Every week I will be bringing you what I think are the week’s biggest stories and articles. Let’s get started, after the break!

Who will buy a 2G iPhone?

Rumors are circulating that Apple will announce a $99 iPhone sans the 3G. I think this is good since most users don’t know the difference between 2G and 3G. 

Where do you sync?

There are many ways to sync your devices these days; your desk, the cloud, Web, etc. What is the best way? Rene takes a look at this in his most recent article!

Streaming iTunes to your iPhone rumor

Well, this would be rather sweet should Apple decide to do something like this, but I think it would require a lot of hardware on Apple’s end, and considering as how they can’t do email effectively, I put this one to rest.

20,000 apps in 7 months. Wow. 

If you were the competition, your jaw should be hitting the floor right about now. At this rate, it will be impossible for anyone to catchup with Apple. But then again, I am not sure of the competition needs as many fart apps. I was amazed one of my friends downloaded one the other day. Armageddon is upon us.

Push notification service delayed?

Well, obviously it is, it was supposed to come out in September 2008 if memory serves. However it looks like Apple might be waiting for their new Snow Leopard OS to hit the server market before unleashing thousands of notifications to iPhone users…

iPhone Blog Live! Podcast!

We talk Google and do a live Jailbreak during the podcast. I was dropped due to a power outage, but Rene and Dieter trucked on without me…

How can you find your car with your iPhone?

Brian attempts to answer this age-old question in his recent how-to article. Purple pins to the rescue!

Leaked iPhone backing?

Could this be? I posted on the 3G rumor, and it wound up to be true… oh yeah, April 4th 2008, I called it.

Android gets Tel-Nav GPS, where is iPhone’s?

Sure this can’t be that hard to make. My bet is there is some heavy, heavy negotiations coming. I hope it’s free, because if there is a fee involved, I am not signing up.

Google adds optimized spreadsheet functionality to Google Docs

This is a step in the right direction! You can now edit rows, sort and filter in Google Spreadsheets on the iPhone. Now, about that document part…

iPhone owns 51% of mobile market…

Oh yeah. Didn’t we already know this? I am still amazed that there is essentially one phone on one carrier in the US… imagine if it was on all carriers… ah, to dream.

This is a story by the iPhone Blog. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.

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Intellectual Property Minister David Lammy has responded to criticism from the music industry, following a controversial interview where he likened illegally downloading music to stealing a bar of soap from a hotel room.

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Congratulations to Darkecho, who wins a Zune 16 GB player in our 2009 Zune Guide contest!

This is the first of two 16gb flash players that we’re giving away. For details on how to enter, download our free 2009 Zune Guide, and enter here to win. Good luck!

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Filed under: Internet Tools, iPhone, iPod touch

A while back we noted that Google had optimized the Google Docs services for viewing on the iPhone (and other mobile devices). It's taken a while, but now it's been announced that some basic editing is possible from the iPhone as well.

The interface is a little clunky: you basically have to hit an edit link to adjust any given row of a spreadsheet and scroll to the right to change values for the columns, each within a separate form field. There's no easy way, for instance, to scroll down a column changing the values for each row. Nonetheless, it is now possible to make changes to a spreadsheet, as well as alter the sorting and filtering options.

Even though the implementation is imperfect, I'm happy to see mobile editing in Google Docs spreadsheets and I've already begun to make use of it. We can only hope they'll figure out how to make it a bit more streamlined in the future.

[Via jkOnTheRun & Download Squad]

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The German music industry magazine "Der Musikmarkt" ran a colum with an interview with me, last week. Here is the PDF (in German language). I am addressing the need for the industry to generate new revenue streams that are not based on COPY but on ACCESS. If you speak German...enjoy:  Download Leonhard_072009

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The side project of Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner, the Furs couch his indie-man's urgency in a starker sonic template. Implosive machine beats are introduced to piercing synths, and by all accounts they agree to disagree. The dirges may end up closer in spirit to Modest Mouse than Boeckner'...

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     MUSIC NEWS - MySpace Music is offering up an exclusive free download of a brand new version of Dashboard Confessional's latest song Even Now.  As a Valentine's Day gift, you can listen to and download the love ballad for free from Dashboard Confessional's official MySpace Music page. The song will be available for download free through Valentine's Day, 2/14/09 and is DRM free.  

Led by singer-songwriter Chris Carrabba, Dashboard Confessional began in 2000 as a vehicle for his intimately personal acoustic-based songs. He recorded his first album, Swiss Army Romance, that same year, and followed it with his sophomore album, the Gold-selling The Place You Have Come to Fear The Most, in 2001. With three additional musicians joining Carrabba in 2002, Dashboard Confessional became a full band. A hugely popular appearance on MTV's Unplugged and the release of their third album, the Platinum-selling A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar (buy here) , cemented their stature as one of America's most popular bands.  The band reached further heights with the 2006 release of Dusk and Summer (buy cd here) which contained the Top 40 hit "Stolen" and earned Dashboard Confessional their third straight gold record.

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Filed under: Software, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

With apologies to Steve Jobs, who pretty much implied reading was dead, there are more and more applications coming to the iPhone/iPod touch to allow people to do just that -- read books.

Today, Traveling Classics has released several public domain titles that you download as applications. A voice reads the book to you while the text stays in sync.

The books are narrated by volunteer readers from the Librivox Project, who record the complete text and release their narration into the public domain. It is a bit like open source for books.

Among the titles are: (click on them for their App Store links)

* Treasure Island
* Art of War
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
* The Tell-Tale Heart
* The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
* The Gospel of John
* Pride and Prejudice

All the books are US $0.99 until February 20th, then they are all $1.99.The Gospel of John is free. I tried two of the books, The Art of War, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Both presentations sounded professional. The text did scroll along with the spoken words. You could exit the book, and when re-starting you are given the option to resume where you left off. That worked well. Audio quality was quite good on headphones, and clear enough through the iPhone speaker, but I don't think that is the preferred way to listen.

These books compare with other Audio Books available from the App Store, and are certainly cheaper than the same titles from Audibile.com, the iTunes Store or Amazon. On the other hand, those titles from other sources can be played back through a car audio system with an iPod adapter, or burned to a CD, where with the self contained books from Traveling Classics, you'd have to use the headphone jack to get access to the sound. Also, you can get current books from Audibile.com, but the Traveling Classics are just that -- Classics in the public domain.

There are other versions of almost all these books. There is, for example, a free version of The Art of War on the iTunes store, but it is text only, no narrator.

The Traveling Classics are a nice variation of the standard audio book that people started buying on cassettes years ago, then on CD, and now by downloading them from the Internet. This latest option will appeal to some, but many readers will stick with something they can download and use with other media players.

For those of us who like books, despite what Steve Jobs thinks about the market for them, having more to read, and more ways to read, can only be a good thing.

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It may be no co-incidence that Sony Music Entertainment has apparently become the first major label to re-sign with YouTube, although details of the deal’s finer points are predictably scarce.

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