Google Voice, of course, is Google’s new online service that allows you route all your calls through a new, independent phone number. The service also transcribes and stores voicemails, SMS messages and more. It’s quite handy, but it’s complicated to use from the iPhone, as it requires a user to launch Safari and use a [...]

Reuters: Apple Inc said on Friday it has issued a software update to fix a vulnerability that security experts said could allow hackers to take control of the iPhone and use it for identity theft. The security flaw in Apple’s hugely popular smartphone was disclosed Thursday at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, a [...]

An awesome photoessay by Time Magazine. The neat part is that the press had only about 30 seconds to shoot. After that, it was a private discussion.

From today’s NewsGator press release: You spoke and we listened: in response to customer demand, NewsGator’s best-of-breed consumer RSS applications now work with Google Reader. Google Reader will become the online companion to and the synchronization platform for our award-winning RSS reader applications – FeedDemon and NetNewsWire. In conjunction with this announcement, NewsGator is making [...]

Apple kbase article HT3743: As designed by Apple, the iPhone OS ensures that the iPhone and iPod touch operate reliably. Some customers have not understood the risks of installing software that makes unauthorized modifications to the iPhone OS (“jailbreaking”) on their iPhone or iPod touch. Customers who have installed software that makes these modifications have [...]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting Apple will attend the 2010 Consumer Electronic Show. 2010 of course, is the first year that Apple won’t be at the Macworld Expo: Apple plans to attend the show’s 2010 version, marking the first time in memory the Cupertino, Calif., consumer-electronics giant will be there. No news on a [...]

Macworld: The terms of the agreement — which covers search only — is 10 years, in which Microsoft will have an exclusive license to Yahoo’s core search technologies as well as the ability to integrate them into Bing, the companies said. Bing will be the exclusive algorithmic search and paid search platform for Yahoo sites, [...]

Apple Insider, on Microsoft’s retail plans: The retail locations will sell Microsoft software and first-party hardware, such as Zunes and Xbox 360 consoles. Third-party Windows software and Xbox games will also be available. [...] Last week, Microsoft’s tentative plans for its retail locations leaked online. It exposed that the company intends to imitate Apple stores, [...]

Yes, you read that correctly, according to Macworld: EMC Corp. on Tuesday announced that EMC Retrospect 8.1 is now available through its distribution channels. The new release of the venerable Mac backup and archival software application adds back support for PowerPC-based Macs and also improves performance on Intel-based Macs. A curious development, considering 10.6 is [...]

Ars Technica: The “Cocktail” project would see a further evolution of such ideas. “It’s all about recreating the heyday of the album when you would sit around with your friends looking at the artwork, while you listened to the music,” one executive familiar with the plans told Financial Times. The problem is that most of [...]