We have mixed feelings about iTunes: it can be slow – especially if you’re using external drives, which it forgets about far too often for our liking – and it’s desperately due a redesign.
There can be few more hotly contested areas in tech than the one that surrounds your humble TV.
On the one hand you have consumer tech giants like Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba all trying to persuade us to buy Blu-ray players, PVRs and, of course, new TVs.
![3118600559 b449aafd35 t Funambol Brings Open Source Mobile Cloud Sync to mVoIP [OStatic]](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3078/3118600559_b449aafd35_t.jpg "Funambol Brings Open Source Mobile Cloud Sync to mVoIP [OStatic]")
When I heard that Funambol was rolling out an open source mobile cloud sync service for mobile VoIP users, I’ll be honest — I wasn’t thinking about the open code, or about how much easier it would make contacting people worldwide over a diverse array of devices. I immediately thought of my dad.
The Data Portability wars just got a little more interesting. Power.com, the service that lets users aggregate their social networks into a single hub, is countersuing Facebook for restricting users’ ability to export and move their own data. The company is claiming that Facebook is unlawfully withholding the data that users own (as stated in Facebook’s own ToS), and is stifling competition by refusing to allow third party services like Power.com to access the data, among other things. This should be fun.
Yahoo wants users of its search service to get rid of their pads and pencils and instead utilize a new feature it announced Tuesday called SearchPad. The feature automatically saves recent search items, including links, into a notepad that remains open while the user continues searching.
