Cody Taylor

Analysis carried out by Generator Research shows that Apple’s embryonic mobile business could knock Nokia from the top spot in the smartphone market, and transform the mobile services market.

After suffering through virtual beer drinking, boobs and farts, Apple’s iPhone gets a new unique entertainment application dubbed iSteam. It turns your device into a foggy glass surface, perfectly mimicking a mirror after a hot shower. It will have earned a bunch of 22-year old kids 0,000 in one month as well.

Over the past 24 hours, Apple has begun to approve 3rd party web browsing applications for the iPhone. A number of new web browsing apps have suddenly appeared with original submission dates ranging as far back as October.

The Mac clone maker being sued by Apple Inc. because it installs Mac OS X on generic Intel-based systems said it bought copies of the operating system from Apple which can’t tell it what to do with legit copies, court documents show

An anonymous reader writes “New York magazine has a story about some of the flashy new ideas that are coming out of the labs of the New York Times. The piece prompted Peter Wayner to dig up some of the old Java applets he wrote to explore whether more promiscuity really stops AIDS and whether baseball can do anything to speed up the games. He notes that these took a great deal of work to produce and it’s not possible to do them on a daily basis. Furthermore, they’re cranky and fragile, perhaps thanks to Java. Are cool, interactive features the future of journalism on the web? Or will simple ASCII text continue to be the most efficient way for us to mingle our thoughts, especially when ASCII text won’t generate a classloading error?”

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While Microsoft has basic Windows Live counterparts to all iLife applications, it didn’t have an application to compete with GarageBand that lets users easily record a song and write music. A new Microsoft Research project unveiled at the CES 2009 finally completes the missing musical link – Songsmith.

When reports of security issues in Apple’s Safari browser come over the transom, they get our attention. When they’re exploitable in both the Mac and Windows versions of Safari, they get our full and undivided attention. When the person reporting them is Brian Mastenbrook (credited with discovering multiple previous vulnerabilities in Mac OS X)…