1. If you are wearing gloves, the iPhone’s virtual keypad won’t work. That’s a concern for wintertime phone calls in cold areas.
2. No memos.
3. No voice dialing.
4. No voice recording.
5. No games.
6. No capacity for video output to a tv (as iPod has).
7. No capacity for over-the-air calendar appointments.
8. No capacity for over-the-air software updates.
9. No IM. Gotta use text messaging.
10. No flash or zoom in the camera.

If you have more reasons .. let us know in comments!

The third and final service pack for Windows XP will be released on 21 April, according to leaked reports.

Neowin claims to have got hold of an internal Microsoft schedule that shows SP3 will be released to OEMs, MSDN and TechNet subscribers on Monday.

Just over a week later on 29 April, the Service Pack will be made available on Microsoft Update, Windows Update and Download Centre.

Finally, the Pack will be issued through Microsoft’s Automatic Update service on 10 June. That’s just days before the company controversially plans to withdraw XP from sale across the world on 30 June.

Microsoft has refused to confirm the rumours, with a statement claiming: “We expect Windows XP SP3 to be available in 1H 2008, provided it meets our quality bar for release.”

Service Pack 3 has reportedly been ready to roll for some time, but the company was waiting for Vista Service Pack 1 to take hold before giving people any further incentive to stick with XP.

However, the problems that have marred Vista SP1 may convince even more people to stay rooted to XP.

Dell told PC Pro yesterday that its new range of Vostro business laptops would continue to be supplied with Windows XP because “we’re here to supply what customers want.”

Reports of Vista’s demise were also given fresh impetus earlier this month when Bill Gates talked of Windows 7 arriving next year, although the company later stipulated that the release schedule for the new OS had not been brought forward.

Author: Barry Collins

Yahoo, after years of battling Internet rival Google for online advertising, said Wednesday it would launch a limited test of Google’s AdSense for Search service.

The announcement drew a sharp response from Microsoft, which warned that a Yahoo-Google partnership would cover some 90 percent of online advertising.

The test is expected to last up to two weeks and will be limited to no more than three percent of Yahoo search queries, Yahoo said in a statement. The program will deliver Google ads alongside Yahoo’s own search results.

The Sunnyvale, California-based company said the test will apply only to traffic from yahoo.com in the US and will not include Yahoo’s network of affiliate or premium publisher partners.

Yahoo said the testing does not necessarily mean it will “join the AdSense for Search program or that any further commercial relationship with Google will result.”

Yahoo is also fighting off a takeover bid from software giant Microsoft, arguing the offer undervalues the Internet firm.

Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel, said in a statement: “Any definitive agreement between Yahoo and Google would consolidate over 90 percent of the search advertising market in Google’s hands.”

He added: “This would make the market far less competitive, in sharp contrast to our own proposal to acquire Yahoo. We will assess closely all of our options.”

Smith said Microsoft remains committed to a 44.6 billion dollar takeover offer for Yahoo.

“Our proposal remains the only alternative put forward that offers Yahoo shareholders full and fair value for their shares, gives every shareholder a vote on the future of the company, and enhances choice for content creators, advertisers, and consumers,” he said.
News: AFP