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Screenshots and user-uploaded videos of OS X 10.6 (aka Snow Leopard) have been popping up as the first quarter of 2009 inches ever closer.

During WWDC last June, Apple's Jordan Hubbard gave a presentation which included a slide saying that Snow Leopard was slated for a Q1 2009 release. The OS update is comprised mainly of un-flashy improvements that are geared toward increased performance and optimization of the new hardware architecture of the latest Macs.

In a last-minute trade that leaves Microsoft without its lead-off pitcher, Major League Baseball announced this morning it has signed a two-year deal with Adobe that will mean its online video app moves back to Flash.

It was Bill Gates himself who, in the spring of 2007, demonstrated Major League Baseball's use of Silverlight as an example of its worthiness to go toe-to-toe against Adobe Flash, and become at least equally as ubiquitous among online video platforms. But now, Microsoft is about to lose one of its most prominent partners in the race for equal status, as MLB's Advanced Media division (MLBAM) announced it has signed a two-year deal with Adobe.

Although some Apple developers are airing a lot of frustration lately, mDialog's Greg Philpott wants it known that he's basically happy about creating software for Apple platforms.

While iPhone software applications like Podster and Murderdrome have gotten nixed by Apple's App Store, thousands of others are indeed up there for download. A "social video" application from mDialog, available since the App Store's launch on July 10, is driving considerable new business for mDialog, said Greg Philpott, the company's founder and CEO. In an interview with BetaNews, Philpott also shared some tips for other developers interested in getting their software into the App Store.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs called a reporter at the New York Times to explain his health situation, but his insistence on only talking off the record has done little to assuage the fears of investors.

To many, Steve Jobs is the driving force behind Apple, and his presence across all areas of the company is undeniable. But Jobs' recent health scares, including a previous bout with cancer, have caused many on Wall Street to question the company's insistence on staying secretive.

Apple has reportedly released a beta of its next significant release of the iPhone software, activating background push notifications, as well as enhanced GPS functionality.

iPhone 2.1 should not be confused with 2.0.1, another firmware update reportedly in testing. The latter is essentially a maintenance release intended to fix some of the more serious bugs that have appeared with iPhone 2.0.

Concerns over Steve Jobs' health continue to dog the company, and its attempts to quell such discussion seem to be falling mostly on deaf ears.

The issue cropped up once again during Apple's financial results call Monday when Lehman Brothers financial analyst Ben Reitzes said he was forced to ask for an official statement from the company on Jobs' health.

Apple said in its quarterly earnings conference call Monday that it has shipped 2.5 million Macs in its fiscal third quarter, with the company hinting at a "product transition" to come during this quarter.

In typical Apple fashion, chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer gave little details as to what the transition may be. The only hint was that the mystery product would cut into the company's gross margins.

While it appears that information between Apple's new service and the iPhone are syncing as advertised, users are finding that push services between the computer and MobileMe don't work the same way.

Indeed, Apple has advertised the service using words such as "immediate," which would lead most to believe its service is exactly that fast. But even after applying an update said to enable computers for MobileMe, immediacy doesn't appear to be happening.

Just a few blocks away from the Moscone Center, where Steve Jobs and company host Macworld and WWDC every year, the enthusiasm for Apple's latest product launch was apparent.

SAN FRANCISCO (BetaNews) - Purchasing products in the Apple Store here typically can be an interesting experience, as it's quite common to exit a Jobs keynote and head to the store just a few blocks away, with Apple employees still unaware of what was announced.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster sent out mixed signals regarding his view of the future success of third-party apps on the iPhone.

Munster's research note to clients indicates that he believes Apple's new App Store could generate anywhere from $416 million to $1.2 billion in revenues during 2009, and suggested the iPhone could sell as many as 45 million units.

There's evidence of a lot of savvy business deals having taken place between AT&T and Apple, with both sides getting more of what they want from the new iPhone, while customers get the impression that they're getting a better deal too.

The big news from Monday was the dramatic drop in the up-front price for Apple's next-generation iPhone, made available in the US through AT&T. While that makes the barrier to entry somewhat easier for new buyers, and probably raises AT&T's gambling stakes for the new device, in the end, new two-year contract holders (the minimum allowable for the iPhone) will end up paying much the same, assuming they use 3G service.

For users looking for a free and open source alternative to Apple's MobileMe synchronization tool, announced Monday, Funambol will transfer personal information management data, and is based upon the iPhone 2.0 SDK.

Available through the myFUNAMBOL portal, the initial offering only allows users to sync their contacts, with the ability to sync notes and calendars to be offered later. The software works with POP, IMAP, Exchange, and Domino e-mail servers, with more than 150 mobile phone models already supported.

On Monday, Apple made mention of a curious new technology it said would help accelerate the development of CPU-to-GPU process sharing, calling it OpenCL. But the lack of information about what it is makes us all the more curious.

In its press materials released Monday, Apple made mention of a technology it called OpenCL, whose purpose was reportedly to enable so-called GPGPU functionality -- the ability for graphics processors to handle some of the heavy computing tasks normally threaded to CPUs. Since Apple is already involved with a project that's part of Khronos Group's OpenGL, specifically to enable GPGPU functionality, our first reaction was that this must be a typo.

Announced last week, Samsung's L870 Symbian S60 3.2 Smartphone will be the first handset other than Apple's iconic iPhone to come equipped with Safari as its native mobile browser.

The S60 default browser is based upon the same WebKit browser engine as Safari, so having Safari on board instead may not necessarily be a great technological leap. Like Safari, the S60 browser currently boasts desktop-quality browsing, and has generally been viewed as an excellent application in its own right.

Citigroup's Richard Gardner and Yeechang Lee said in a research note Thursday that they expect Apple to introduce the 3G iPhone during Job's keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference.

That date makes some degree of sense, considering WWDC is also a likely candidate for the introduction of the final release of iPhone Firmware 2.0. Jobs speaks at the beginning of each conference, this year being held from June 9-13.