Facebook has reportedly shut off access to its friend search feature for subscribers to Apple’s newly introduced Ping social music service. The social networking apparently giant did this by denying Ping access to its application programming interfaces, AllThingsD reported. Talks between Apple and Facebook to give Ping subscribers the ability to search for Facebook friends also using Ping reportedly broke down before Apple’s service was launched Wednesday. The two are said to be holding talks again.

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Apple put a charge in its iPod line Wednesday, but it remains a holdout in the “all you can ear” music subscription market. Apple revamped its flagship player, the iPod touch, so it’s now essentially an iPhone without the phone. It also brought buttons back to the iPod shuffle and a touchscreen to the iPod nano. In addition, while the company remained true to its a la carte mode of delivering music, it is dipping its toes into social networking with the new Ping service it added to the latest version of its music software, iTunes 10.

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I like walled gardens. They are safe and, for the most part, keep out the predators. However, when one sneaks over the wall, the results can be ugly, to say the least. With the iTunes App Store, one of the key supposed advantages for end-users is that it is a walled garden, and Apple is providing a safe, secure environment you can trust in. Apple vets the apps that are approved and provides a mechanism that allows users to review apps. The company even set up the review process so that only those who download an app can review it.

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Apple’s iOS has surpassed Linux as the world’s third most-used operating system, according to NetApplications. The OS, which powers all iPod Touches, iPhones, and iPads, currently holds 1.13 percent of the market, while all flavors of Linux account for only .85 percent of the market.

The most-used operating system is still Windows, the various versions of which held steady at a whopping 91.34 percent share. The second-place contender, Apple’s OS X, was slightly down at an even 5.00 percent. Windows 7 itself currently holds 15.87 percent of the market, above Vista’s 14.00 percent but well below the aging XP’s 60.89 percent.

This news surely comes as somewhat of a blow to Linux, which has held the third-place position for the better part of the past decade. Proponents of the open-source OS have always been quick to proclaim that Linux’s time is coming – Windows Vista was supposed to spur wide-scale adoption of Linux, as was the netbook revolution – but this data confirms that it is still largely a niche OS.

Apple’s iOS, on the other hand, powers all of its extremely popular iDevices, and lately appears to have taken priority even over OS X. Apple’s recent keynotes have focused mostly on iOS 4 and 4.1 while OS X 10.7 remains unmentioned, despite evidence of its development.

This site is called Windows 7 News, so it stands to reason that we’d be more concerned with Windows 7′s marketshare than with any other OS or Windows version. Indeed, Windows 7 made headlines last month when it surpassed Windows Vista’s marketshare just ten months after its release to the public. However, it’s important to keep an eye on all competitors, big and small – though iOS doesn’t currently seem to be gaining marketshare at the expense of Windows, it’s entirely possible that tablets could begin to supplant notebooks and netbooks as the mobile computing device of choice.

Sources: Conceivably Tech, SoftPedia

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Shares of Apple closed up 60 cents on Tuesday to hit $243.10. However, Cupertino is still smarting from the downward spiral of the past few weeks, when its stocks took a beating along with the rest of the market. The Dow on Tuesday recovered a fraction of what it lost after a Monday drubbing, and the Nasdaq fell nearly six points. We’ll see what AAPL does on Wednesday, when Cupertino will host an event widely expected to usher in new products related to its iPod line. That product family has been given an annual September refresh for the last several years.

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