Apple has announced an event centered around iPhone OS, the operating system that powers the iPhone, iPod touch and now the iPad, this Thursday at 10.00 PDT. There, Apple will offer “a sneak peek of the next generation of iPhone OS software”, with many people anticipating the announcement of iPhone OS 4.0. [via Gizmodo]
Such an announcement would come only days after the public release of the iPad-exclusive iPhone OS version 3.2. It is not yet known whether the iPhone and iPod touch will continue to run on different versions of iPhone OS than the iPad or whether future releases will support all of the devices. As Apple specifically mentions the “iPhone OS software”, it is unlikely that details about the next generation iPhone(s), which may be released later this year, will be announced at the event.
Verizon has cut the prices of the Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus to $50 and $30, respectively, with a two-year contract. It has also made Mobile Hotspot, which previously cost $40 per month, a free service. In addition, the company’s “buy one, get one free” promotion for the phones is still in effect.
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With the release of the iPad imminent, Apple was expected to release an iTunes update to add support for the device and that update has come in the form of iTunes 9.1. The update includes:
Apple has released Mac OS X version 10.6.3, the first large update to the operating system this year. It features numerous bug fixes and improvements, including:
The Wall Street Journal, citing “people briefed on the matter”, 
Last month, Google announced that it was planning to build a 1 gigabit fiber network somewhere in the United States that it would initially test with 50,000 participants, with potentially up to 500,000 participants to be included at a later time. The company encouraged state, county and city officials, as well as members of the public to nominate their communities by answering its request for information.
Go Daddy announced that it would stop registering .cn (the country code top-level domain for China) domain names at a Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) hearing yesterday. The decision came after the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which administers the .cn domain, requested additional information about every person that registered a .cn domain with Go Daddy in the past six years. This information includes photo identification, business identification and a signature, while most registries only requiring the names, addresses and e-mail addresses of people who register for a domain name. If Go Daddy does not comply with the request, the CNNIC informed the company that its domain names would stop working. Those that have already registered .cn domain names through Go Daddy will continue to receive service, but new domains cannot be registered.