Last month when Cerulean Studios launched Trillian Astra, they also submitted Trillian for iPhone to the Apple App Store for approval. Fast forward thirty days and they are still waiting for a response from Apple.
Regardless of your political views, these seven websites can help you track the actions of your elected officials. Most of the sites included in this article can be used to perform wide ranging research and others can monitor the legislation introduced and votes cast by Members of Congress. Two of the sites also track in great detail the political contributions made to elected officials.
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TechCrunch reported that a group of venture capital and private equity firms are joining forces in an effort to acquire Skype, a software application and service that enables video and voice calls, instant messaging and file sharing.
In 2005, eBay purchased Skype, but made a huge mistake in the terms of the deal by failing to acquire ownership of the software that defines Skype. Instead, eBay licensed the software from Joltid Limited, a company owned by Skype’s founders. This mistake continues to haunt eBay, who now finds itself in a legal battle over the software licensing, which I covered earlier this month.
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Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca is the first race track to be included in the Street View feature of Google Maps. The filming for Street View took place at the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) 2008 season finale.
Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5.2. According to the release notes, this update to the internet browser addresses approximately seventy issues including four that are security related. The complete list of changes can be found here.
Firefox 3.5 has already been updated twice since its June 30th release date. It was a stable product when released and continues to pick up momentum. The Mozilla Blog announced the one billionth download of Firefox since it was originally released in November 2004.
With efforts already underway for versions 3.7 and 4.0, it is no wonder that Firefox continues to gain popularity among internet browsers.
The Google Wave product preview will be expanding beyond developers on September 30, 2009 adding another 100,000 users in addition to the developers currently using Wave. According to a recent post on the Google Wave Developer Blog, the new users will be added from people who signed up and offered to test and report bugs.