News for Thursday, 14 August 2008

In order to compete with the new iPhone/AppStore ecosystem launched by Apple, the RIM company, well known for being behind the Blackberry, launched in May a developer-dedicated fond aiming to promote software development for its mobile handhelds.
After facing problem in the setup phase, the 150 million USD fond is now launched. It indicates that RIM is not considering Apple and its iPhone as a gadget, and is ready to fight to maintain its leading position. Developers could get from 2 to 5 million USD for application development, a huge amount of money for application development...

Most likely to answer criticisms regarding the problem linked to the position of the SATA port on the original Velociraptor, Western Digital announced a new model featuring and adaptor which will fit in all SATA HD bay.

We will now be able to install them in the Mac Pro without any problem. The reference of this Velociraptor will be WD3000HLFS and should be available in a near future.

We just learned from reliable sources that the French Bank Credit Agricole has placed an order for an unknown number of 16GB iPhone black models. They will be used by high management members of the bank.
This is not really surprising, as the same bank has already developed a iPhone-optimized website and even made it public via an communication campaign. For those interested, you can visit the site at the following address: http://www.credit-agricole.fr/modules/iphone/