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Forrester has released a list of 10 reasons why Apple's iPhone is no friend to IT.

You can probably think of a few already: the prohibitive cost, the first-gen factor, and fidelity to AT&T.

Not many are aware of the immense value of marketing in education -- that is, opening up the world of the classroom to the eyes of the public. Yet it's often difficult to let visitors and prospective students catch a glimpse of what life is like in the labs or in seminars without causing major disruption or offsetting the curriculum.

Enter iTunes.

Apple has announced that its beloved iPhone -- which has worked so hard to punish steadfast iPhone unlockers in the past -- will be availing itself to outside applications (a la Facebook). This means developers will be able to create little widgetey apps that run native on the iPhone when installed. (Current iPhone-specific apps -- like Typepad or EditGrid's solutions, for example -- have to run through the phone's Safari web browser.)

The software toolkit will be available this February. (Note that the toolkit will also work for the iPod Touch, which is pretty much the iPhone without the calling capabilities.)

The Baltimore Sun calls this move a step closer to "realizing [the iPhone's] potential as an ultra-portable mini-computer."

Ironically, a Microsoft employee predicted this was the direction mobile would be taking just last July. In 10 years or so, it could be bye-bye laptop.

So what if installing third party software on your iPhone may void your warranty. A blogger's got to do what a blogger's got to do, and what could be more enticing than the ability to blog from one's iPhone?

Building on its initial foray into mobile (inclusion of Apps into the iPhone), Google digs deeper still, adding its Search and Maps functions to the Planet 3 mobile portal.

As the head of a company that’s pioneered the mobile application and on-device portal space for the past seven years, I’d like to welcome the Apple iPhone to the party. Sure, it arrived late, but the iPhone arrived in style.

Proving that content management is just as important for creative shops as it is legal firms, Denver-based Quark Inc. announces the availability of a new and improved version of their QuarkXPress Server product. The buzz word for this release is XML .

As the Google vs. Microsoft battle hits the road warrior, many are expecting the first major outbreak of the iPhone to be fired with Google Docs and Spreadsheets - which as of this week, works on Safari.

While there wasn't much excitement at this week's WWDC for the Apple Fanboys amongst us, Apple did flip the script and reveal Safari for Windows.

In an impressive feat of kicking-software-to-the-door timing, virtualization champ Parallels unleashes an update on steroids, mere days after Vista's release to the not-so-breathless public.

The short 'n sweet of it is that those who'd still like a perfectly integrated Microsoft OS experience on their Macs, in tangent with OS X, need waste nary a week feeling stone-aged.

Proximity Group, one of the leading Video asset management firms with offices in London, New York and Sydney, has been acquired by Apple, according to their website.

Virtualization is the trick of masking physical computing resources from the end user or from the client operating system. The term, once an electric buzzword in the IT marketing world, has been around so long it's now loosely used for almost any computing work that involves an abstraction of resources.

But the topic of virtualization is seeing a revival, and from a corner at which lots of eyeballs are pointing: Apple Computer. And all because of a tiny Parallels upgrade called the Parallels Beta Build 3036 for Mac OS X.