Monday Morning News

<img class="imgright size-full wp-image-125" title="steve4" src="http://www.mactalk.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/steve4.jpg" alt="steve4" width="188" height="250" />iPhone OS 3.0 will have Stereo Bluetooth A2DP support - which means you can send high quality music to Bluetooth devices, like cars. The Toyota Venza supports A2DP, so you can hook up your iPhone, directly to the cars stereo, with no cables, simply over Bluetooth. <a href="http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2009/04/video-2009-toyota-venza-iphone-streaming-bluetooth-audio.html">Cars.com Kicking Tires blog has a video of this amazing feat.</a>

<a href="http://www.stgeorge.com.au/accounts/ways-you-can-bank/mobile-banking/">St. George have gone and iPhone'd their internet banking.</a> You can view 30 days of transaction history, pay bills with BPAY, transfer money between your accounts and to other people.

<a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2009/04/vmware-fusion-203-update-now-available.html">VMware Fusion 2.0.3 is out.</a> Printing works now, after a Mac OS X update borked it, is supported on the new Mac Mini's, iMacs and Mac Pro's and there is experimental support for Snow Leopard Server. <a href="http://www.vmware.com/support/fusion2/doc/releasenotes_fusion_203.html">Full release notes are on the VMware website.</a>

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Made some awesome iPhone or Mac apps? <a href="http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ada/?cid=CDM-DM-WWDC2009-ADA&amp;Email_PageName=WWDC2009-ADA-c4&amp;Email_OID=494338&amp;cp=&amp;sr=em">Submit your app to Apple in order to win an Apple Design Award!</a> If you win, you get to become a geek demi-god and a really cool glowing cube.

Optus states they have 82.65% mobile phone coverage. My arse. More like 2.65%, amiriteguyz? <a href="http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25279909-5014239,00.html">Apparently mobile coverage is overstated, due to poor measurement rules.</a> So it's not just your imagination. Note: Optus does have more than 2.65% coverage ok. I heard they're up to 5% now.

VLC, the empirical open-source playback, plus more application, <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10211388-16.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-5">has been updated to 0.9.9</a> - it brings improvements to Intel Mac video playback.

Need to take photos of papers with your iPhone? <a href="http://dvice.com/archives/2009/04/cardboard_scand.php">University of Cincinnati DAAP student Kyle A Koch did and he made a fancy stand out of cardboard to do so.</a> Just go look at the pictures, I won't explain. I do not know why one would use an iPhone for this task, but power to ya bro.

Microsoft take bat again, ready to knock one out of the park with their "Hey, I'm a cheapskate who doesn't appreciate quality products and only buys things that adhere to a price-point" ads. We meet Giampaolo, who is cute, but not as cute as Lauren. Let it be known that this guy is a tool. <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10212492-75.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20">CNET have the video and their 2c.</a>

iPhone v3 (the next iPhone, not iPhone 3G) rumours are flying thick and fast. <a href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20090403PB200.html">OmniVision have been accepting orders for a load of 3.2MP camera circuitry</a> and what-not from Apple and someone found evidence of the <a href="http://www.9to5mac.com/broadcom-BCM4329-iphone-802.11n-FM">Broadcom BCM4329 being used</a>, which has 802.11n and an FM transmitter/receiver. We wait for mid-year to see what Apple releases in the next iPhone.

<a href="http://www.appcraver.com/webmdmobile/">WebMD makes it's way to the iPhone</a>, so now you can be a hypochondriac any where, any time!