Sinead Carew / MediaFile:
Sprint: Android not good enough yet  —  Sprint may be having a lot of problems marketing its own brand in the last few years, but according to Chief Executive Dan Hesse, Google’s Android mobile operating system isn’t perfect either.  —  He told the National Press Club in Washington …

Agence France Presse:
Terrorist ‘tweets’?  US Army warns of Twitter dangers  —  WASHINGTON (AFP) - A draft US Army intelligence report has identified the popular micro-blogging service Twitter, Global Positioning System maps and voice-changing software as potential terrorist tools.

Phone Arena:
Hot new phones coming to Verizon next month!  —  Verizon “Big Red” Wireless wants to be better than Santa and prepares a bunch of hot new phones for the Holidays, an internal document tells us.  We’ve heard about them in earlier rumors, but here is the real deal:

Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Is Twitter the next Netscape?  —  Fred Wilson in his famous answer compared Twitter to Google when it was a pre-revenue startup.  A nice problem to have, for sure, but what if Twitter is more like Netscape than Google?  —  I was a web developer when Microsoft passed Netscape.

Steve Lohr / Bits:
Microsoft’s Vista Problem, by the Numbers  —  Microsoft reported a reassuringly solid quarter in tough times on Thursday, but its Windows business looked weak.  —  The big Windows unit reported a 2 percent rise in revenue and 4 percent decline in operating income.

John Markoff / New York Times:
Security Flaw Is Revealed in T-Mobile’s Google Phone  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Just days after the T-Mobile G1 smartphone went on the market, a group of security researchers have found what they call a serious flaw in the Android software from Google that runs it.