Reports indicate that Apple will be extending preview length for songs in the United States market from 30 seconds to 90 seconds. However, only songs that exceed the length of 2 minutes and 30 seconds can be previewed in this new tripled length. Shorter songs will retain the current 30 second preview.

Differences in prices start to emerge as the Samsung Galaxy Tab, a tablet computer, becomes available in the United States in early November.

Apple confirmed Friday, October 22, that they will no longer be bundling Adobe Flash into the Mac OS X starting with its latest product, the smaller, thinner and lighter MacBook Air that was announced this week. All future Mac products will follow suit.

Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, unleashed announcements in the company’s Back to Mac event in Cupertino, California, Wednesday, October 20 that includes a thinner MacBook Air, iLife 11, Facetime for Mac, a new update of the Mac OS X called Lion and even a Mac App Store.

At 10:00 a.m. PDT today (October 20) Apple will be kicking off its latest special event at its Cupertino, California headquarters dubbed “Back to the Mac”. The company is likely to announce a new version of Mac OS X 10.7 (tentatively called Lion), but rumor has it that we’ll also see an updated MacBook Air, MacBook laptop line and its iLife software suite.

AT&T has announced that they will directly market the Apple iPad to the business sector to compete with Research in Motion (RIM) who will sell their upcoming tablet computer, the Playbook, to the business sector, its main market, sometime early 2011.

Apple was granted the patent in implementing a new technology, which will control text messages that are deemed to be “objectionable” and which can also be used as an educational and instructional tool.

“Windows Phone 7 is designed for small-screen devices such as smartphones and is not designed to work with larger screen devices.”

A jailbreak from someone who said he was retiring last July was released today. The twist is that the comeback release was supposed to be issued Monday, October 11, now it is ahead of another jailbreak release from another competitor

Reports indicate that Apple will be making a version of its popular touchscreen smartphone, the iPhone, for Verizon Wireless, the biggest US carrier by subscribers.