Daily Dispatch: Bing's maps now with street view; Complain to AT&T with new iPhone app

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Bing Launches Streetside Maps (Information Week)

...The new experience, which Microsoft is calling Streetside, goes a step further than Google's Street View in that it can layer posts from Twitter and other third-party services atop the "physical canvas" behind the street imagery.

AT&T's new iPhone app conveys your disappointment in real time (Engadget)

...The AT&T Mark The Spot app offers long-suffering (or even the intermittently bedeviled) customers the ability to ping their carrier in real time, with location-specific feedback, should one experience a coverage crisis.

Explore a whole new way to window shop, with Google and your mobile phone (Official Google Blog)

...We're calling these businesses the "Favorite Places on Google" and you'll now start to find them in over 9,000 towns and cities, in all 50 states. You can also explore a sample of the Favorite Places in 20 of the largest U.S. cities at google.com/favoriteplaces. Each window decal has a unique bar code, known as a QR code that you can scan with any of hundreds of mobile devices—including iPhone, Android-powered phones, BlackBerry and more—to take you directly to that business's Place Page on your mobile phone.

Dell creates mobile-phone unit (mocoNews.net)

...The creation of the separate group signals how serious Dell is about entering the mobile market, which will likely span from phones to portable computers with embedded wireless chips. To be sure, it will be facing other major PC-makers, like Acer, in the space.

Mercedes' Splitview Offers His-and-Hers LCDs (PCMag.com)

Mercedes-Benz Splitview display lets the driver and passenger see different material on the same in-dash LCD, typically navigation for the driver, a movie for the passenger.

FedEx Joins the Internet of Things With SenseAware (ReadWriteWeb)

International courier giant Fedex has just released a new tracking device and web service for packages. Called SenseAware, it keeps tabs on the temperature, location and other vital signs of a package - including when it's opened and whether it was tampered with along the way.

Questions for Jeffrey P. Bezos (New York Times)

...What do you say to Kindle users who like to read in the bathtub? I'll tell you what I do. I take a one-gallon Ziploc bag, and I put my Kindle in my one-gallon Ziploc bag, and it works beautifully. It's much better than a physical book, because obviously if you put your physical book in a Ziploc bag you can't turn the pages. But with Kindle, you can just push the buttons.

Lighter side: Cartoon: Attention, Mobile Shoppers... (ReadWriteWeb)
A Noise to Signal comic offers commentary on the growing penetration of smartphones capable of online shopping.