Apple’s event today in San Francisco was a success. They listed the 8 GB/32 GB/64 GB iPods as $199/$299/$399 respectively. These are the prices of the old, 2nd generation iPod touches. The new ones are yet unannounced. This has not stopped the people from introducing some changes in its own store. The first point to keep in mind is regarding the cost of different-iPod...

These days, a person pays real money for digital products in all types of online applications varying from Facebook applications to multi-player online games. The first thing they take is virtual money. Other items include virtual gifts and weapons for social networking. Free-to-play games account for half of all virtual goods transactions. Free-to-play games are those...

Novell technology allows software developers to use .Net and C# instead of C or Objective-C to design applications for Apple’s handheld. Novell will provide a kit for program developers to create Apple iPhone and iPod Touch business applications using Microsoft’s .Net Framework. Novell’s MonoTouch 1.0 is a commercial software development kit. It will...

The online payments startup Piryx reported that they were aimed for a Distributed Denial of Service charge on September 11. It is an Austin-based company. They say that they were targeted because they hosted a fundraising campaign for Joe Wilson. Joe is a politician, who made headlines last week by his shouting on Obama, “You Lie” during his health care reform speech. Piryx...

Though it is two weeks early, many US based iPhone users reported that their phones have the ability to send and receive MMS messages now. MMS messages include videos and images. The obstacle was AT&T, with ambiguities in the past that its network could manage the load. It is surprising that AT&T appears to have brought the MMS feature to the iPhone sooner than...

Zynga, the social-game startup will probably go into a lot of legal fights. As they settle down their dealings with the Playdom you-stole-our-playbook fight, we almost confirmed that they filed an unusual lawsuit, one in which where they were playing defense. During last February, Mob Wars creator David Maestri accused Zynga for copyright violation. Mafia Wars is a...

How do we usually spend time when you are sitting on an endless torrent of finely-focused content and a few million bucks in venture capital? We will go mobile. This is what Glamour Media, the distributed media network behind the women’s lifestyle website Glam.com and its male-oriented counterpart Brash.com is planning to do. It is one among the fastest growing...

Sprint has announced today by the newsletter that you can call any cell phone provider for unlimited. Unlike other providers like AT&T, Verizon, T-mobile they are giving out unlimited calls to all cell phone numbers. Other providers like T-mobile and verizon give out certain nombers for free to call anytime regardless of land phone or cell phone or any provider. Sprint...

Opera software’s new browser, Opera 10 got released one week ago. With in a short time, it has got many favorable reviews. Opera has announced that their revamped desktop browser is in use by millions of users. Opera has been downloaded more than ten million times and this is a record achievement for the parent company. The latest browser was well received breaking...