According to AllThingsDigital Facebook blocked Apple from using the Facebook API to access user data. Using Facebook’s API is normally free, but not for large scale access and not if it’s getting used a lot. iTunes got a user base of 160million, so that would be quiet a lot. Kara Swisher writes: Sources said Apple [...]

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According to Businessweek there are rumors that Intel is about to purchase german chip manufacturer Infineon. Infineon is a former Siemens subsidary that has been spun out of the parent company in 1999. Infineon is the main supplyer of the baseband modem chips of Apple’s iPhone.

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Check Apple’s latest gadget. Now including video chat (via additional face camera) 5 megapix camera HD recording (720p at 30 frames/sec) 960×640 px display size 16GB / 32GB As expected, the leaked photos and videos of the iPhone 4 shown on Gizmodo some weeks ago were real.

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More videos showing Apple’s allegedly upcoming new Jesus phone iPhone 4G have surfaced on YouTube… Check’em here: and here: and another one:

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Soon after they bought the iPad they found out it hasn’t got any usable interfaces, so it seems unusable as a notebook replacement, but it makes up as a skateboard replacement pretty well. See for yourself: Fuel.TV’s latest episode of Built To Shred. And hey: please don’t do that at home, this might void your [...]

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The Examiner.com reports that they got information from HP insiders. Under code name “Hurricane” it is rumored that HP and Palm are prepping a slate tablet running Palm’s latest operating system WebOS. Their timeline says Q3/2010. Read more on Examiner.com. With HP in the back that slate could become a real competitor to the iPad. [...]

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We suppose Apple will not like that, but Oracle’s latest version of VirtualBox 3.2 Beta 1 now supports virtualization of Apple’s Mac OS X. Legal View Although Apple’s license agreement clearly prohibits installing Mac OS X on other hardware than Apple’s, the screenshot shows that even the Windows version of Mac OS X is prepped [...]

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Engadget.com reports that U.S. American Comedian Ellen DeGeneres apologized for making fun of the iPhone. In her “The Ellen DeGeneress Show ” she aired a funny Apple spoof. Sadly it seems Apple did not find it too funny. And so she seems to have been pleased to apologize… The vid is courtesy of Warnerbros. Sadly [...]

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Apple’s strategy of a “walled garden” now seems to be inspected by U.S. antitrust authorities. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department are overhauling Apple’s latest license change for the iPhone OS SDK 4.0. Although the process is at a preliminary stage, the interest of antitrust authorities show [...]

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On Wall Street Journal Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen yesterday nite answered to Steve Jobs latest attack. Jobs had released an open letter yesterday morning. The bottom line of Jobs’ letter is: Adobe Flash is something from the past, as it is not open, it is not energy efficient and it does not unleash the full [...]

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The diligent ppl from PreCentral.net report, what this automn will come from Palm: Microphone Access via API Camera Access via API Bluetooth Serial Port Profile Bonjour/Zeroconf support Background services are gonna be switched from Java to Javascript to speed up processing HTML5 Mojo Core: web Apps can include a little portion of added lines to [...]

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On saturday, 24ht Israel’s Minister of Communications released a press statement. Israel now approved the import of Apple’s iPads to Israel. The scrutiny conducted by the Ministry technical team vis-à-vis Apple’s team, International laboratory and European counterparts confirmed that the device which could be operated in various standards will be operated in Israel in accordance [...]

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According to Rixstep.com Apple plans to set up an App Store starting with the introduction of Mac OS X 10.7. Developers planning on marketing software for 10.7 will submit their products to the App Store as iPhone and now iPad developers have already done. 10.7 will have kernel support for (‘insistence on’) binaries signed with [...]

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After Apple’s announcement of their iPhone OS 4 SDK  license: Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine This came a couple of days before Adobe shipped their latest Creative Suite 5, which contains a native Flash to iPhone compiler. Sadly this compiler can [...]

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Wired reports that Apple has reconsidered their rejection of Mark Fiore’s App. Mark Fiore has just won the Pulitzer Prize. Apple originally said the App is in violation of their App Store policies and rejected it in december 2009. “I feel a little bit guilty because it feels like I am getting preferential treatment,” Fiore [...]

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Murdoch’s Fox TV has spoken to Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen. Besides talking about their intimacy to Apple, Narayen says Adobe Flash for mobile devices like Palm Pre or Android is coming in 2nd half of 2010. Regarding Apple’s anti-flash position, Narayen said: With respect to Apple, it really isn’t a technology decision as much as [...]

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Haaretz reports that several iPads have been confiscated by Israel customs during the last days. It seems the U.S. american iPads don’t comply with Israel’s wireless networks. Thus the Communications Ministry has legally blocked the import of iPads to Israel. “The iPad device sold exclusively today in the United States operates at broadcast power levels [...]

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Notorious hacker Marc Maiffre said in an interview with CNet.com that OS X is less secure than Windows. The reason why Windows is more attacked anyway is Windows’ market penetration. Read more on CNet.com…

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According to “Apple Insider” Apple is in talks with AMD. Rumors say Apple will be design their own x86 CPUs and AMD might be the company to manufacture them. Read more on Apple Insider…

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Leaked vid showing multi-tasking on iPhone 3GS It seems someone has got his hands on a developer beta of iPhone OS 4.0. The vid below shows how multi-tasking is gonna be implemented on the iPhone. We say: yes eventually multi-tasking, but no: Palm’s webOS approach to multi-tasking is unbeaten at the moment. Apple should consider [...]

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