With the air over iPhone getting hotter and the App Store about to spill over with apps, Apple plans to allow the developers to in-app payments to applications through the iPhone App Store.The in-app commerce would be one of the the significant additions to the much awaited iPhone 3.0 OS.The idea seems quite simple, with transactions taking place within the application Apple is trying to change the economic trend of mobile application market. In addition, it could be a lucrative inclusion for the developers offering the opportunity to make money from their applications. From what could be anticipated, Apple could leave the smartphone competitors to dust if their plan is executed accordingly.

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With Hulu releasing its Hulu Desktop a week ago, YouTube declares a video war with its YouTube XL. With the new product, YouTube would take site viewing experience a step further. This revolutionary product will allow a vast majority of people to view YouTube's content on TV or large screen computer. Actually, YouTube XL is a redesigned version of the YouTube website and will be running on the browser. It won't need require any download to run the application.
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There was much ado about Microsoft lifting Windows 7 Starter Edition's restriction to three application. In a recent feeback to its partners and customers, Microsoft confirmed that it will. Brandon LeBlanc, a Windows communications manager at Microsoft detailing on the changes said, Microsoft would enable Windows 7 Starter customers the ability to run as many applications simultaneously as they would like, instead of being constricted to the 3 applications limit that the previous Starter editions included.

Still what remains is the Starter Edition will not be a full fledged OS, it'll renounce some of the features that makes it so unlikely. More precisely, the Windows 7 Starter edition will be a subset of the higher editions of Windows 7 like Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional and above. It seems Microsoft is all set to exploit the netbook market.  The changes introduced in Windows 7 is clearly to make it more appealing for the customers who would like to use the small notebook PC for the very basic tasks such as browsing the web, checking email and personal productivity. Let's face the reality would the change in features make Windows 7 starter edition the ultimate netbook OS.

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Microsoft has put in all its efforts to make life easier with Windows 7. Among the handy things in Windows 7, I found a new one, the Jump list. In Windows 7 you can easily access and open frequently used files or recently opened documents associated with the particular application or program, just with a right click or by sliding up the program button on the Taskbar. After the Windows 7 RC, the number of recent items or frequent items appear on the Jump List has been set to 10 by default. If you want to change, either increase or decrease the number of items on Jump List look at the trick below.
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Microsoft is getting on with Apple's ubiquitous touchscreen device. This time its up with another cutting edge application to make  iPhone users happier. The new whizkid on the iPhone blocks - Microsoft Tag holds newer commitments. This is Microsoft second iPhone add -on after Seadragon that offers seamless browsing of colossal visual information. With the Seadragon reigning, there's more to watch out with Microsoft Tag.
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