Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
“It’s About Time Products” has announced mini apps — an iPad application which allows you to access and utilize multiple “mini apps” with different, customizable types of information. It will be available soon at a special launch price of $0.99.
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Music industry sources told “CNET” (http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20001480-261.html) this week Apple has informed label managers that a streaming music service is unlikely to be ready before the third quarter.
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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told clients he thinks there’s a 70% chance that Apple will develop its own search engine within five years.
“We believe the company needs to develop its own search technology to protect the data generated on the iPhone,” he writes. “We believe Apple could utilize data unavailable from ,Google, data generated by the company’s App Store, to create a mobile centric search engine.”
Read MoreOneSpring has released an updated version of the visualization templates for Apple-branded mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPod touch and, now, the iPad. It offers a way to define software projects from mainframes to web sites to mobile applications.
Read MoreApple has posted released AirPort Base Station Update 2010-001, which brings the Airport Utility to version 5.5.1. The update — which requires Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later — addresses two bugs and includes a security fix.
The security patch addresses an issue that would have allowed an unauthorized user to connect to an otherwise restricted network. You can obtain the update via the Software Updates component of Mac OS X’s Systems Preferences app.
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