Apple denies 'rejecting' Google Voice for iPhone

SEATTLE — Apple Inc. told federal regulators Friday that it blocked the Google Voice program from running on the iPhone because it alters important functions on the device — yet Apple denied that it has rejected Google's application outright.

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New Pirate Bay to be based on give-and-take models

STOCKHOLM — One of the world's largest filesharing Web sites, The Pirate Bay, is going legal through a series of give-and-take payment models that in some cases may even earn its users a bundle of cash, the new owners said Saturday.

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If Apple tries to convince you that Mac is unassailable, its not exactly so. There's is no denying Macs are almost impregnable to viruses and spyware unlike the PC's. Still the Mac systems are vulnerable to hard drive crashes that even both Steves (- Jobs and Wozniak) can't shirk off. Well such a situation can be disastrous, in case you have no reliable backup or just insufficient backup. Now keeping a crude backup on CD or DVD might cost you a significant amount of time and never looks feasible for bulky backup's. Why worry, when there are a number of backup programs available for Mac OS X. Some of these are freeware, while there are others are feature-rich programs that come as shareware or commercial packages. After a thorough research we found the 10 best backup software for Mac.

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For long RealPlayer had been the only tool that could play passport-sized videos on your PC or mobile. Now Real Network's software is not the only one, but competing with the other media players such as the QuickTime. However, RealNetworks is keeping up with the pace. The last version of free RealPlayer SP acquired the ability to rip streaming Flash videos, such as that from YouTube, to save on your hard drive. For the latest, the RealPlayer SP version 12 was released as public beta Today. The new player allows you to transcode the videos into appropriate formats for playback on portable devices. For those using iPod or iPhone, the media player can generously enter the transcoded version into your iTunes Library.

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The countdown to iPhone 3G S official release is about to end on June 19. There's a rush for Apple's souped-up smartphone that is said to have a doubled up speed, longer battery life, cut-and-paste, video-recording capability and much more.  You gotta grab one as the flood gates open. If you are the lazy leg who has yet not pre-ordered Apple's new iPhone 3G S handsets and wanna have the handset by Friday, you are not completely out of luck. Don't pay heed to the reports that iPhone 3G S pre-order stock is sold out. You need to be Johnny-on-the-spot. I'll let you know were to look for and when to act.
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Are you one of those Mac buffs who's waiting to catch a glimpse of the much-hyped Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard? Voila! I dug out an  extensive screenshot gallery of the latest Snow Leopard 10.6 distributed at this week's Apple developers conference. The screeshot provide a clue of Apple's polished operating system that is receiving its final touches. The screenshots were published in MichealFlux.com. It's quite interesting to see the modification in interface and other enhancements incurred throughout the software and its applications. To make things easier for you, we picked an assortment of relevant shots from the gallery. Each shot is followed by its description.
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WASHINGTON - If a new, tech-savvy White House is using new social networking tools - Twitter, Facebook and text messages - to spread its message, it is because media in the United States has turned to them in a big way to provide news and instant analysis.

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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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Apple is all set to host the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco's Moscone Center that will begin from Monday. It has been customary for the back-fence talks to intensify on eve of WWDC, turning on the guessing game for Apple's would-be release. This time the banners read WWDC: One year later. Light-years ahead. The phrase combined with all the application icons, provide a clear hint that the crux of the conference will be the App Store and the new features of the iPhone OS 3.0. In its announcement of the conference keynote address, Apple.
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The whole world is buzzing in with the competition that Palm Pre is gonna face with the mighty iPhone but on the other hand, gadget gurus predict that a smartphone to truly match and perhaps surpass the quality of iPhone is here. In a remarkable achievement, Palm Inc., a company that was something of a has-been, has come up with a phone operating system that is more powerful, elegant and user-friendly. The Pre, which goes on sale Saturday for $200 (after a mail-in rebate) at Sprint stores, makes it easier to do more things on the go.

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