Video: World Tech Update In this week’s show: hackers descend on New York City, a new service sends you directly to voicemail, Microsoft’s online services head departs, NTT DoCoMo shows off Super 3G, augmented reality mixes computers with the real world, Microsoft announces plans to make your own Xbox games, WiMAX is set to take off and a robotic device helps paralyzed people walk again.
Microsoft looks to mimic Apple success, says Ballmer In an e-mail to Microsoft employees, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested the company would follow Apple’s lead to provide a more complete experience to customers.
Review: OmniFocus for iPhone The Omni Group’s OmniFocus is a complex to-do application for the Mac, and it’s equally complex in iPhone form. While overkill for some, users who like the Getting Things Done workflow philosophy or who already use the desktop version will like OmniFocus on the iPhone.
Not so fast, 3G Apple says the iPhone 3G is twice as fast as its predecessor, but our tests show that the amount of speed increase depends greatly on your location.
Cro-Mag Rally for iPhone While the novelty of this racing game can wear off quickly, Cro-Mag Rally is a fine game for the iPhone and iPod touch that really demonstrates what this early generation of action games can do on the platform.
Review: SecuriKey Professional Edition 2.1 SecuriKey offers a quick and easy way for mobile users to keep data on their Mac away from prying eyes. While the setup of additional users on a system can be confusing, SecuriKey just works.
Review: Final Cut Server 1.1 Final Cut Server is a client-server-based workflow tool that can potentially help you in three ways: in cataloging and searching assets, especially video-based assets; with version control through check-in and check-out capabilities and approval; and with automation capabilities to convert, copy, and execute scripts.
Lostify 0.7 Lostify gives you complete control over tagging your MPEG-4 files with data such as episode name, episode number, series title, season number, and file kind.
Review: MobileMe 1.0 MobileMe is a rebranded .Mac, but the service offers one stellar feature that may convince new people to subscribe. Some information can now be synchronized among devices as it changes.
Researcher warns of unpatched iPhone bugs A security research warns that the iPhone’s e-mail and browser apps can be used by phisers to users into visiting malicious sites, according to Computerworld.
The Mac keeps driving Apple All people seem to talk about these days is the iPhone, but as Monday’s quarterly earnings announcement proved, the Mac is still very central to Apple’s business.
The case of the massive iDisk archive Have you lost a significant amount of storage on your hard drive? If you're a .Mac/MobileMe subscriber, I know the reason why.
‘SkyTunes’ pits Sky against Apple’s iTunes U.K.-based Sky plans to take on iTunes with a subscription-based music service. Music label Universal has already signed on with Sky.
Apple's app update mechanism needs an update Now that there are updates rolling out for many App Store programs, here's hoping Apple fixes the way updates work on the iPhone and in iTunes.
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