The Motorola Droid has sold well and received mostly positive reviews in the press, but a software bug is causing its camera to perform inconsistently, according to aGoogle

With a 5-megapixel camera, the Droid has one of the higher-end cameras on the market. The iPhone 3GS, a rival handset, sports a 3.2-megapixel lens. But some Droid users have complained that the device doesn’t correctly automatically focus.

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Many people who want to read electronic books are discovering that they can do so on the smartphones that are already in their pockets - bringing a whole new meaning to “phone book.” And they like that they can save the $250 to $350 that they would otherwise spend on yet another gadget.

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Starting next week, Verizon will double the early-termination fee for smartphones. That is, if you get a BlackBerry, Android or similar phone from Verizon, and you decide to switch phones before your two-year contract is up, you’ll be socked with a $350 penalty (it used to be $175).

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Ferrari’s new steering wheel inspires us.

Ferrari’s new mid-engined supercar, the 458 Italia, has a steering wheel bristling with buttons, switches, and knobs. We wondered what sort of controls could be retrofitted to the steering wheels of more everyday cars. Why stop at turn signals? Why not aim a bit higher?

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At this point, customers in 77 countries have downloaded well over two billion apps, continuing to make it the world’s most popular software store.

Apple iPhone 3G S”The App Store has forever changed the mobile gaming industry and continues to improve,” said Travis Boatman, vice president of Worldwide Studios, EA Mobile.

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An extensive study overseen by the World Health Organization has found that cell phone use may cause a slight but measurable increase in several types of tumors, some of which are dangerous.

The Interphone study, which was overseen by the World Health Organization, interviewed over 12,000 people in 13 countries in the first half of this decade.

The results have not yet been published, but a preliminary report says that it found “significantly increased risk” of tumors from using mobile phones for over 10 years.

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Adeniyi Adeyemi, 27, of Brooklyn, New York, was charged last week in a 149-count indictment for allegedly using his position as a computer technician to steal the identities of over 150 employees of the Bank of New York Mellon and to subsequently defraud charities, non-profits, and other organizations for more than $1.1 million over an eight year period.

The crimes with which Adeyemi is charged — grand larceny, identity theft, money laundering, scheme to defraud, computer tampering, and unlawful possession of personal identification information — allegedly took place between November 1, 2001 and April 30, 2009.

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The app offers capabilities whether of not a user has a ups.com account. In addition, it uses the iPhone 3G series GPS to help users find a nearby service point.

Mobile is specially designed with features that let you easily manage your shipments on the go. This app lets you track and nickname shipments, create shipping labels, find UPS service locations via GPS, and estimate shipment costs and delivery times.

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The website has a clean and simple layout unlike other giant social news sites so it has a very uncluttered easy to use feeling about. ScoopRocket just recently launched and is promoting itself by giving away a 4GB iPod Shuffle. The  registered user that accumulates the most Karma points by submitting news stories or “Scoops,” commenting and voting will win the contest. The winner will be announced on 12/01/09.

It will be interesting to see what type of buzz the site generates in the coming months. You can go register to win the iPod at ScoopRocket.com

Well, is it? If all the buzzwords about cloud computing, Web apps, software as a service (SaaS), the free desktop, and the rise of netbooks and tablet PCs, are to be believed, it may well be.

The truth, I suspect, is more modest. What looms for the desktop as we know it is not the end, but rather death and then transfiguration. The desktop PC is set to go through a grand mutation of the form that will expand its reach rather than kill its current incarnation(s) outright. It may be the end of the desktop as we know it, but also the birth of many more desktops. As Roger Ebert said about the James Bond archetype during the post-Soviet era, the sun hasn’t set on England yet — but it’s getting mighty dark out.

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