World’s leading mobile music discovery provider Shazam today announced the availability of its (SHAZAM)^RED Special Edition App on the App Store. Unlike the Shazam app which is free, the new app costs $4.99 like Shazam Encore app. Apart from updated content related to (RED)™, rest of features are mostly similar to that of Shazam Encore. Shazam will donate 20% of the proceeds to (RED). (RED) works towards eradication & awareness of HIV and AIDS in Africa.

“(RED) enables consumers to positively impact the lives of those living with AIDS in Africa through their purchases of products and we are incredibly honored to be the first mobile app company to partner with them,” said Andrew Fisher, CEO of Shazam. “Given our popularity and that we already have more than 10 million iPhone and iPod touch users around the world, (SHAZAM)^RED is a powerful way for our audience to create real change in the world.”

Shazam has now become the first mobile app developer to link up with (RED). All new and existing Shazam users will have the option to upgrade to (SHAZAM)^RED .

Security firm F-Secure is reporting that a new iPhone worm is targeting jailbroken ipnones in the Netherlands. Unlike the first worm, this one is malicious and steals bank login info. More specifically, customers of ING Direct are targeted in this round. If the jailbroken iPhone is SSH enabled with the default password (“alpine”) unchanged, the worm redirects the bank’s customers to a look-a-like site with a log-in screen. The hacker can then use the collected login data to steal money from the bank accounts at a later time. The new worm also has the ability to infect iPhones sharing the same WiFi hotspot. So it is imperative that jailbroken iPhone users should either disable SSH or change the default password to be secure.

After almost three months, famous multi protocol chat client Trillian has been approved in the iPhone appstore. In the past couple of years Beejive, IM+, fring etc got pretty popular in the appstore with hundreds of downloads everyday. However, Trillian’s strength is its huge desktop install base of loyal users. Trilian is  one of the earliest desktop IM clients that supported multiple protocols like Gtalk, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ etc.

It should be a bittersweet day for Trillian makers Cerulean Studios. The app has already been cracked/pirated and is distributed in leading pirate forums for download. The number of downloads prove that the pirated app is getting very popular among the jailbroken iphone community. iPhone appstore piracy is worse when compared to Windows desktop app piracy. Atleast in the case of Windows, pirates have the hassle of finding the right keygen or crack. In the case of jailbroken iPhones, it’s just download and run the app. So very sad for the developers of Trillian, they do not have the option to blacklist or kick the pirates from their servers thanks to the limitations imposed by Apple.

According to a Taiwanese news outlet, Apple may be delaying the launch of it iTablet till late 2010. Plans to launch a model using a 9.7-inch OLED panel from LG nd switching some of the components are touted as the major reasons for the delay. The delay kinda makes sense, as by the end of 2010, people would have forgotten about the recession and would be going on a mad holiday purchasing spree. However, some details from the source, like the tablets will cost $1,200-$1,500 to make and would be sold for $2,000 to consumers is outright implausible. Apple is greedy, but they are definitely not crazy.