»  CourseSmart, the e-textbook service launched by publishers like McGraw-Hill Education, is now offering free iPhone and iTouch apps to its subscribers. This could be a preemptive strike against Amazon, since seven colleges will be testing the Kindle DX for textbooks this fall. [Wall Street Journal]

»  If AT&T (NYSE: T) can sell netbooks in some stores, why shouldn’t Dell start selling mobile phones? Rumor has it that the computer giant is very close to launching a mobile phone in China. [TechCrunch]

»  Samsung’s Android phone is set to launch tomorrow in Taiwan. Will it be able to stand up to the HTC Hero? [Computer World]

»  It’s been said that “serious” people have a BlackBerry, while techies, artists (and maybe wanna-bes) have iPhones. But what about Android users? Survey of the top apps shows that they’re all business, too. [Pocket-Lint]