Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

Apple CEO Steve Jobs will assist in an upcoming biography, according to “The New York Times” (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/technology/companies/16apple.html). The biography will be written by Walter Issacson, a former managing editor of “TIME” magazine.

Isaacson is currently the CEO and president of the Aspen Institute, a nonprofit education and policy studies organization based in Washington. He’s penned two other biographies, “Einstein: His Life and Universe” and “Benjamin Franklin: An American Life.”

Appliya (http://www.appliya-studio.com) has announced an upgraded version of their online iPhone app publication tool, the iPhoneAppBuilder.

It’s a web-based system that allows you to make an iPhone app for free utilizing images from your Flickr account or straight from your computer. For a limited time, all users can create their own app for free.

Also, customers that submit an app will be automatically entered into a contest running from Feb. 22 to March 22. The owner of the top-selling iPhoneAppBuilder app in that time frame will win US$1,000.

Exacq Technologies (http://www.exacq.com) has released version 4 of its exacqVision video management system software and version 2.0 of the exacqVision Webserver video management(VSM).

ExacqVision 4.0 adds a new mapping feature and an Enterprise Server Option. Mapping is now available on all exacqVision systems. Users can add maps of geographic locations, entire facilities, rooms and more by uploading an image (e.g. JPEG, bitmap, gif) and then associating cameras with it by utilizing the icons.

Nuance Communications has acquired MacSpeech, a provider of speech recognition solutions for Macs. The agreement will allow Nuance to extend the Dragon NaturallySpeaking family of products to the growing community of Mac users as a native Mac application, according to Peter Mahoney, senior vice president and general manager for Dragon, Nuance Communications.