Macworld.com - TomTom's long-awaited turn-by-turn navigation app for the iPhone, TomTom U.S. & Canada (iTunes link), is now available on the US iTunes App Store.

InfoWorld - Every year InfoWorld painstakingly selects its Bossie Award winners -- the best open source software for business -- and every year we have shamefully neglected the very cream of the open source crop.

PC World - The cyberattacks against Georgia a year ago were conducted in close connection with Russian criminal gangs, and the attackers likely were tipped off about Russia's intent to invade the country, according to a new technical analysis, much of which remains secret.

Reuters - Sony Ericsson on Monday entrusted the head of Ericsson's U.S. technology division with the task of leading the struggling cellphone maker back to profit and reversing a sharp decline in market share.

PC World - Electronics shops in Taipei's well-known Guang Hua computer market are perhaps the first retail outlets to offer Intel's latest Lynnfield microprocessors.

Macworld.com - Verbatim on Monday introduced its line of InSight portable USB hard disk drives. They’re Mac and Windows-compatible and come in 320GB and 500GB capacities, priced at $120 and $150 respectively.

PC World - TomTom released Monday its turn-by-turn navigation application for iPhone. The app costs $100 and uses the iPhone's built-in GPS chip to provide users with real-time navigation directions.

AP - China will appeal a World Trade Organization ruling that ordered it to ease restrictions on imports of movies, music and books in a case brought by Washington, a Commerce Ministry spokesman said Monday.

AFP - The English version of user-generated online encylopedia Wikipedia hosted its three millionth article on Monday -- an entry about a Norwegian actress.

Reuters - Dell Inc is developing mobile devices for China Mobile Ltd (0941.HK), according to a spokesman for Dell, which has long been rumored to have ambitions in the advanced phone market.

Reuters - U.S. videogame equipment and software sales fell 29 percent in July to $848.9 million, research group NPD said on Thursday, as the gaming industry limps through the economic downturn.

Macworld.com - Netgear on Monday announced the availability of its ProSafe 8-Port VPN Firewall (model FVS318G). It's priced at $139.

InfoWorld - ThoughtWorks Studios, the products division of the ThoughtsWorks consulting firm, is integrating three flagship products to produce an ALM (application lifecycle management) platform for agile software development projects.

Reuters - International Business Machines Corp is looking to the building blocks of our bodies -- DNA -- to be the structure of next-generation microchips.

Reuters - Heavy subsidies shelled out by telecom operators around the world to lure consumers to buy an Apple iPhone have done nothing to increase profits, and have even dented them in some cases, a research report showed on Monday.

AP - The growing popularity of Web-address shortening services like bit.ly creates the potential for a bevy of broken links should one of the providers suddenly cease operations.

AFP - Global police agency Interpol said on Monday it is putting its database of stolen art online in a bid to stem the illicit traffic of artwork and cultural goods.

AP - Wireless technology developer InterDigital Inc. said Monday it expects third-quarter sales of $73.5 million to $75.5 million, just below Wall Street forecasts of $76.8 million.

NewsFactor - IBM Research and the California Institute of Technology on Monday announced a scientific advancement that could make way for the semiconductor industry to build more powerful, faster, tinier, more energy-efficient computer chips. The breakthrough draws from lessons scientists have learned from DNA.

AP - PC maker Dell Inc. is working on a smart phone for China Mobile Ltd., China's biggest cell phone carrier.

NewsFactor - It may no longer be necessary to use a GPS navigation device if you have an Apple iPhone 3G or 3GS. On Monday, GPS heavyweight TomTom said its new $99 turn-by-turn app, TomTom for the iPhone, is now available on Apple's App Store.

PC World - Miniature iPhones, handsets that double as shavers and others shaped like packs of cigarettes are just some of the gray-market devices on sale at Chinese markets.

PC World - The new TomTom app that turns an iPhone into a turn-by-turn GPS navigation system spells the beginning of the end for standalone GPS. Not everywhere, but at least on dashboards, where a smartphone can now do everything a GPS can do and cost less than purchasing both.

AP - The writers' grievances came in the form of angry letters, carried over bumpy rural roads to the newspaper office serving the Amish community.

PC World - Copyleft lawyers take note: Your arguments against heavy fines for illegal music downloads don't stand a chance.

PC World - A U.S. judge has ordered a Delaware man who sold copies of software packages on an Internet auction site to pay US$210,563 in damages and court costs, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) announced Monday.

