones and connect and share their locations with anyone in their address books or AIM buddy lists. Detailed Loopt maps show users where friends are, what they are doing and how to meet up with them, offering social tools to connect, share and explore the real world.

Loopt is permission-based and users share location information only with their known friends via private networks. In addition, users can turn location-sharing on or off at any time on a friend-by-friend basis or for all friends at once.

Verizon Wireless customers will be able to purchase Loopt beginning in April, costing $3.99 monthly access.

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Apple is expected to launch a high-speed wireless version of iPhone in the second quarter and produce as many as 8 million of the devices in the third quarter, according to Bank of America.

“Our latest channel checks point to a significant production build of a 3G iPhone beginning in the month of June after an initial small build in May,” said Bank of America analyst Scott Craig.

AT&T said last year it expects to be able to sell a 3G version of iPhone in 2008, but it declined comment on specific launch dates on Friday. Taiwan-based Hon Hai, which operates stateside under the trade name Foxconn Electronics, is currently in the bidding for the 3G iPhone contract from Apple. Should Hon Hai successfully land the contract, it could ship an additional 10 million mobile handsets per year. Apple declined to comment.

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Why, in the midst of a major Windows Home Server push, would HP introduce a little Linux-based NAS at half the price? And why would HP make the $300 Media Vault mv2120 so full featured and easy that its $600-and-up MediaSmart Servers look
A) too bulky
B) too expensive
C) too overloaded
D) all of the above?
Is HP telling Microsoft there’s no need for Windows Home Server, especially in light of its recent troubles? Or is HP saying that WHS is nice, but it’d be nicer if it was actually priced as an accessory? Whether the new Media Vault is a lurch away from Microsoft’s gravitational pull, or whether it’s a placeholder until Redmond can come up with a formula for $300 WHS boxes, it’s a pretty cool little machine.
See, one of the reasons I liked Windows Home Server so much is that after dealing with many NAS products from the storage companies and […]

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When it comes to writing about Apple, deciding what you should and should not cover can be tricky.
You can take the machine gun approach: Anything said, written, rumored, or signaled via smoke should be dutifully blogged with a hint of snark and just enough insight to make readers think, “…

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The scene in Office Space where they take revenge on their printer really hit home for me because I used to have a paper jam piece of crap at an old job that I would have loved to smash. Chances are, you have a similar piece of equiptment at your office that never works properly and is just begging to be put out of its misery. So, the question is: which of the following office gadgets would you love to destroy?

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You know those QR codes that Japan has? The ones that look like fancy bar codes that you take a picture of with your cellphone that brings up some bit of info or trivia on the display. Those are being tested in SF right now on 500+ restaurants/shops/businesses reviewed by Citysearch.
Once you snap a picture of the code, your phone will bring up the Citysearch’s review page, letting you know whether you should go in. Also, a tourism company is shoving these onto some tourist locations, bringing up a 15 to 20-second audio snippet of what you’re looking at. If they could stick this on things like busses, taxis, waitresses, drug dealers and prostitutes (all common in SF), we’d gladly use this service. [SFGate via New Launches]

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