Rumor: Apple Will Include True Third Party App Multi-Tasking In iPhone OS 4.0

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AppleInsider has this delicious rumor about the iPhone. According to sources that they claim are quite trustworthy — Apple is going to switch on multi-tasking abilities on the iPhone to their full extent. The demand for true multitasking on the iPhone is probably only dwarfed by the demand for a more open app store that is not censored by Apple all the time.

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OnLive Provides On-Demand Video Games For $14.95 Per Month, Coming This June

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OnLive is a service like no other in the market. This isn’t just another online gaming service like Valve’s Steam. It is actually a cloud service that not only hosts the games the users want to play, it actually runs the game in the cloud. This leaves the user-end systems completely unburdened. This is so very different in so many ways that it has the potential to change almost the entire gaming infrastructure.

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Myxer’s MobileStage Now Serving Over 125,000 Artists Including Snoop Dogg

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Myxer is a new start up mobile content delivery company that recently started a new service called MobileStage. It is a complete mobile marketing solutin targeted at the Music Industry. It provides app marketing, analytics, mobile website creation and fan list management — that is all you need for a successful mobile campaign and Snoop Dogg agrees.

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Steam For Mac Arrives, Gamers Rejoice!

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Valve has finally gone ahead and released the Mac version of its Steam service. It has been on the gamers’ radar for a long time and Valve itself has been teasing the community for a few weeks. Then finally, at the GDC (the annual gaming dev event), Valve announced that Steam is coming to the Mac for real. Time to throw away that Boot Camp partition, I say!

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Windows Phone 7 Gets New Demo Video, New Things On Display

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Even though the Windows Phone 7 Series was released at MWC this year, we didn’t get too many details out of Microsoft. This has been attributed to that fact that Microsoft wants to save it all for MIX — their developers conference. It would make sense for them to do it because it would generate a large amount of interest in the event. More than what is usual that is. But Microsoft isn’t shy about showing off the device either. So Charlie Kindel from Microsoft showed off the Windows Phone 7 device to CNET and the latter shot a video of it.

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Is Apple Planing An App Store For Macs?

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Apple has changed their Mac Developer license to make it more far more affordable than before. At only $99, this new pricing it sure to get a lot of new developers into becoming licensed Mac Developers. The previous license was far too expensive for small time developers to get in on the action. So if Apple is opening the gate much wider than before, is it just because they want more Mac Developers and nothing else? Or is it part of something larger?

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Apple Sues HTC For Multiple Patent Infringements, Google Too Big To Sue?

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Apple has brought a series of patent infringement allegations against HTC, saying that the mobile manufacturing company has infringed as many as 20 patents that belong to Apple. HTC of course is not the actual target here because the patents are mostly related to UI and other software features that some HTC phones use. And by some HTC phones I mean the ones that use the Android Mobile OS.

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HootSuite Releases Apps For Android, Updates iPhone App

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HootSuite already had their own app on the iPhone App Store and now they are bringing HootSuite to Android mobile phone users. HootSuite is an extremely popular Web Client for the Twitter micro blogging service. It has features that will mostly appeal to power users who need to keep track of not only multiple accounts but also in many cases several keywords and their performance. As you might know or guess — this is one Twitter client that is heavily used by businesses and marketers.

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Google Acquires Picnik, It’s Official

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Google has acquired Picnik — the popular online photo editor that has been steadily gaining the attention of the masses. Google’s reason for this acquisition is as obvious as ever. They are slowly building up their arsenal of online services and web apps as they inch closed to their Chrome OS launch. Even without the OS, they are constantly trying out new ways to do traditional computing works via the browser.

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Twitter Engineer Talks About “Nifty” New Features, Causes Third-Party Devs To Worry

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Alex Payne, Engineer at Twitter, caused some worry third-party developers and generally teased everyone about some new features that twitter was testing out. In a tweet to his followers (the one that you can see above) he said that if normal users had the users had the same features that the Twitter employees have, they (his followers) might never go back to desktop clients again. Of course, those are not the kind of words that third-party developers for Twitter want to listen to.

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