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Music WithMe will wirelessly sync the music on your computer with your BlackBerry, wherever you happen to be. Specifically, it will sync selected playlists in iTunes over a Wi-Fi or cellular network so your mobile music library is always up to date.

The app, from a company named ParkVu, works with a piece of client software on your Windows PC to read your iTunes library database. Whenever you add or change something in iTunes, those changes are pushed to an app running in the background on your BlackBerry and added to its standard music-player.

It sound a little gimmicky at first, although when on the same Wi-Fi network, auto-syncing would certainly be helpful. But it somewhat ironically solves one of the biggest problems of the iPad or iPhone: the lack of auto-updating podcasts. If you are away from your home machine and you want to update your podcasts on an Apple device, you have to search them out one at a time and download manually. With Music WithMe, you could just check your podcast playlist and have new episodes pushed to your BlackBerry.

Sadly, Music WithMe won’t be coming to iOS anytime soon, although Android, Symbian and Maemo users (yes, both of you) will be getting versions. The trial price, when the app launches any day now, will be $15. The final price has yet to be announced.

Music WithMe puts your iTunes library on your smartphone [Music WithMe. Thanks, Roseann!]

It looks like iTunes 9.2 has just hit the Software Update screens of computers across the land, and if you’ve got an iPhone 4 on order, this is one you’ll want to get around to installing in the next few days — it’s the only way you’ll be able to sync (actually, you’ll want it if you’re using iOS 4 on any manner of iPhone). Major features include iBooks support on the iPhone and iPod touch, PDF syncing through iBooks, home screen folder organization, and “faster backups” with iOS 4-equipped devices — a promising sign for anyone troubled by long sync times. Follow the break for Apple’s full rundown.

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Need another way to get your tunes (whether they be i-prefixed or not) onto your Android celly? HomePipe is the latest, a service offering easy access to files on your home computer via your cellphone. It’s been available for Apple devices for some time now, but a recently added Android app extends the reach of its plumbing system. That mobile app works in conjunction with a desktop version acting as a server, pushing photos, documents, and lots of types of media — including iTunes. HomePipe claims this makes it the “first to ever stream home iTunes music to Google’s Android,” but having played with Michael Robertson‘s MP3tunes service, which uploads your music library to the cloud and allows access from Android handsets, we’re happy to assure the service that it is at least the second. Still, it sounds mighty handy, and for the bargain price of free it’s definitely worth a shot. Video demo and full press release is just below.

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This article was written on July 31, 2007 by CyberNet.

There seems to be a lot of news in the land of Apple today, so instead of covering everything in-depth, we’ve got all the Apple headlines in-brief:

iTunes Store has Sold over Three Billion Songs

• Wowy! The iTunes store has sold over three b-b-billion songs! The iTunes catalog currently features over five million songs, 550 TV Shows, and 500 movies (hmm… this number seems pretty low to me). They are now the third largest music retailer in the United States and I still have yet to make a purchase from them.

Bejeweled Free for iPhone!

• Bejeweled is considered a classic, and now you can get it for free on your iPhone. The maker of the game, PopCap Games has created a version made especially for the iPhone that is played in the Safari browser. You can find the game at www.popcap.com.

Source: CrunchGear

Apple Sued by Eminem Publishers

• Apple has been sued by Eminem’s publishers who claim that Apple broke copyright by selling Eminem’s music which they were not authorized to sell. It always amazes me when issues like this come up. The lawyer handling the case, Owen Sloane says the Apple suit is an example of a larger problem in the music industry where labels have the right to sell CDs but not downloads. Why an artist wouldn’t want their music to be available in the form of a download where they get paid is beyond me.

Source: MacNN

Apple’s iPhone Patents

• Unwired View has an interesting post which shows some of the Apple patents that were filed which cover some of the iPhone’s features like the “intelligent keyboard.” Within the single patent for the virtual keyboard, there were 136 “specific user interface innovation claims” which means that competitors who want to create something similar will have a difficult time!

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