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According to AppleInsider, Apple is going to enable proper multi-tasking on the iPhone OS 4.0. They have this from sources that have a proven track record for Apple Intelligence. Hence, they are putting a lot of emphasis on this rumor. It’s not that multi-tasking does not exist on the iPhone, it does. But the 4.0 update will finally allow third apps to simultaneously — something that has been sorely missing from the iPhone all this time.

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Of course, this is not much to get excited over, just that Apple has released a new beta version of the iPad SDK and there are a few significant omissions. And as you might know — omissions are extremely important when it comes to causing rumors and telling us things without telling us.

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As we all know very well by now — Windows Mobile phones are extremely good for running other OS’ that the phones were never meant to run. After a lot of hacks with Android, hackers have turned to another Linux distro — Ubuntu.

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The GDC (Games Developer Conference) is an extremely important conference for game developers everywhere. It has a long-ish history of holding these conferences for covering every possible aspect of game development for all conceivable platforms. They usually hold two days of ‘Summits’ before the main set of keynote addresses and other things start happening. Within those summits, there is the GDC Mobile summit which discusses every mobile platform there is. This included the iPhone up until the last time. But this year they have dedicated an entire summit to the iPhone, making it clear that the platform is now a major mobile gaming platform.

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HTC’s Legend has got to be the most coveted Android phone ever since it was first shown off at the MWC 2010 event. It’s premium aluminum unibody build, the rich AMOLED display, the premium finish — everything makes you want it, bad. Those lusting after it in the US will have to wait a while loger before they get any specific dates but their UK counterparts have already received their release date — 23rd March.

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Here’s another example of malware slipping into tightly controlled places — an HTC Magic unit sold by Vodafone was found to be infected with really serious malware. This was discovered after the user plugged the phone into her PC and her Panda Cloud AV went off, detecting multiple instances of active malware on the device. The story takes a turns for the ‘intriguing’ when it is revealed that the buyer/user in question is actually a Panda Cloud Employee.

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This has already happened once before but back then the build was hardly final and it wasn’t available for a full download. This time, a near complete build of the Android 2.1 OS for the Droid Eris seems to be up for grabs courtesy of the fine folks at XDA developers. I say near complete because if it were complete, we would get it officially. However, My guess is that they will push it within this month.

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Okay, so I am only joking about the end part (or am I?) but the real robots part is, well — real! There’s a post on FrAndroid that shows a couple of Google engineers making real robots that have Android phones as their brains! Skynet had T-1, we have the G-1 to be scared of. Thankfully, this don’t do much. Yet.

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Oh Nokia, what will you do next? You hurriedly built a Maemo 5 handset, you pitched against all other next-generation smarpthones and then you quickly abandoned ship and joined up with Intel to create franken OS MeeGo. Now, now that you are all over with that at MWC, you are trying to tease us into expecting C-series phones. And with what subtlety.

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Speaking at the latest Engadget show, Aaron Woodman of Microsoft said that even though Windows Phone 7 Series does not support Macs at this time there are discussion going on internally regarding the issue. There are of course a lot of complications about things will be done if Mac support does come into play. And the problems begin with the Zune desktop application.

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