Apple’s iPhone OS 4.0 announcement delivered plenty of features we expected, and some we didn’t. In fact, it adds 100 new features in total, and they’ll all be in users’ pockets this summer. Developers get 1500(!) new APIs that provide access to parts of the phone they’ve never been able to use before.

Multitasking:

Jobs explained that multitasking took so long because Apple had to do it in a way that wouldn’t crush the iPhone’s performance and battery life. He says they’ve accomplished that goal in iPhone 4.0, and foreground apps shouldn’t be significantly slower when background apps are running.
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The next generation of graphic cards ATI Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850 boasting of DirectX 11 support and ATI Eyefinity technology are now available, these video cards support upto 3 monitors and resolution upto 2560×1600 per display, 6 screen support will eventually come out in November with a new version of 5870 graphics card with 6 mini display ports. HD 5800 series of graphics cards also supports dual, triple and quad ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU technology.

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Google is taking a shot at their own version of the service. It’s called Sidewiki, and it just launched. Sidewiki is part of Google Toolbar (and it will be built directly into Google’s Chrome browser). Users activate the service by clicking on a button and a sidebar appears to the left of whatever website is being viewed.

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Touted as the world’s first multitouch, multiscreen concept solution, the prototype (code-named Tangent Bay) was unveiled at the Mobility Meetup, an Intel Insiders event for bloggers here.

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Google have released version 3.5 of their free image management application, Picasa.

Available for PC and Mac in English only, Picasa 3.5 adds functionality that bring the desktop client features in line with those already offered on Picasa Web Albums. The Linux version of Picasa, which currently stands at version 3.0, has not been updated.

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