Apple Rumored to Launch Premium App Store

Apple's App Store has been big hit to supplement the popularity of iPhone. Now, news that Apple is to privately preview iPhone OS 3.0 has raised expectations of many already. To complement the new iPhone OS 3.0, Apple is rumored to have created a 'premium' section in its existing App Store.


With over 15,000 applications and above 500,000,000 downloads, the App Store is 'the' business for Apple to supplement its iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Of the several developers, it's being rumored that the game development companies will be given preference for the 'Premium' section of the App Store.

The Premium section will comprise of the applications priced at $20 (Rs. 1,020 approx.) and above. This will help the game development and other app developing companies to offer their premium applications, which according to them are difficult to develop. Many game industry stalwarts believe that iPhone OS is the next (handheld) gaming platform.

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A Linux-based virtual desktop-IBM

IBM is unwavering to lure the customers with a bundle of Linux, virtualization, and IBM's Lotus collaboration software IBM has joined the band wagon with Virtual Bridges and Canonical to offer a Linux-desktop solution planned to drive as "significant savings" compared with Microsoft desktop software. The virtual desktop package runs open-standards-based e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets, unified communication, social networking, and other software that is "Microsoft free."


IBM and its partners are claiming noteworthy savings for companies with a large user base using their new bundle compared with Microsoft desktop shops. Appealing to cost-controlled shops around the world, they declare that the virtual desktop will yield savings on licensing costs ($500 to $800 per user on Microsoft licensing), hardware (no need to upgrade), power utilization and IT services (90 percent savings of desk side PC support; 75 percent of security/user administration; 50 percent of help desk services such as password resets, and 50 percent for software installations.
This latest move by IBM is prospective as well as interesting. It claims the first of the big vendors to not only show full support for KVM virtualization but also by actively selling it as part of their IBM Global Technology Services.


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