Despite the fact that the iTunes is not getting much use as music source (people access it for apps, otherwise, they rely on services such as Spotify for music), it is surprising how Apple is still trying to push Ping forward.

In what is apparently a substitute social networking tool, Apple is promoting the Ping service as a way for users to connect and reach out to their friends and contacts to compare and share listening preferences on anything. As interesting as that may sound, it is not exactly an enticing enough reason to pull out one’s Apple iPhone just to see which new music tracks your friends are listening to –and people would prefer to use Facebook instead.

In any case, it is not that bad having Ping around (though it will mess up with your bandwidth and data allotment a by a bit), though its usability is understandably quite low.

In other news, it seems that videos and images of the upcoming Nokia and Intel developed MeeGo operating system have been made available online in order to show us what the new system might be looking like. The new OS certainly looks stylish and sleek, though it is hard to determine from images how intuitive the user interface controls will be.

At the very least, seeing the upcoming MeeGo OS does prove that it was a right move for Nokia to drop Maemo and for Intel to hold development on the Moblin OS.

Lastly, it appears that the merger between T-Mobile and Orange UK is pushing through with the emergence of the Everything Everywhere company which stands as the UK’s largest network operator.

What makes this move quite impressive is that users will now be able to connect to any available network that they have in the vicinity –pretty much akin to local roaming. The merger is considered to be a long term plan for the two companies.

Tags: Apple, Apple-iPhone, apple-itunes, Intel, MeeGo, Nokia, Orange, T-Mobile

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