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Yesterday night Facebook updated their iPhone application to version 3.2 which brings the new Places feature to our favorite phone.

Late Wednesday evening, Facebook added a location check-in feature to their hugely popular iPhone app . “Places” is the official title, and the social media kingpin is expected to be the eventual champion of such (GPS) location based utilities

When Google Navigation hit the scene, it sounded the death knell for paid GPS on Android, so you can imagine the doom and gloom at Vlingo HQ last week when Google released the similar Voice Actions for free.

Man, this is rich. Some two years after being sued by Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, Premier Elections Solutions (formerly, and more infamously known as Diebold ) has decided to settle up

In case it wasn’t obvious enough from Apple ’s agitated response to our question during today’s iPhone 4 Q&A session in Cupertino, there’s no software fix in the pipeline for the antenna issues that are plaguing users today. A prior report in the New York Times seemed fairly confident that the troubles could (and would) be solved in the near term by a simple software update, but the company’s own Scott Forstall called said report “patently false.” So, there you have it — the only thing that’ll be fixed via software is how big your smallest bar of signal is.