Randall Stross / New York Times:
Will Books Be Napsterized?  —  YOU can buy “The Lost Symbol,” by Dan Brown, as an e-book for $9.99 at Amazon.com.  —  Or you can don a pirate’s cap and snatch a free copy from another online user at RapidShare, Megaupload, Hotfile and other file-storage sites.

Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Why Google Chrome Frame Makes Mozilla Firefox Folks Uneasy  —  Table of Contents:  —  Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker and Mike Shaver both lamented Google’s release of Chrome Frame in blog posts.  The browser experts, who helped Mozilla’s Firefox browser reach 23.8 percent market share largely …

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Blu-ray iMacs ‘In A Few Weeks’, Apple Ace Gruber Predicts*  —  Update: Gruber has changed his call: No Blu-ray.  More here.  —  Earlier: New iMacs with Blu-ray players could be announced this month, Apple’s first set of products supporting the hi-def disc format.

Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple ads hint at thinner iMacs, lighter MacBooks, cheaper Mac minis [u]  —  First on AppleInsider: A trio of online advertisements that appear to have been published prematurely by one of Apple’s international online stores suggest it’s only a matter of days before the Mac maker takes …

Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple ads hint at thinner iMacs, lighter MacBooks, cheaper Mac minis  —  First on AppleInsider: A trio of online advertisements that appear to have been published prematurely by one of Apple’s international online stores suggest it’s only a matter of days before the Mac maker takes the wraps off …

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Blu-ray iMacs ‘In A Few Weeks’, Apple Ace Gruber Predicts  —  New iMacs with Blu-ray players could be announced this month, Apple’s first set of products supporting the hi-def disc format.  —  At the very least, Apple is coming out with a new keyboard and mouse soon, and we […]

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Palm Ignores USB Group’s Warning, Restores iTunes Sync  —  Oh, it’s really on now.  This morning Palm (PALM) announced WebOS 1.2.1 another point release to its new WebOS platform that restores media synchronization with the latest version of Apple’s (AAPL) iTunes (9.0.1).

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Newspapers & Journalism  —  Is Google a newspaper killer?  Not by a long shot, says Google CEO Eric Schmidt.  Nor does he want it to be.  In a long interview about his company’s relationship with newspapers and the print journalism industry, Schmidt made it […]

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Now Showing Ads On iPhone Map  —  We got a tip from Anthony Avolio yesterday, who pointed out that Google was showing ads on Maps on the iPhone.  Until then I hadn’t noticed it.  This is another way in which Google seems to be aligning the mobile experience […]

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Two New Apps Superimpose Wikipedia Over Your iPhone Camera View of the World  —  What is that mountain you’re driving past?  Just point your iPhone at it and you can read its Wikipedia entry.  Science fiction?  Not anymore.  Two new apps for viewing Wikipedia entries about physical locations …