Microsoft launches MSN Music almost four months late
Microsoft is finally launching MSN Music, a music streaming and download service, nearly four months later than originally scheduled.
Source: The Telegraph
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Mobile phone giant Nokia sues Apple over iPhone
Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, took on the iconic iPhone on Thursday by suing U.S. rival Apple for infringing 10 Nokia patents on mobile phone technology.
Source: Canada.com
Wolfram Alpha Launches $50 iPhone App
On Thursday WolframAlpha launched its developer API, which should allow large and small developers (as well as businesses and educational institutions) to harness the power of the computational knowledge engine to enhance their own applications or products. Today, the WolframAlpha iPhone app (iTunes link) — which was built using the new API — was released to the App Store.
Source: Mashable
Apple on Snow Leopard Bug: Help Is on the Way!
In response to widespread media coverage Monday, Apple has acknowledged a bug in its latest operating system, Snow Leopard, that involved some users losing a large amount of their data when logging into guest accounts.
Source: Wired
Adobe Flash CS5 will compile native iPhone and touch games
Adobe Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple AppStore.
Source: CS5
Top 10 social iPhone apps
We present the top 10 iPhone apps for keeping in touch with friends, and getting the views of others…
Source: The Telegraph
The iPhone App for the iT Staff
Phone apps started with the average consumer, then spread to small businesses, now they’ve hit the corporate level. Several apps are now aimed directly at the people who run computer networks for companies.
Source: BusinessWeek
Best mobile apps for iPhone and Androids
Mini-programs, with which users download a collection of favourites and store on their phone, are a billion dollar industry.
Source: Times Online
Game Console Makers Feeling the Heat from Apple
There’s a growing sense in the gaming industry that we may finally have reached “good enough” in the realm of hardware. And as the battle shifts from primarily hardware to software and great downloadable content, there is one unexpected player sitting pretty in the marketplace: Apple.
Source: Mashable
The worst Microsoft ads of all time
A cringe-inducing Microsoft advert has been doing the rounds this week – but there are plenty of other skeletons in the company’s closet.
Source: The Guardian