Not a whole lot is known about the iPhone SDK, but if what iLounge is reporting is true feelings among developers will likely be mixed.
According to “several sources familiar with Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch software development kit (SDK) plans,” here’s the scoop:
Apps will be distributed via the iTunes Store. No surprise here. Everthing iPhone [...]
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Apple’s Time Capsule product, announced at MacWorld a few weeks ago, has finally hit retail and early opinions of it are positive.
It looks like an AirPort Extreme base station, there’s a good reason for it–its more or less an AirPort Extreme base station with an internal hard drive.
The Time Capsule supports both Gigabit Ethernet and [...]
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Microsoft has lowered the price of higher end versions of its Vista operating system to try and make it more appealing to consumers.
The move seems to only effect the upgrade versions, and only those sold at retail locations.
In the US market the new pricing is:
Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade: $219 (down from $299)
Windows Vista Home Premium [...]
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Contrary to what Jeffrey Katzeberg thinks, Video Business has confirmed that both Paramount and DreamWorks will be ending their support for HD DVD next week.
On March 4th Paramount will be releasing Into the Wild and Things We Lost in the Fire on HD DVD and that’s the end. Other titles scheduled to be released on [...]
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If you’ve been following the class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over the whole “Vista Capable” mess you might have asked yourself how it happened.
158 pages from “Exhibit A” of the lawsuit have been unsealed by the judge and what they reveal is interesting and damning: Intel’s 915 chipset was initially rejected as being compatible with Vista.
A [...]
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Several weeks ago Garmin announced a GPS and phone hybrid device called the nüvifone.
But all is not right in nuvi-ville.
Business phone service provider Nuvio has filed a lawsuit against Garmin claiming that Garmin has violated Nuvio’s trademark over the name nüvifone.
Nuvio CEO Jason P. Talley said “while we would have preferred to settle this without [...]
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While still technically in alpha, Google’s Android seems to be coming along rather nicely. Darren Waters from the BBC was able to check out a demo of what Android can do while running on a prototype handset with a 300MHz processor and caught the whole thing on tape.
The demo was operated by Andy Rubin, co-founder [...]
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In October of 2006 Google acquired Jotspot, a hosted wiki application provider. After closing it down for nearly a year and a half, Google has reopened Jotspot and giving it a new name–Google Sites.
Google Sites integrates with the rest of the Google Apps such as Docs, Calendar, Picasa and YouTube and allows individuals and teams [...]
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Today Microsoft released its latest server operation system, Windows Server 2008.
New in this version is “Hyper-V”, Microsoft’s new virtualization layer and its first major challenge to VMware’s domination in this space.
Initially just a beta version of Hyper-V will be included, with Microsoft planning to add the full feature set to the product within six months.
Microsoft [...]
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