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The forecast assumes that the interest for the iPhone is at the same level today as when it was launched. In case, if this forecast is real, Apple will sell a much larger number of phones than its own initial editions.

Recently, Apple reported it would increase its production of phones in Taiwan.

Currently, the company produces 150,000 units of iPhones per day. But considering that current demand exceeds supply, and that Apple is preparing to launch the iPhone in more countries, this could prove that even 150,000 daily appliances is an insufficient number.

While Apple users around the world have celebrated the launch of 3G model of Apple’s iPhone, Greenpeace tries to ruin the party.

Indeed, Greenpeace accuses Apple of not living up to its intentions in the environmental field.

When Greenpeace tested the first Phone in 2007, found numerous flame retardants and PVC toxic. Apple has consistently promised that both chemicals where discontinued before the end of 2008. Therefore, Greenpeace expressed surprise and disappointment that the new model of iPhone contains the same chemicals.

The environmental group stressed, however, not yet physically examined the device had been limited to analyzing the contents defined by Apple itself.

“It may well be that iPhone is twice as fast and cost half as Apple wrote in its commercial, but contains the same chemicals that earlier models,” writes Greenpeace. Based on information from Apple’s website, it seems that the “G” in the 3G models does not mean “Green”. “Steve Jobs has missed an opportunity to relaunch the iPhone as a green product, which can compete with other leading manufacturers such as Nokia and Sony Ericsson, which already have eliminated these harmful substances, “writes Casey Harrel, Greenpeace said in a statement.

Particularly, I am not part of the consolidated Google Empire. I have a Gmail account, but have been relegated to collect spam messages or people who cannot remember my real email address. But I know people who blindly believe in Google, its web-based email, in its calendar and its chat program.

And because Google is taking the habit of making their websites more friendly to the iPhone is not surprising that they have created a new version of Google Talk, its instant messaging application specifically designed for iPhone.

To access this new version, you just have to go to www.google.com/talk and see the simple interface. From there, they may see their contacts, send instant messages and even define a state.

In truth, I do not have too many contacts on my list of Google Talk, as you can see clearly - most of my friends are fans of AIM. But it’s nice to know that if one day I decide to change my loyalty to the side of Google, I can do very easily from my iPhone.

Snow Leopard will optimize the performance of OS X, will set new standards and leave the backwork for innovations in the following OS X.

Apple anticipates the launch of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which is built on OS X Leopard and is the next version of the advanced operating system.

Snow Leopard is optimized for a multi-core processor, which allows you to use all possibilities of the graphics processing unit (GPUs), as well as the use of a new multimedia platform QuickTime X. Snow Leopard includes support for Microsoft Exchange 2007.

“We have delivered to users over a thousand new features and applications for OS X in just 7 years, and Snow Leopard will sit the bases for a thousands more,” said Bertrand Serlet, senior vice president of software engineering of Apple. “In our continuing effort to provide better experiences to users, we press the pause button on developing new features to focus on refining the most advanced operating system in the world. ”

Snow Leopard gives support for modern hardware with a open computer language (OpenCL), which allows any application that takes advantage of gigaflops of GPU, processing power that was previously only available for graphics applications. OpenCL is developed on the basis of a programming language C and has been proposed as an open standard. In addition OS X leads the 64-bit technology; Snow Leopard increases the limits of system memory on a theoretical level of up to 16 TB of RAM.

For the first time the OS X includes native support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 in Mail, Address Book and iCal applications, making it much easier the integration of Mac to organizations of any size.

I perfectly know that this isn’t something new. But it is something that I wanted to share with all of you. This was originally filmed in 1983, when Apple seemed to be the personal computers vendor that was going to rule the world. Lotus 123 was the dominant software in that time and Microsoft was a tiny company.

One day Steve Jobs invited the CEOs of the most important companies in that time to participate in a show that was called the “Macintosh Software Dating Game”. The companies that participated where Software Publishing Corporation (the creators of the popular application Harvard Graphics, the company doesn’t exists anymore), Lotus Development (the 123 software developers, now part of IBM) and Microsoft (you perfectly know who they are).

It is very fun to see Steve Jobs 25 years ago with hair! Enjoy it!