On his website, Volker Weber brings up the issue of iPod equipment not sanctioned by Apple. It seems people won’t be able to charge their iPhone 3G on such devices.

Sometrics (http://www.sometrics.com) and appssavvy (http://www.appssavvy.com) announced a partnership that will increase revenue for developers while helping advertisers build their brands and pinpoint their audiences within the social web.

By pairing appssavvy’s direct sales team with Sometrics’ social intelligence the two companies are helping developers share their audience demographic information.

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Free-software developer, Xacti, implements full Mozilla Firefox 3 compatibility into Web Security Guard 4.5.5.

Identity theft is continually on the rise. Spyware has become cyberthieves’ method of choice for stealing personal and sensitive information. More and more people are connecting to the internet every day, yet most Internet users remain oblivious to how and why they should protect their computer and keep their personal information safe.

Power Integrations has announced a new, ultra-low-profile package for its TOPSwitch-HX family of AC-DC power conversion ICs. The small size combined with efficiency and high operating frequency of TOPSwitch-HX enables slim, compact, and lightweight power supplies from 20 to 100 watts. Applications include adapters for notebook computers and power supplies for LCD monitors and flat-panel TVs where slim form factor and high efficiency have become important design elements.

They claim to have jointly developed a single-layer cell (SLC) NAND flash device that provides a “five-fold increase” in data write/erase cycles over standard SLC flash. Though numbers aren’t provided that puts the technology at a healthy 50,000 read/write lifespan.

According to Samsung, the new flash memory is expected to deliver the highest endurance ever offered in high availability, mission-critical computing. The chip will also allow a 100x increase over conventional hard disk drives in the number of IOPS per watt.

The public beta of Opera Mobile 9.5 is now available for Windows Mobile Classic/Professional (Pocket PC) devices. There are new features such as pan and zoom, a new UI, improved performance, improved standards support, AJAX support, tabbed browsing, offline browsing, auto-complete, a password manager, and Opera Dragonfly.

Toronto based Spreed Inc. released their first version of Spreed:News, an application that enhances the way people read news on mobile phones. Spreed’s research has been used to create a simple and user friendly interface for consuming text-based content. Their proprietary reader increases reading speed and reduces problems with the restrictive form found on mobile devices.

The product will be launched on the Apple iPhone and the company will be releasing a version for the RIM Blackberry in the near future.

Take a perfectly good Apps Store entry. It won’t work unless it’s front-and-center on your phone. That is, AIM won’t run in the background on your iPhone, meaning you can’t launch it and then go over and check your e-mail, browse the Web, or listen to music.

The reasoning behind this restriction is so the iPhone doesn’t slow to a crawl after the user has launched a lot of apps.