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Great news for all you DViceNews fans out there and for everyone that likes to watch great videos on the newest tech.  DViceNews has launched a new YouTube channel in an effort to bring new product and news videos to all of our excellent readers and fans.

On August 18^th, DViceNews posted our first unboxing video.  We filmed a video unboxing on the brand new Motorola Droid 2 by Verizon.  Our friends at Verizon were kind enough to provide us with a demo model of the newly launched Smartphone so we could provide our readers with even more up-to-date coverage on what’s new in tech.

Welcome back for your weekly dose of the Top iPhone Apps.  As usual, our three categories are Top Free, Paid and Top Grossing.

As apps increasingly become a part of our daily lives, we want to know the apps that you use to help you to become more productive and efficient.  Please contact us or leave us comments with suggestions that you might have or with apps that you’d like us to review.

The top 5 apps by category are:

Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Apologizes Promises Simpler Privacy Options

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On Monday, Facebook Chief Mark Zuckerberg wrote a column in the Washington Post admitting that Facebook screwed up the latest iteration of their privacy offering and promised to provide an easier way to maintain control over their information.  He went into very little detail in the article except to say that they have been listening and now realize that they missed the mark by attempting to offer so many controls.  He indicated that he believes the number of privacy options that have been offered has created confusion and that in the coming weeks it will be fixed.

Ford's socially equipped 2011 Ford Fiesta - courtesy of Crunch Gear

Ford, in partnership with the University of Michigan have geeked out two 2011 Ford Fiesta’s and are putting them on the road to go cross country and engage us via various forms of social media all along the way.

Several Michigan University students worked on an app for their car while Ford worked to equip the other new Fiesta with custom apps that would allow the car to tweet its statuses and to do automatic Check-Ins via foursquare, a global positioning social media application, so you can tell where they are and where they’ve been.  The cars are even connected back to a website that has a real-time gas mileage indicator so that we can see how they’re doing on fuel consumption.

Amazon has announced that it will be releasing Kindle software version 2.5 to a limited test group soon and then to all users by the end of May of this year.

There are a number of updates of interest, but the biggest addition is the ability to access facebook and Twitter.  This social networking access will give Kindle owners the ability to share excerpts from the material they are reading with their friends.

Other updates include the ability to organize books into collections, the ability to see what other Kindle users think are interesting or important in the books you are reading, panning and zooming on PDF documents and fonts are being sharpened up to making reading easier and more comfortable.

There has been some talk lately about the trouble that third party Twitter developers might be in on the iPhone platform due to the fact that Twitter has purchased an existing app to update and revise as the official Twitter app for iPhone.  The app that Twitter has purchased is currently called Tweetie 2 by developer atebits.  I believe this is one of the most useful Twitter apps available today for iPhone.

If you knew that everything you ever tweeted was going to be saved forever and would give future generations a glimpse into what our society was like in the early days of social networking, would it change what you tweeted?

The Library of Congress has announced that it will be archiving all public tweets that have been posted since Twitter emerged in 2006.  The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, archiving millions of books, pamphlets, music, manuscripts, and maps that are registered  within the United States.  Now, with the decision to archive all tweets, it is making a big move into the acquisition of digital records.