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A number of European readers of the French-language site Mac4Ever are complaining of receiving unwanted calls after downloading and installing a specific iphone application, suggesting the application is grabbing the users' numbers via the app itself and using them to place the unsolicited calls. The article states that Mac4Ever successfully tested a line of code meant to retrieve an iphone's number, which can then be sent to remote databases.

VACATIONS might become 'staycations' spent at home this year, but digital photography is booming regardless.

MacNN has reviewed Sound Studio 3, which records and edits various audio formats. It offers QuickTime and iTunes compatibility, and supports ID3 tagging in the latter. Version 3.6 adds additional core formats, IMA 4:1 support and interface enhancements....

The 1.2 version of webOS improves calendar syncing, e-mail capabilities, and paves the way for paid apps, but doesn't restore the ability to sync media with iTunes.

Eye to the future with the newest digital cameras. The latest cameras have an amazing array of features - some useful, some not so.

No, you can't edit the list of iTunes' pre-defined genres. But you can deal with the countless custom genres that clutter your iTunes library.

Before iTunes 9, if you wanted to defer a purchase in the iTunes Store, you could save an item to your Shopping Cart. Not willing to let well enough alone, Apple dumped the entire Shopping Cart concept in iTunes 9, replacing it with a vastly inferior Wish List. How exactly is it inferior? In every possible way.

...social media. The invisibleSHIELD is a protective, high-tech patented film covering, designed for iPods, laptops, cell phones, digital cameras, PDAs, watch faces, GPS systems, gaming devices, and other items. The patent-pending invisibleSHIELD application of clear protective film covering a ...

(Telecompaper) Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Silicon Image, Sony and Toshiba have formed a Mobile High-Definition Interface Working Group. The group intends to create an industry standard for an audio/video interface to connect mobile phones or portable consumer electronics devices directly to high-definition televisions and displays. This new mobile connectivity standard, based on Silicon Image's Mobile High-Definition Link technology, will be defined, promoted and marketed by the working group as an industry standard open to anyone desiring to be an adopter and enable the development of mobile products that adhere to this new standard across a broad connectivity ecosystem. A single-cable with a low pin count interface will be able to support up to 1080p high-definition digital video and HD audio in addition to delivering power to a portable device. The working group is expected to organise a consortium of founding members who will develop a mobile connectivity technology standard speci

Google retained its rank as the top U.S. video property, with more than 10 billion videos viewed in August, according to comScore. microsoft has less chance of closing the gap in online video versus Google because, unlike search, where a handful of players rule the roost, online video boasts a long, long tail. Microsoft would have to buy several properties to approach Google's plot. - Google is dominant in search, but its plot of the online video market may have more staying power. Google retained its rank as the top U.S. digital video property, with more than 10 billion videos viewed in August, according to comScore. The research firm said 161 million U.S. Inte...