One major GPS maker has a working turn-by-turn navigation system already developed for the iPhone. Thanks to Apple’s silence on the SDK and whether it forbids turn-by-turn GPS apps, however, it can’t be released to the public. Other GPS companies are playing the waiting game too.
Remember that MobileMe phishing e-mail that made the rounds earlier this week? A couple hundred customers took the bait and fell for the scam, investigators have found, and this is probably only the beginning for Apple’s customers.
Pixar has been traditionally big on using using Linux servers for their RenderMan Pro Server software. Even though the company was developed by Steve Jobs and later sold to Disney, Mac servers as cluster nodes are not widely used, according to Computerworld on Friday. There are multiple reasons for…
(Via Macworld.)
If you’re looking for ways to get more control over your Mail inbox, consider taking advantage of a built-in feature in Mail’s rules to help you identify those messages that need your immediate attention. As you’re probably aware, you can use Mail’s Rules to set up rules that filter your e-mail, based on conditions you specify. By using one of the Apple-provided conditions, you can set up a rule to help you (visually and/or audibly) identify e-mails from people you are actively corresponding with.
(Via MacNN.)
Premiere Radio Networks has announced that this weekend, a new, three-hour music countdown show backed by Apple will launch, titled The iTunes Download (link not yet functional). The show will be hosted by iTunes’ Director of Music Programming, Alex Luke, and be broadcast from Los Angeles to a number of Top 40-format radio stations. The show will air weekly on Saturday or Sunday, and will feature the 30 most downloaded songs in America, as well as interviews with highlighted artists. Luke will also draw attention to celebrity playlists, and iMixes, the playlists shoppers create in the iTunes Store.
(Via LinuxWorld.)
“VMware has been focusing on standardization efforts much more seriously of late. They realize that the actual hypervisor functionality is being quickly commoditized, or near-commoditized, and like every other virtualization vendor, they’re eyeing virtualization management as the source of green-field revenue,” said Michael Coté, an analyst with Redmonk. “IT management is by its nature a heterogenous undertaking, and even for market leaders like VMware, that means promoting standards and openness, at least at the lower levels of the stack.”
(Via Techdirt.)
You may recall late last year that an investigation in Ohio turned up that all e-voting machines used in the state during the 2004 election had malfunctioning problems. Earlier this year, officials declared machines from that election a crime scene to be investigated, and now Ohio has filed a lawsuit against Premiere Election Solutions, the company better known as Diebold (it changed its name after tons of bad press).
In an otherwise innocuous announcement that the iTunes App Store has seen 60 million downloads since its beginning, Steve Jobs confirmed the existence of a software “kill switch” on the iPhone.
Whichever way you cut it, that’s a big number, even if, as Gigaom’s Om Malik suggests, people aren’t actually using most of those applications. Even more interesting for us, though, is the strangely open and forthcoming answer Jobs gave when asked about the remote kill switch for iPhone applications. Jobs confirmed that it is indeed possible for Apple to reach into your phone from afar and disable applications: “Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull” he told the Wall Street Journal.
This is enough to keep me away from the iPhone. Personally, I’m glad I didn’t jump in May as planned. I’ll stick with a phone I own and control - the Blackberry.
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