Mac News & Rumours from Singapore

If a state senator from Brooklyn has his way, New York City and Buffalo police officers might soon be booking iPod users if they try to cross the street while listening to music. Sen. Carl Kruger of Brooklyn, in response to two recent pedestrian deaths, has proposed legislation that would make iPod-crossing a minor offense [...]

Apple is very careful to not leak information about unreleased products on its website, although they have been known to slip a few times. More in-depth observation of Apple’s Leopard operating system may lend itself to some ‘Top Secret’ hints in the future version of iChat. In Apple’s online Leopard demo, the iChat buddy list [...]

Omnifone, a UK technology company, has unveiled a music service to rival Apple’s iPhone, allowing users to download unlimited music direct to their mobiles.
Apple is said to be working on a similar application allowing users to access the iTMS from their iPhones and future iPods.
The MusicStation is similar to its US counterpart iTunes, which will [...]

NVidia announced at 3GSM a new chip for mobile phones, the GoForce 6100.
The chip is an ARM core running at 250 Mhz, and according to rumours is one of the 3 ARM chips that will be sitting inside the iPhone. The features include:
- Multimedia & 3D acceleration
- Wi-Fi
- H.264 decoding
- Camera management
- Audio management
Only [...]