Windows 7 is going to be the main event at this month’s Professional Developers Conference, it seems that Steve Ballmer has more things prepared for the event. He will announce the Windows Cloud OS at the same conference.

The wild CEO didn’t mention any particularities about the Cloud. It seems that Windows Cloud will resemble Windows Server so we will have to wait for the actual PDC to find out more. What Ballmer confirmed is that the cloud isn’t Midori and that the Midori is going to appear in a long long time from now, probably in a distant galaxy.

Tags: microsoft, software, Steve Ballmer, Windows 7, Windows Cloud

Windows 7 is not ready but Microsoft is eager to show us how it looks like. For all those attending the Professional Developer Conference (PDC) in October, Microsoft will offer a pre-beta build of their next PC OS. If anyone gets a copy, tell us how your 7 is working out for you.

If you’re not going to make it to the PDC then you have a chance of getting the pre-beta version at the Hardware Engineering Conference in November.

Tags: Beta, microsoft, microsoft, software, Windows 7

By now you should already be aware of the official existence of the G1 handset from T-Mobile. It’s the main event of this September 23rd and we’re going to be talking about it for quite a while.

One of the features presented at today’s even was Amazon’s music store. The application will come preloaded on the G1. You will be able to search your music, buy it and download it to your G1 to listen to it later. Kind of like an iTunes store but from Amazon, and with no Genius on. (more…)

Tags: Amazon, DRM, G1, Google, microsoft, Mobile News, MP3 Players, music, Portable Devices, software, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

Palm will not give up the fight in the mobile world. It is going to have the Palm OS II ready by the end of the year which means we’re going to see new handsets in 2009 equipped with the new OS. Are we going to get totally new Palms?

The Nova Linux-based OS isn’t arriving anytime soon. Next year means sometime in the second half of 2009. That means we have a lot to wait for the OS II to actually surface. That means we’re going to play with Palm OS II only about two years later than initially announced!

Tags: Mobile News, Mobile Software, OS II, Palm, Palm, smartphone, software

Remember when we told you about T-Mobile’s future app store? Well it appears it’s almost ready. In the mean time the devPartner Community Beta is now ready for you to give it a try. This program was conceived in order to help your application get approved faster to be released to the future store.

Developers should register and follow the steps needed to be done in order to have their apps approved. The whole process is free of charge so anyone can already start creating accounts. (more…)

Tags: Android, App Store, Google, java, Mobile Games, Mobile News, Mobile Software, software, software, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

iPhone Dev Team delivers again. They managed to jailbreak iPhone firmware 2.1 for Mac users right from the first day, and just a couple of hours agoi they made available QuickPwn 2.1 for Windows users. (more…)

Tags: 3g iphone, Apple, Apple, iPod Touch, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Other Brands, QuickPwn, software, windows

Mobile banking is about to be redesigned over in Korea. The sub-committee on Financial Digitization of the Bank of Korea has decided to use the Universal Subscriber Identity Modules or USIMs at CD and ATM networks across the country. The service might be available this November although there aren’t clear instructions on how it will work. (more…)

Tags: korea, Mobile News, Mobile Software, software, software, USIM

If you need Windows XP and you would do anything to get an official copy go to Dell in the UK. Windows XP is available as an OS choice. It will cost you just £44,414 or $80,242. Go ahead and get a mortgage on your house and pay Dell for XP. Or choose a different payment plan and pay just £1,510 a month.
(more…)

Tags: Dell, Laptops, microsoft, microsoft, Portable Devices, software, Windows XP

There has been a lot of buzz going around about T-Mobile’s exclusive Android device, which is also the first Android device to hit the market.

Well, our buds over at Engadget have gotten word that the device will be officially announced on September 23rd at a T-Mobile event.

There is no saying as to what the device will actually be, but we do know that this will be a truly monumental event as it will be the first time an open-source cellphone has gone public. We will keep you updated.

Via: Engadget

Tags: Android, Cell Phones, event, Google, Other Brands, software, T-Mobile

Here she is, Apple has officially unleashed the iPhone 2.1 software, promising to fix all of those annoying bugs plaguing previous version.

The most important of the fixes listed above would have to be improved battery life for “most users”, decreased dropped calls, and the improved 3G signal display. Other than that, the update includes various bug fixes that caused iPhones running the earlier versions to crash. Let’s hope this really works.

You can head Apple’s official page to check out the updates if the above text is too hard for you to read.

Tags: 2.1, 3G, Apple, firmware, iPhone, software, Update

While it was leaked yesterday, the general public wasn’t able to get their hands on the latest version of Apple’s iTunes until today, with new features to boot.

The coolest feature by far, are the new Genius Playlists. What is a Genius Playlist you ask? Well, it’s a new feature that allows you to pick a song and then generates a playlist of similar songs. Pretty neat huh?

Some less exciting features include an all new grid view, HD TV shows, some new accessibility features for those hard of hearing, and a fancy new visualizer as you can see above.

But why listen to me? Apple has an official page up with all of the new features included in iTunes 8.

Tags: 8, Apple, Apple, iTunes, music, software

Microsoft planned to release its IE8 browser amid the popularity of Firefox, now, they have another competition - Google! Google is trying to penetrate the browser market. Yeah, that’s right, Google is releasing its very own web browser. This is not a surprise as the rumor of a browser goes way back 2004. I guess now it becomes a reality.

Google is launching a beta version of its own Web browser on Tuesday in more than 100 countries, the company announced Monday in a blog posting. The open-sourced browser will be named Chrome and is supposed to be faster, better and simpler than existing browsers.

From PC World, here are Chrome’s main feature:

–It has a tab-centric interface, with a default home page that shows snapshots of your favorite sites and new memory management techniques designed to prevent tabs from bogging down your browsing;

–It uses sandboxing to prevent malware from doing damage to your PC;

–It includes built-in anti-phishing;

–It uses an all-new JavaScript implementation designed to provide snappy performance for Web-based applications;

–It includes Gears, the Google-initiated platform that helps online apps provide offline capabilities;

–It’s open source;

–It’s based on Webkit, the same open-source browser engine that powers Apple’s Safari.

Tags: browser, Chrome, Google, Mobile News, software

On Monday, Google updated the Android SDK to version 0.9, nearing ever closer to the final 1.0 version.  Android 0.9 includes several changes:

Removal of the Bluetooth API
Removal of the GTalkService protocol
New Home Screen
Alarm Clock, Calculator, Camera, Music player, Picture viewer, and messaging

Keep in mind, this still isn’t the final version of the SDK so when phones running Android finally come out, code produced using the 0.9 SDK might not be recognized by the 1.0 OS.

However, Android developer Dan Morril posted on his blog that the platform is now pretty stable and no major changes are expected when 1.0 comes out.

Developers interested in the Android platform can download the new SDK here.

Tags: 0.9, Android, Android SDK, Cell Phones, Google, Google, software