Double Sales Predicted for IPhone…

New York-based investment banking firm Morgan Stanley has just expressed its belief that the new 3G iPhone and its $199 US price tag will give Apple’s smartphone a big boost in terms of sales.

The prediction is that, the lower price, coupled with the release of the iPhone in additional markets will see some 27 million iPhones being sold in 2009, this being more than double the unit amount expected to be shipped this year. We’ll see…

World Record by FireFox 3…

Mozilla’s record-breaking initiative that was coupled with the release of Firefox 3 has officially paid off as the new browser now holds the Guinness World Record for the most downloads in the course of 24 hours. 8,002,530 downloads have been recorded in the first day of Firefox 3’s life with the number now reaching 28.6 million.

According to Net Applications Firefox’s worldwide browser market share stands at 19.03% and Firefox 3 will surely help bring that percentage up. In the mean time, congrats to Mozilla for the record!

About Google & Digg Deal !!!

The all mighty Google and content sharing website Digg are again reported doing the acquisition tango with the latest negotiations actually getting to a point where an agreement has almost been reached. If the interweb sees no eVIL then Google could be paying some $200 million for Digg and, following the acquisition, place the site under the Google News brand.

Nothing in currently written in stone though so, if the deal doesn’t goes through, don’t shoot the messenger. Not even the Yahoo! one.

Mac OS X 10.5.4 update released by Apple

Staying clear of a Patching Day model Apple has now let loose the 10.5.4 update for its latest OS (operating system) release dubbed Leopard. Working with Mac OS X 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, and 10.5.3 installs, the new update includes all the security fixes released since January 15 plus changes like:

General

- Resolves an issue with saving and reopening Adobe Creative Suite 3 files on a remote server.
- Includes additional RAW image support for several cameras.
- Addresses an issue that may result in a partially installed X11 application.
- Improves L2TP VPN client reliability.

AirPort

- Addresses AirPort reliability issues with 5GHz networks.
- Addresses AirPort issues that may result in slower performance in Logic Studio or MainStage.

iCal

- Improves overall iCal reliability for meeting requests, cancellation notices, delegation, and syncing with iPhone.
- Resolves an issue that prevents deleting an iCal event without notifying the creator.
- Addresses an issue in which events in all calendars affect availability. A checkbox now enables information-only calendars to be transparent from free/busy lookups.
- Resolves a UI issue preventing delegated calendars from showing up as a separate window.
- Addresses an issue with copying and pasting attendees from one event to another.
- Resolves an issue in which iCal may not delete events after a specified time interval, even when set to do so in iCal preferences.
- Addresses an issue in which To Dos cannot be marked private.

Safari

- Addresses a potential performance issue when loading secure web pages.
- Resolves issues that may be encountered when accessing secure web pages with client certificates that reside on a smart card.

Spaces and Exposé

- Addresses an issue in which switching from a space with a Finder window keeps the Finder as the active application instead of the application residing in the destination space.
- Fixes an issue in which dragging an application from the list of application assignments in Spaces System Preferences does not assign the application to the desired space.
- Resolves an Exposé issue that may result in only a subset of windows being shown.

To update your Mac OS to 10.5.4 just use the Software Update feature or download and install the package available here