NewsFactor - Sony Ericsson is shaking things up with executive changes. The management shake-up at the London-based company comes as mobile-phone businesses struggle to make a profit.

Macworld.com - i.TV already helps you find out what to watch. Now the makers of the mobile programming guide for the iPhone and iPod touch want to give you control over what you’re watching as well.

PC Magazine - The ongoing battle between Apple and Mac clone maker Psystar continued last week with Apple accusing the company of destroying evidence – and Psystar gearing up to depose nine of Apple's top executives.

PC Magazine - Dell on Sunday showed a 'proof of concept' smart phone at an event sponsored by Chinese wireless carrier China Mobile, Dell spokesman Matt Parretta said.

NewsFactor - The day when you can regularly receive and send high-definition video from your smartphone is closer, following Verizon Wireless' announcement Friday that it has completed its first successful field test of 4G/Long Term Evolution (LTE) data calls. The tests, using the 3GPP Release 8 standard, were conducted in Boston and Seattle, and the company said the calls involved file uploads and downloads, streaming video, and Web browsing.

AP - Shares of video game companies took a hit Monday, even as rumors mounted about a looming price cut for Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3.

AP - Germany's Software AG said Monday it was offering euro15 ($21.15) a share in cash for all the outstanding stock of fellow software company IDS Scheer AG after announcing in July it intended to acquire the company.

AFP - A hacking incident report released Monday warns there has been a steep rise in attacks at social-networking hotspots including wildly popular microblogging service Twitter.

Macworld.com - Add Default Folder X to the list of apps that offer support for Apple’s upcoming Mac OS X 10.6 update. St. Clair Software on Monday rolled out Default Folder X 4.3, which adds full support for Snow Leopard to the file dialog enhancement utility.

NewsFactor - TomTom unleashed turn-by-turn personal navigation software for Apple's iPhone 3G and 3GS models on Monday. The software is now available for download from Apple's App Store.

PC World - Dell plans to start selling a mobile phone in China but has not yet announced availability, it said on Monday.

PC World - EBay's ambitious project to remake its Selling Manager set of e-commerce tools into an open platform and repository of third-party applications reached another milestone on Monday when it was opened to the marketplace's sellers.

Macworld.com - Even people who aren’t Apple fans recognize the company’s distinctive, iconic logo; it ranks up there with the Nike swoosh or NBC peacock. But most probably aren’t familiar with the story behind the design. First created in 1977, the Apple logo was the handiwork of Rob Janoff, an art director at advertising and public relations firm Regis McKenna.

AP - Massachusetts is planning to 'democratize the data' behind its public transportation network.

AP - Five Facebook users have filed a civil lawsuit in California alleging that the social networking site violates state privacy laws and misleads people about how their personal information is used.

PC World - Red Hat has expanded its partner program to give companies more options for how they can work with the Linux vendor, more ways to demonstrate their areas of product expertise to customers and more discounts on product pricing, the company said Monday.

InfoWorld - Moonlight 2.0, which is open source software that puts Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application technology on Linux, was offered up as a beta release on Monday, the chief developer of the technology said in a blog entry.

PC World - Nearly half of U.S. consumers are interested in cellular modems, but only at half the price that service providers are charging for plans, according to survey results announced Monday by ABI Research.

Reuters - Radiohead offered a new song for free download Monday, 'These Are My Twisted Words,' which is available from the band's official Web site.

AP - Business software company CDC Corp. on Monday reported a $3 million second-quarter profit, reversing a year-ago loss, as cost-cutting measures offset a drop in revenue.

PC World - TomTom's new GPS navigation application for the iPhone may sound appealing, but its true cost and capabilities are still a mystery. The app costs $100 and allows the iPhone to function as a real-time navigation device that provides turn-by-turn directions.

AP - Microsoft Corp.'s souped-up Internet search engine gained a little more ground on industry leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. in July, according to data released late Monday.

PC World - Users of the first Android phone, the G1, may be unable to get significant future operating-system updates because the phone's internal flash is nearly full.

PC World - The technical problems that affected the performance and availability of third-party Twitter applications in recent days have been fixed, the micro-blogging and social networking company said Monday evening.

PC World - Samsung and mobile unified-communications pioneer DiVitas Networks are working to make enterprise telephony functions work better on dual-mode handsets using Microsoft Windows Mobile.

AFP - IBM said it was looking to DNA 'origami' for a powerful new generation of ultra-tiny microchips.