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According to reports, Apple has just purchased VocalIQ which is a startup situated in the United Kingdom. The startup specializes in assistant software that could possibly help make iPhone users' collaborations with the virtual assistant Siri more natural.

Today boygeniusreport post another news iPhone 4 antenna problems issue this time conversation Email between Steve Jobs and Apple engineer Tom.boygeniusreport say We have verified the email headers and information, and believe this exchange to be 100% legitimate.Apple products, an Apple engineer, Steve Jobs, and reported problems with the iPhone 4's antenna placement.BGR

Technology » iPhone4 first complaints... By Paolo Ruffino | June 27, 2010 0diggsdigg iPhone4 is in the stores and so are the complaints for some flaws. The biggest one is related to the antenna, placed on the left. If you are left handed and hold the iPhone as a left handed, then the antenna can't get the signal... Some early users (see video) claim this is due to a software problem. Another issue is related to scratches. Apparently the new iPhone scratches very easily. On YouTube and forums there are reviews and unboxing videos, and of course a lot of them are reporting minor or major issues in the new iPhone4.

According to NewTeeVee the rental program Apple is promoting would work just like existing movie rentals: users would have 30 days to start watching the show, and would then need to finish within 24 hours of starting playback. NewTeeVee report Apple is trying to get TV programmers to let it rent individual TV shows for 99 cents each, as opposed to the $1.99 it receives for sales of standard-definition episodes and the $2.99 it gets for selling HD episodes. The TV rental program would work in much the same way that movie rentals now work through iTunes; once an episode is purchased, the consumer will have 30 days to start watching the video. And once started, the TV rental will be available for 24 hours before it expires.

Analyst Keith Bachman with BMO Capital Markets this week issued a note to investors in which he said Apple will finally update its MacBook Air line next month. According to the Barron's reports. Analyst Keith Bachman sees the company will launch MacBook Air, iPods or iPod touch expecting two models. Bachman doesn't offer too many details but does foresee a price droptwo new units in September.

John Gruber of Daring Fireball is saying that a CDMA version of the iPhone is currently undergoing engineering tests and could be out as soon as January. Verizon iPhone anyone?

It appears that iOS 4.1 isn't all fun and games for some iPhone owners. Are you experiencing any bugs with the update?

The weekend has come and gone and still, iPhone owners are complaining about a few issues affecting their device after installing iOS 4.1, the main issue being with USB playback. Anyone else having problems?

"Apple's reputation is on the line yet again as some reports have disclosed that Apple knew back in 2009 about the iPhone 4 reception problems, but did not take any measures to eliminate it. Since the launch of iPhone 4, numerous customers, especially those who are based in US have been complaining about the bad reception on their iPhone 4."

There have been many reports in the media that mobile phones cause cancer as harmful radiation emitted by them are seriously dangerous for people using these units. I wonder whether the smart phone manufacturers are bringing out anything to fight cancer caused by radiation from these devices, but yes, Apple has made its move to the fight against this cancer.

The report also reveals a shift in thinking by parents and educators who are now beginning to accept the role of mobile devices as instructional tools, in part because they are active users of mobile devices in their own personal lives. In some cases, educators have embraced mobile devices as a catalyst for making learning a more student directed experience. At Jamestown Elementary School in Virginia, for example, students use mobile devices to

iPhone apps for K-12 sounds like early Apple almost 30 years ago!

Boutique analyst firm Freeform Dynamics took a run at standardizing on Macs but the switch was not worthwhile. They're now back in the Windows fold. Their report starts by posing a series of questions about business benefit. They found that when pressed, business users were hard put to come up with anything other than woolly answers. So what usually happens when an average business user switches to Mac?

In Goldman Sachs' Communacopia XVII conference, AT&T's chief technical officer John Donovan stated that iPhone 3G users have used much less data on the network than expected.

There are lots of people reporting on the spotty iPhone 3G reception issues and according to Barron's it looks like the BlackBerry Bold may be experiencing those same 3G reception issues. The Bold is available only in a couple countries at the moment and isn't yet available here in the U.S. so there is the possibility that the Bold's software will be updated prior to the release.

According to New York Times, Google is close to launch new interactive smart phone by teaming up with T-mobile and HTC. It will come with features like touch screen, slide-out and five row keyword, said in the New York Times report.

IPhone 3G network performance issues aren't isolated to the United States, and the time has come to collect global data. IPhone 3G owners from around the world: Wired.com needs your help. We've created an interactive ZeeMap, and we'd like you to report your iPhone 3G's 3G and EDGE download and upload speeds. We promise it's easy, and assuming your connections aren't grindingly slow, this should only take you about five minutes.

Apple Inc.'s operating system market share slipped last month as Microsoft Corp.'s Windows halted its slide for only the fourth time in the past 12 months, a research company reported. In July, Apple's Mac OS X powered 7.76% of the computers that accessed the 40,000 sites Net Applications monitors for its clients, the company said Friday. The Mac's share of the OS market was down 0.18 percentage points from June's 7.94% and was lower than May's 7.83%. Windows, meanwhile, posted a small gain in overall share, climbing 0.13 percentage points from June's 90.89% to end July with 91.02%

Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X market share has passed the 8% mark for the first time, a research company reported today. In September, Apple's operating system ran on 8.2% of the computers that accessed the 40,000 sites monitored by Net Applications for clients, the company's data showed. The Mac's share of the operating system market was up over August's by nearly four-tenths of a percentage point, the biggest one-month gain since May. Apple tends to post significant increases in September, according to Net Applications. Last year, for example, Mac OS X climbed by 0.45 points that month

Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) 3 is the latest release of Apple's desktop management software, enabling administrators to distribute software, manage assets, and remotely administer Mac OS X systems via a network. ARD 3 takes advantage of innovative technologies in Mac OS X Tiger such as Automator. Automator is built on the concept of actions - discrete tasks such as opening a file, cropping an image, or sending a message. With Automator users can string together a series of actions into a single Automator workflow document. Much like a script, a workflow document can be executed, triggering each action and passing any data generated by the action to the next action in the workflow. Using the Automator actions installed with ARD and custom actions you create, you can develop workflows to automate repetitive system administration tasks. For example, workflows can distribute software, create detailed software and hardware reports, and remotely configure systems using ARD.