iTunes Ping allows you to follow your favorite artists and friends just like Twitter but to discover the music they’re downloading, listening to and talking about.
“iTunes is the number one music community in the world, with over 160 million iTunes users in 23 countries, and now we’re adding social networking with Ping. With Ping you can follow your favorite artists and friends and join a worldwide conversation with music’s most passionate (more…)

By integrating this new service with Gmail, Google has instantly created a social network of 150 million users who may now share updates, photos, videos and links with their friends as well as with the public.
Google also says Buzz simplifies user privacy by letting them post updates to select user groups from their contacts.
Buzz.Google.com iPhone web app
Shortcut to Buzz on Google's homepage.
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You no longer have to constantly check back on your app for new updates.
Users will now be able to receive a popup notification whenever somebody writes on your wall or comments on your status messages. As MG Seigler from
notes, this could let you to interact more passively with your Facebook data.
One of the other significant introductions in the new version of the Facebook app is the ability to sync your Facebook friends with your iPhone address (more…)

Google web app users on iPhone and Android will now be shown larger navigational buttons along with increased contrast, which Google says helps you to view your email content and Calendar entries better.
Explaining the changes, the company says
“We never want the buttons and toolbars of Google apps to compete with your content; rather, they should complement them. So the headers and buttons are now darker, to better show the content of your emails (more…)

In an attempt to redress the situation, Apple has now introduced a new feature in the Dev Center website that will give the iPhone app developers a better idea about status of their application's approval.
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' against each of their submitted apps. While this is definitely a better scenario, we are not exactly sure if this will solve the issue.
. Instead, it is the inconsistency in these. Presently, Apple claims to approve
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