Daily Snippets for Monday, This Week, This Year.

Among the stories we scrounged over the intarwebs for you are Apple approving some Google Voice apps, Germany still not liking Google Streetview and others.

Also, do you remember FORTRAN? Guess what today is…

Remember FORTRAN?

I am certain some of our readers either know someone who has, or maybe even have themselves, used it for work. Today in 1954 the first FORTRAN Program ran.

Read about this historic event over at COMPUTERHISTORY.org

Germany opposes Google Street View switch-on

Ze Germanz refus to us ze Google Stret Fiew.

Right, lame jokes aside, it seems that Germany still does not like Google Street View. The German government is meeting to discuss concerns over the service.

Google is giving people until 15 October to opt out of the service.

Via BBC.co.uk

Apple approves Google Voice apps

Apple has approved a pair of Google voice apps for the iTunes store. The interesting thing is that these apps have not been built entirely according to Apple approved standards as far as the tools used for building it are concerned.

Read more about it at HEXUS.net

Altech threatens legal action over digital tv standards

Another day, another story of government shafting the people. This time the Altech is fighting back over government plans to drop DVB-T in favor of ISDB-T.

I am not in a position to comment, but you can read a very interesting piece about it over at Timeslive.co.za

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