Happy October, everyone! Wait, why aren’t you smiling? Lack of push notifications got you down? Me too. When Scott Forstall first announced these push notifications in June, I was all giddy inside. It was an inventive way to allow applications to continue their purpose while not running, without consuming those ever important system resources. To more »

At only $199, is it more cost effective to buy an iPhone and just use it as an iPod as opposed to actually buying the more expensive iPod touch or classic? The latest iPhone has brought a significant price reduction to the iPhone, and the smartphone market. As an iPod touch owner, I’m pretty annoyed more »

Just as iPhone developers thought they could never have an app that ran in the background, Apple has announced a new form of background notifications system for the iPhone. For example: You’re running an instant messaging application—usually when you leave the app, it would close and disconnect you from the IM servers. With this new more »

.Mac” width=”212″ height=”205″ align =”right”/>The rumors have been flying about the upcoming changes to Apple’s .Mac service. Will .Mac service be changed to MobileMe? What about .Mac will it redirect to a new domain?

Mac.Rumors has reported that .Me is registered to the MarkMonitor domain service. For those who don’t know MarkMonitor is a global leader in enterprise brand protection. It’s a service that Apple, along with over half of Fortune 100 companies depend on. Earlier this year MarkMonitor purchased the following domains on behalf of Apple: MacBookAir.net, MacBookAir.org, MacBookAir.us, MacBookAir.info, MacBookAir.biz. If you type in .Me com now it will redirect you to Snappville.com, which is a social networking website that used to be called to .Me com. It changed its name in December 2007.

With all the WDDC rumors flying around Worldwide Developers Conference 2008, it has become tough to keep track of them all. Here is a list of recent rumors, and details on their credibility.

1. 3G iPhone – Is the Pope Catholic? I think that it is safe to say that this is the only rumor that is definitely going to become a reality. Now the only question is what it will look like and what any changes to the OS will be. Personally, I would love the iPhone to look something like this. Two of the biggest proofs behind this rumor are a lack of iPhones (“Currently unavailable”) on the Apple website and the fact that AT&T are not allowing their employees to take vacations for a period of time this summer, supposedly around the 3G iPhone launch. Also pointing to 3G are supposedly leaked screenshots of the 3G iPhone, strange new terms on shipping manifests, dates supposedly being announced, strange looking icons buried deep within the iPhone SDK, and announcements coming straight from the horse’s mouth, or in this case, the mouth of the Telefónica Europe’s CEO.

Read on for 4 more top rumors…

Fueled by the recent snowballing of Mac sales and interest in the iPhone’s mobile WiFi platform, this year’s Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) has sold out for the first time in history. The exact number of spaces that were available was not put out by Apple, but soon after making the “sold out” announcement, more »