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So the Verizon iPhone is finally here and you've ditched your stop-gap of an Android phone for what you really wanted all along. But wait—where are all your beloved Android features?

I recently learned of an achievement gap I never knew existed: About 85 percent of blind people can’t read Braille, and that is making most of them unemployable.

National Braille Press is working to build a prototype Android device, a “Kindle to the blind,’’ that may cost up to about $2,000.

Database Journal: "MySQL is a great database for web-facing applications, however, it tends to be a bit rough around the edges.

Enter Maatkit, a great toolkit with a bewildering array of command line tools that fill the gap where MySQL's native tools leave off.

From data replication to query profiling and optimizing, Maatkit has tools to make you smarter, and help you get your job done."

The new spec helps OpenGL close the feature gap with Microsoft's Direct3D 11.

InfoWorld: "In the CA study it found 57 percent of financial services organizations said an easy-to-use Web-enabled GUI would help close the skills gap."

Linux Magazine: "Linux distributions strive to include all the useful applications that users will need, but a quality video editor has been lacking for quite some time.

Now with KDE4 getting better and better, could an application like Kdenlive fill that gap?"

Linux distributions strive to include all the useful applications that users will need, but a quality video editor has been lacking for quite some time.

Now with KDE4 getting better and better, could an application like Kdenlive fill that gap?

Channel Register: "Novell kicked out its SUSE Linux 11 release at the end of March, so it's now time to ask how it's doing.

The answer: better than SUSE Linux 10. But still not enough to close the substantial installed base and revenue gap that exists between number one Red Hat Enterprise Linux..."

Can a project originating from San Francisco State University bridge the digital divide and bring true open source development to the iPhone platform?

It looks promising, but the climb is steep and the gap is wide.

InternetNews: "Yet an IDE itself is just a development tool, and developers still require a place to host their source code.

It's a gap that Sun is hoping to bridge with the release of its new NetBeans 6.7 IDE, which includes integrated support for Sun's Project Kenai."