iPhone OS 3.0 beta 5 now available

Apple just dropped iPhone OS 3.0 beta 5, just over one week after its last revision and about half the time they've put between the previous updates. You know the drill by now, we don't know yet what the update entails, but we'll let you know when we do. Oh, and just like last time, it appears iTunes 8.2 is required.

Video of the Week!

Controlling a Radio Control Helicopter with an iPhone

What can you possibly do with an iPhone? Play games, surf the internet, listen to music, take photos and of course make phone calls. But it is just amazing to see what Joshua Ziering has used iPhone for. He took an iPhone, a radio-controlled helicopter, a Wi-Fi router and mixed it up with the iPhone’s accelerometer and touch interface to built a R/C helicopter controller. He made a custom software for “flight interface” on the iPhone. Watch the video below to see the iPhone controlled R/C helicopter in action.

Looks like Microsoft decided to pull the trigger just a hair early on this one, Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 is now available to the public at large

Looks like Microsoft decided to pull the trigger just a hair early on this one. Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 is now available to the public at large. If you haven't gotten your hands on it, now's your chance to try it out well into 2010. What are you still reading this for? Hit up the read link to download.

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Apple / Google relationship being investigated for antitrust violations

The relationship between Apple and Google has always been pretty cozy -- Mac OS X and the iPhone tie into a variety of Google services, Google's developed rule-breaking iPhone apps, we've heard endless whispers of Apple meddling in the development of the G1, and on and on. In fact, the relationship between the two companies is so tight they actually share board members: Google CEO Eric Schmidt and former Genentech CEO Arthur Levinson take meetings in both Cupertino and Mountain View. That's apparently raised some hackles at the Federal Trade Commission, which has reportedly informed both companies they're being investigated for violating a rarely-enforced section of the Clayton Antitrust Act prohibiting "interlocking directorates" when it reduces competition. That sounds like someone at the FTC just noticed that Apple makes the iPhone and Google's responsible for Android, but nothing's set in stone yet -- and we've got a feeling Android's open-source codebase could throw a monkey wrench into an already-complex legal analysis. We'll obviously be tracking this one closely, keep an eye out.

Videos of the Week!

Susan Boyle from Britain's Got Talent – Interview



George Sampson (Winner of Britain's Got Talent: 2008) Singing in the Rain - Music Video



Like a Boss – SNL