Great find by Federico Viticci.

The Verge:

Want to test your iPhone 5’s latest and greatest network technology right now? Here’s our full list of live LTE markets working off the latest official data provided by the carriers.

The list shows Verizon has many more LTE capable locations than AT&T and Sprint.

Mashable:

Traditionally, people keep dead presidents in their hearts, history books and wallets. Here’s a new place to look for fallen leaders of the free world: your Twitter feed.

Twitter is great for keeping in touch with family and friends, chatting with people about the day’s events and now – you can converse with (fake) dead presidents.

Jean-Louis Gassée on Apple Maps:

The ridicule that Apple has suffered following the introduction of the Maps application in iOS 6 is largely self-inflicted. The demo was flawless, 2D and 3D maps, turn-by-turn navigation, spectacular flyovers…but not a word from the stage about the app’s limitations, no self-deprecating wink, no admission that iOS Maps is an infant that needs to learn to crawl before walking, running, and ultimately lapping the frontrunner, Google Maps.

Hard to argue with that.

But lately things have changed. It’s been a long, gradual shift, though I can definitely see it more clearly in the past year. Startups are hiding (or being hidden) behind a great firewall, intended to protect them until they’re ready but instead sheltering them like an awkward child.

I’ve noticed this with some companies too. It seemed odd to me and still does.

The total of the jury’s August 24 damages award ($1,049,393,540) and Apple’s requested enhancements, supplemental damages and prejudgment interest would be $1,756,121,384 ($1.756 billion). The amount could even go up to $1,911,963,273 if the court grants Samsung’s wish to disaggregate the jury award but ends up agreeing with Apple.

These are really good.

Now you can easily remove image imperfections or just about any image element you want, so your pictures look their absolute best.

That’s what I love about the Pixelmator guys. They keep making amazing software with features that everyone can use, not just the pros. Check out the video on their site to see the healing tool in action.

Many thanks to Pixelmator for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week.

Yahoo! Tech:

Could the days of having to turn your cell phone off when flying be nearing an end? Aircraft manufacturer Boeing seem to think so. It’s begun the process of outfitting new models of its 747, 777, and 787 airliners with hardware to allow incoming and outgoing calls, with the aim of making them available to airlines by 2013.While this technology sounds like a boon for air travelers who’ve long awaited the ability to make calls while flying, they shouldn’t start celebrating just yet. Whether or not you’ll be able to fire up your phone in-flight still depends on the approval of government agencies such as the FAA who’ll have the final call on, well, calls from 30,000 feet.

Please Boeing, I’m begging you – don’t do this to us.

Ben Bajarin:

Microsoft needs developers to be writing touch based applications but my concern with the touch based hardware fragmentation is that it will may cause them to target only specific screen sizes and not others. This would mean that the touch based software experience will be better on some Windows 8 hardware but not others. I can tell you right now that an application that is built for 10” Windows 8 hardware is not going to be a pleasant experience on a 27” all-in-one running Windows 8 with a touch screen.

Clearly copied. If Swiss Federal Railways wants compensation, Apple has to pay up.

[Via DF]

Looks like it’s coming soon.

Chris Herbert put together some of the changes in iOS 6.

Funny to hear HP talk about how it designs sleek computers and they look just like a MacBook Air. However, When left on their own, this is what they put out.

I don’t have a Charvel… yet.

“Steve Jobs Would Have Never Released iOS 6 Like This”

You have failed your readers when that’s the headline for your story. Remember the first version of OS X? Yeah, that was Steve. Do some actual reporting.

Security researchers participating in the Mobile Pwn2Own contest at the EuSecWest Conference in Amsterdam today demonstrated how to hack Android through Near Field Communication (NFC). The 0day exploit was developed by four MWR Labs employees (two in South Africa and two in the UK) for a Samsung Galaxy S 3 phone running Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Two separate security holes were leveraged to completely takeover the device, and download all the data from it.

Perfect!

I did a live interview with BNN this morning about the iPhone 5.

Additionally, we’ve learned an updated iOS 6 version of the Google Maps.app has been submitted to Apple.

Nope.

Yes, there’s an app for that.

One of my favorite developers, David Barnard from App Cubby, just released updates for two of his apps, Launch Center Pro and Timer, adding iPhone 5 support.