Fishers, Indiana – Daze End Software today released a new version of Action Lists, their task manager for the iPhone and iPod touch. Action Lists is designed specifically for the popular Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology created by David Allen. Action Lists has many GTD-specific features, and this new version adds user requested features like searching and the ability to create tasks from the contents of the iPhone’s clipboard.

In a recent Startup Weekend Event organized by Microsoft to test programmers skills on its platform, in a 54 hours-long race to get the US$5,000 Prize the most acclaimed application was a trojan horse. The application called Learn that Name, an iPhone application created to help people remember names was the winner of the Grand Prize, something totally out of this world.

Some news outlets are receiving the formal invitation to a Rock and Roll event this September 9th, the event will help dissipate some of the rumors about the new iPods, the Cocktail album format, the The Beatles catalog finally on iTunes and maybe the iPhone based tablet.

This will be a huge event depending on what is or what isn’t introduced or left behind, but the date is near the introduction of Microsoft’s new Zune HD (September 15th), the Creative Zii Egg and the Samsung Yp-R1 media player. September will be a crowded month.

Microsoft is not sleeping this time and want to take a piece of the searches made from the iPhone, it’s now launching the bing.com SDK that will help developers to easily integrate Bing search results into their applications.

The Bing SDK for iPhone and Mac is a Cocoa Framework and was designed to remove the headache of manually having to parse XML or JSON in order to communicate with the Bing API.

As part of its monthly “Patch Tuesday” schedule Microsoft has issued a number of bulletins about 12 security vulnerabilities in its software. Seven of the vulnerabilities affect Microsoft Excel, and could allow a hacker to gain remote control over a user’s computer by a maliciously crafted spreadsheet. Alarmingly, the vulnerability is not just found in the Windows version of Microsoft Excel, but also for Mac Office 2004 and the recently released Office 2008 for Macintosh.

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Microsoft Corp.’s Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) today announced the official availability of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac at the Macworld Conference & Expo 2008. Office 2008 for Mac is significantly enhanced to provide a simplified user experience that helps beginners and longtime experts alike deliver professional documents that are compatible for co-workers and friends on Macs and PCs. The suite provides the Office tools Mac users rely on, with a Mac-like approach and style. In addition to Office 2008, the Mac BU Web site, Mactopia (http://www.microsoft.com/mac), features a dramatic transformation to provide an even more resourceful hub for all things Mac BU.

U.S. software group Microsoft will not launch a product that competes directly with Apple Inc’s iPhone, Chairman Bill Gates said in an interview with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

“No, we won’t do that. In the so-called smart phone business we will concentrate solely on software with our Windows Mobile programme,” Gates was quoted as saying in the interview published on Wednesday.

“We have partnerships with a lot of device manufacturers from Samsung to Motorola and this variety brings us significantly more than if we would make our own mobile phone,” he added.