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MediaMemo is reporting that they have heard from multiple media sources that Apple is planning a Keynote Event in September.

Apple had held the "Let's Rock" special event on Sept. 9th last year, which was mostly focused towards music where they announced the new iPod Touch, iPod Nano and announced the release of iPhone OS 2.1. So it is possible that Apple could hold the event on Sept. 8th.

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The update is considered highly-critical and should be immediately applied on both Windows and Mac systems because of the risk of information disclosure, phishing and remote code execution attacks.

Apple has released a minor software update for iPhone, patching a security flaw revealed just yesterday.

Security researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner on Thursday revealed a memory corruption bug that could be easily exploited by crashing an iPhone with a series of invisible text messages, which would then enable a hacker to hijack the device. From thereon, a hacker could control all the functions on the iPhone — most alarmingly, he could send more text messages to hijack even more iPhones.

The researchers demonstrated the SMS security hole at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. They also demonstrated the flaw by sending an attack to crash a CNET reporter’s iPhone.

On Friday morning, Apple released iPhone OS 3.0.1. Available through iTunes, the update “Fixes SMS vulnerability,” according to its description.

gamerDNA

Emerging out of what was formerly GuildCafe, gamerDNA () is both a gamer and a data lover’s paradise, offering all manner of personal gameplay tracking and associated recommendations along with statistics to surface the most popular games and even what type of personalities tend to play them. Xbox 360 players can link their accounts up to have their game libraries and gameplay sessions tracked automatically, with the ability to add titles manually for the PS3, Wii and the PC.

Your user profile displays your gameplay calendar, library, and an activity feed of what your friends are playing as well as their activities on the site. Featuring a high level of social media integration, gamerDNA also allows you to add your other digital identities from other social networking sites. You can use a fine-grained set of permission tools to broadcast various daily game-related activities of your choice as well as activities you perform on the site out to your networks on Twitter (), Facebook (), Tumblr () or FriendFeed ().

On top of all that, gamerDNA features a sort of metagame wherein you earn points and achieve rankings based on how much you interact with the site over time. If you’re looking for a social interface to help catalogue your gaming experiences, an easy way to broadcast your gameplay out to your other social services, or simply a good game recommender engine, we recommend giving gamerDNA a try.

Raptr

Similar to gamerDNA, Raptr collates statistics on your game library and gameplay activities and incorporates them into your gamer profile as well as providing game recommendations based on what you already like. Also similarly to gamerDNA, Raptr lets you hook your activity stream into your other social networks in order to broadcast your game-related activities.

Where the two sites differ is in the underlying technology — Raptr works primarily via a downloadable client application installed on your PC or Mac — and in Raptr’s stronger focus on connecting you with live, in progress games with your friends in real-time via presence indicators built in to the client app.

We actually like and use both of these sites liberally, but if you’re primarily a PC gamer who wants help finding a quick Team Fortress 2 match with your available friends online you might find yourself gravitating towards Raptr for the matchmaking functionality. And though otherwise similar in certain functionalities, both sites offer unique takes on recommendation systems and gameplay activity tracking, so feel free to give both a spin and let us know what you think in the comments.

WeGame

WeGame is a social network with a unique focus on sharing in-game video footage and screenshots. Instead of requiring the use of third-party video capture applications such as Fraps, WeGame provides its own proprietary video capture tool that integrates your video uploads directly with the site.

Users can rate individual videos, with the most popular vids bubbling to the top on the main page, and share videos they like on popular social sharing sites such as digg (), reddit (), StumbleUpon (), Facebook and Twitter. A unique “Challenges” section of the site offers users the ability to post requests for videos or screenshots on a specific theme, such as “biggest boss” or “coolest vehicle in a game.” Other users compete to win the challenge by posting the best video or screencap on that theme, providing a cool metagame on top of the larger media sharing activity on the site.

UGAME

UGAME.net is a space for gamers that offers a number of traditional social networking features including personal blogs, galleries, forums, and user profiles along with sections for creating teams (or guilds) as well as groups of like-minded fans of particular genres, franchises, or niche topics to hold discussions in a cohesive format. With a number of ways to search and browse the site for things to see and do, UGAME is another worthy contender in the growing pantheon of active social networks for gamers.

Rupture

As with some of the other members of this list, Rupture integrates with your gaming identities and adds gameplay activity to your profile’s activity feed. What sets Rupture apart is its Challenges section, which is user-generated as with WeGame but focuses on creating actual gameplay challenges and inviting other users to meet them. It’s essentially a user-generated Achievements feature, a unique and interesting spin on the concept of adding new goals and heights to reach within your game collection that the designers themselves did not include. By meeting challenges you can then earn points and gain levels on the metagame within the site itself.

There are many more social sites specifically for gamers out there as well as new ones cropping up all the time; if we’ve omitted your favorite, or you know of another site we should check out, let us know in the comments.

Solid Delivery launched

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It is crucial for your business to keep in touch with all your clients for future growth as well as customer retention. In most businesses the ability to communicate effectively with your customer base is essential to success.

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On the day that O2's data network crashed for the third time in a month, it was reported that the Spanish-owned carrier is on the point of losing its exclusive deal to sell Apple's iPhone.

Mobile Entertainment reports that it has seen documents which state explicitly that the arrangement will end on October 9 with Orange and T-Mobile the apparent favourites to start marketing the 3G version of the iPhone. The site says that O2 may retain exclusive rights to sell the new 3GS.

The news comes at a bad time for O2 which is facing a torrent of complaints about the data speeds that mobile users are able to get on the iPhone. The handset supports High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) download speeds of up to 3.6 megabits per second (mbps) but hundreds of users have complained on Twitter that they are not achieving speeds of anything approaching that.

It seems this Apple tablet really is being prepped for September. On top of a welter of rumours, one analyst now claims he’s had the first hands–on with Cupertino’s revolutionary device. He says it’ll be outed in September, before strutting onto shelves by November. Want to know what he makes of the Apple tablet? Then keep reading.

Talk of an Apple tablet has grown from idle speculation into a chaotic scramble for details. And after plans for a 10–inch, iPod–like device leaked out, now an analyst, the scourge of Apple’s top–secret inner sanctum, says he’s had a play with one.

Apple tablet launch brought forward

Apparently, it will cost between £420 and £480 when it launches in November. These prices seem remarkably low for what we’re talking about here: a first–gen Apple tablet looking to destroy netbooks which Apple has, in the past, slapped down as “slow and old.” While low prices would help, it’s just not Apple’s style.

Other reports also suggest Jobs and co are readying to load software up onto the Apple table via the App Store. That would make sense, not to mention keep those costs right down.