Fitness enthusiasts may appreciate some of these gift ideas. Since 2003, I’ve been using GPS devices to keep track of how far I’ve run and how fast I’m going. Some even try to keep me on pace, beeping endlessly when I’m short of my goal. Full Article at Macon Telegraph

Philip Ellington, owner of the Valpak franchise in Lee and Collier Counties, says that through his business has improved in both readership and opening rates over the last five years. Full Article at Naples Daily News

In the context of the mobile platform wars, the contest is often framed as “the iPhone” versus Android, BlackBerry and rest of the smartphone market. Full Article at Mashable!

As you may have read by now, Apple decided to grace The New York Times with its presence for a long post about the App Store this weekend. Full Article at TechCrunch

Here's an app I picked up early last week that's earned a permanent home on my iPhone. Yoritsuki* by HYBRIDWORKS places you in a (virtual) Japanese inn complete with a beautiful view. Full Article at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

I've done quite a bit of testing of eBooks, and quite honestly I've had a problem with the concept of reading a whole book on an iPod touch or iPhone. At a normal font size, an eBook can display about 75 words on a single screen. Full Article at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

“It’s important to remember that the iPhone’s flank is protected by an often overlooked, powerful fighting brand: iPod Touch,” Flurry notes in a report likely to be released on Monday. Full Article at GigaOM

For years, Project Gutenberg’s people debated whether to offer books in ePub, the standard format. Then Marcello Perathoner, the PG Webmaster, just made ePub happen—as one of a bunch for formats created through a conversion scheme. Full Article at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

TIP OF THE WEEK Pogo Stylus and Sketch (www.tenonedesign.com) Because sometimes you just can’t (or don’t want to) use your finger to navigate the touch screen of your iPhone or iPod Touch, the folks at Ten One Design came up with this pair of... Full Article at Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com

Manufacturers of stand-alone GPS products will have to move quickly and smartly to transform their dumb map readers into intelligent devices that can provide a host of services like traffic avoidance. Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle

After a rocky beginning, I've been able to do many neat things with my Black iPod Classic with 120 GB, but it hasn't been without its trials and tribulations. Full Article at LXer

IAN LYNCH SMITH, a shaggy-haired ball of energy in his late 30s, beams as he ticks off some of the games that Freeverse, his little Brooklyn software company, has landed on the iPhone App Store’s coveted (and ever-changing) list of best-selling... Full Article at Daring Fireball

Moosgo, a new developer of original content for iPhone and iPod Touch, presents its latest applications. Full Article at Blogcritics.org

Katherine Hughes, of Stuart Hughes, has designed what is likely the world's most expensive iPod. Full Article at Luxist

Apple has struck a deal to buy the streaming and downloading music Web site LaLa.com, according to reports from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. It would add to Apple's music empire, but how might this acquision change Apple's tune? Full Article at PC World

In this photo made Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, a Garmin Forerunner 310XT is shown in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (AP) -- In simpler times, maintaining good health was a matter of joining a gym or lacing up running shoes for a loop in the park. Full Article at PhysOrg.com

SASKATOON -- Jumping on an emerging market, the University of Saskatchewan has become the first school in Canada that offers courses on developing iPhone applications. Full Article at Canada.com

Other cell phone applications that allows a credit card transaction to be made through a cell phone, requires the user to manually key in the credit card number. With Square, this will no longer be required. Full Article at Huliq.com

Some great advances this year in home theater have been cheaper Blu-ray players and movies, the proliferation of online TV and movie services to feed content to your computer or TV, and HDTVs themselves that are getting connected to online services. Full Article at Austin American-Statesman