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Google Maps for Mobile now has Street View, walking directions, business reviews–if you have a phone that supports Java. That includes many BlackBerrys, but not iPhones.

You can’t access porn online while on a plane, but you can read a Playboy and watch a pornographic DVD? Don Reisinger thinks something is wrong with the airlines.

Several Windows enthusiast sites are reporting that Microsoft has hit its internal “M3″ stage for the OS and that a public test version could come as early as next month.

Marketers and advertisers are trying to catch fire on social-media sites like the hottest underground meme, but publicist and blogger Solis says that’s not the right mentality.

A new social site will help you organize a rally, raise money for a cause, or other collective actions.

Microsoft wants to feel its customers’ pain, and has enlisted its new CIO to do just that.

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Zune users get free Wi-Fi access at McDonald’s–One bit of news that didn’t leak last week: Microsoft and Wayport signed a deal to give the Zune access to Wi-Fi hot spots in more than 9,800 McDonald’s restaurants.

Video games are good for kids–A recent study shows that kids get all kinds of benefits from playing video games. I can only hope they find the same for adults.

NASA: Arctic sea ice at second-lowest level on record–Satellite microwave data confirms drastic reduction in the amount of permanent ice covering the Arctic.

Harassment from a Gmail user–Google hides the source IP address of messages they send out and won’t take complaints directly from harassment victims.

Amid the press kits and fliers peppering the media room at the New York convention, start-up Octopz handed out stuffed octopi. I’ll take one, please.

Even though her VP candidacy was only announced August 29, she was the site’s most popular subject for August, and her online popularity could make GOP Web ads more effective.