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News round up: Pink Floyd and iPhone OS 4

Pink Floyd have become the first band to win a legal fight to prevent individual songs from their albums being sold online in outlets such as Apple's iTunes. Only complete albums can be sold following the ruling against record company EMI.

Rumours have also surfaced again that the next version of the iPhone OS, iPhone OS 4 will have multitasking - i.e. the ability to run more than one application at a time. 

10 billionth iTunes download

Apple has announced that the iTunes store has hit 10 billion downloads - and the song that pushed them over the line was by Johnny Cash.

Apple updates iPhone OS to 3.1.3

Apple has today issued an update to the iPhone OS. Not hugely spectacular but it improves battery level reporting accuracy and fixes some bugs. 

You can get this by simply plugging in your iPhone to your Mac or PC - nothing more to it than that.

You'll also find that iTunes has been updated to 9.0.3. The most notable update is that it remembers your password so you wont have to enter it every time you purchase/download an app. Hooray!

While you're doing that why not check out the latest top free or paid apps? One that stands out for us this week is the Sleep Cycle alarm clock. Yes you can actually take your iPhone to bed!

Doodle Jump stays ahead of the pack in paid apps

Doodle Jump has held off some impressive competition to maintain its pace at the top of the paid app charts this week. Recently released Grand Theft Auto - Chinatown Wars made it to third place with All-In-One Gamebox hitting second.

 

On the Free Apps chart Fall down! jumps to number one, followed by Call of Duty: World War: Zombies Lite at number two and Jungle Crash Land at three.

 

iTunes 8 and iPhone OS 2.1 coming on Tuesday?

Ars technica reports that the next major release of iTunes  - version 8 - will be released on Tuesday, along with the latest version of the iPhone operating system - version 2.1.

This coincides with Apples latest special event "Let's Rock" which is strongly rumoured to concern the announcement of new iPods and possibly more.