| China Blocks iTunes Over “Songs Of Tibet” Album | \ ");document.write("August 25th, 2008 09:31 | \ ");document.write("
| Anyone in China wishing to download some music through iTunes was greatly disappointed earlier this week when the Apple’s iTunes Music Store locked up, banning people from logging into the service. \ ");document.write(" \ ");document.write("Despite the Olympics, China has blocked access to Apple, Inc.’s iTunes Store because customers in China fear the online store has been blocked after a pro-Tibet album – “Songs of Tibet,” which includes a message from the Dalai Lama featured on the site became a hit. | \
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| IBM Software Coming For Apple\'s iPhone, iPod Touch | \ ");document.write("August 13th, 2008 22:58 | \ ");document.write("
| E-mail software from IBM Corp. will be available on Apple Inc. iPhones and iPod Touch devices under a new partnership that brings together two big rivals of Microsoft Corp. IBM plans a formal announcement of the Lotus Notes e-mail package for Apple\'s portable devices at its Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Fla., next week. The software, which requires use of IBM\'s Domino e-mail server program, will be free for users who already have a Lotus Web-access license and start at per year for new users. IBM also plans to release Lotus Notes and the free Lotus Symphony \"productivity\" package which includes documents, spreadsheets and other Microsoft Office-like software for Apple\'s Macintosh computers. \ ");document.write(" | \
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| Mozilla Unveils Aurora Concept Browser | \ ");document.write("August 6th, 2008 09:21 | \ ");document.write("
| Barence writes \ ");document.write("\"Mozilla has unveiled a spectacular new concept browser, dubbed Aurora. The bleeding-edge browser is part of a new Mozilla Labs initiative, in which the open-source foundation is encouraging people to contribute ideas and designs for the browser of the future. The Aurora browser demonstration shows a highly advanced way of collaborating data gathered on the web, and represents a spectacular introduction to the new Mozilla Labs, which much like Google Labs looks to become a home for offbeat projects which would otherwise probably never see the light of day. More details, and a video demonstration, are on the Mozilla Labs site.\" slashdot | \
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| IBM Pushing Microsoft-Free Desktops | \ ");document.write("August 5th, 2008 23:31 | \ ");document.write("
| walterbyrd and other readers are sending along the news that IBM is partnering worldwide with Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell, and Red Hat to offer Windows-free desktop PCs pre-loaded with Lotus software and ready for customizing by local ISVs for particular markets. The head of IBM\'s Lotus division is quoted: \"The slow adoption of Vista among businesses and budget-conscious CIOs, coupled with the proven success of a new type of Microsoft-free PC in every region, provides an extraordinary window of opportunity for Linux.\" One example of the cooperation: \ ");document.write("\"Canonical, which sells subscription support for Ubuntu, a Linux operating system that scores high marks on usability and \'the cool factor,\' will re-distribute Lotus Symphony via their repositories. Symphony 1.1 will be available through the Ubuntu repositories by the end of August.\" | \
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| iPhone Tethering App Released, Killed In 2 Hours | \ ");document.write("August 2nd, 2008 10:27 | \ ");document.write("
| \"The iPhone App Store released an application called NetShare that allowed the iPhone to tether a laptop to the internet. It was priced at a one time fee. After being available for approximately 2 hours, the application has disappeared from the apps store. What exactly are AT&T/Apple trying to accomplish here?\" They are trying to prove what is wrong with DRM, and demonstrate why hackers want to jailbreak the iPhone. (slashdot) App releases now available - update | \
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