Ben Charny / Digits:
Will Apple CEO Headline CES ‘10?  —  Those snubbed by Apple CEO Steve Jobs take heart.  He won’t return calls from Gary Shapiro, who heads the world’s largest consumer electronics industry trade group.  —  Bloomberg News  —  Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple, at an October 2008 press conference.

TMZ.com:
Steve Jobs — Big Man on Campus … Again  —  Steve Jobs is back to an Apple a day — and we’ve got the proof.  —  TMZ obtained this photo of the Apple co-founder leaving company headquarters in Cupertino, California around 3:00 PM today.  —  It’s the first time we’ve seen Jobs …

Rob Kerr / Inquirer:
Windows Mobile becomes Windows Phone  —  What’s in a name after all?  —  AT AN EVENT to show off upcoming Christmas goodies, Microsoft let slip to the INQ that Windows Mobile 6.5 is to be re-christened Windows Phone.  —  This, says Vole, is an effort to unboggle the minds of the […]

Robert McMillan / PC World:
IPhone SMS Attack to Be Unleashed at Black Hat  —  Apple has just over a day left to patch a bug in it’s iPhone software that could let hackers take over the iPhone, just by sending out and SMS (Short Message Service) message.  —  The bug was discovered by noted […]

Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:
Details on presidential motorcades, safe house for First Family, leak via P2P  —  Lawmakers eye bill to ban P2P use on government, contractor networks  —  Computerworld - Details about a U.S. Secret Service safe house for the First Family — to be used in a national emergency …

Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Apple’s Chickens**t Approval Process Has Gone Too Far  —  The App Store approval process has always been mysterious, slightly ridiculous and mildly infuriating.  But with the summary execution of Google Latitude as well as every Google Voice app, it’s finally gone too far.

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Palm’s Pre can’t offset Sprint’s subscriber losses  —  Sprint called the launch of the Palm Pre a success, but it wasn’t enough to offset a net subscriber loss of 257,000 in the second quarter.  —  The subscriber loss, which came amid a churn rate of 2.05 percent, illustrates Sprint’s […]

Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Yahoo committed seppuku today.  —  The once proud warrior of the internet space laid down its sword, knelt at the feet of Microsoft and gutted itself today.  There was no honor in this death, it was one brought by the shame of losing to Google and […]

Kevin / Riverturn Blog and Talk Back:
There’s No App for That  —  As has been widely reported at this point, we are very sorry to announce that Apple removed our VoiceCentral app from the App Store.  This happened suddenly, swiftly and with virtually no advance notice from Apple.  —  Repeated emails yesterday to Apple […]

Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple adds keywords to App Store additions for easier search  —  Soon after Apple admitted that improvements were needed in helping users locate App Store software, developers have been asked to add a list of keywords for their submitted applications to improve discovery.