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  • Analysis: Five qualities of a great iPhone app
    Thinking about creating an iPhone app? A contest run by retailer Gap shows off five common strengths of winning iPhone apps. Here's a look at the lessons learned -- and the apps.
  • Apple announces iPhone Tech Talk World Tour 2009
    Apple’s iPhone Tech Talk World Tour is scheduled to run from October 29 to December 15 this year and will take place in nine cities across the world.
  • Apple allows in-app purchasing for free App Store apps
    Apple is now allowing developers of free App Store programs to include in-app purchasing. This should mean the end of two versions of programs—a free “lite” version and the paid-for full program—as developers can activate additional features with in-app purchasing.
  • Smartphones: A Tower of Babel for developers
    ould-be mobile developers face a Tower of Babel environment, making it tough to figure out how -- indeed, whether -- to take the plunge into creating apps for the small but enticing mobile market, says Infoworld's Paul Krill.
  • i.TV update to feature integrated remote for TiVo
    The forthcoming i.TV 2.0 update will include a remote control that lets users of the mobile programming guide control a broadband-connected TiVO DVR from their iPhone or iPod touch. It's part of the new i.TV Remote Control Framework that opens the app to third-party development.
  • Developers hack out new apps at iPhoneDevCamp
    Nearly 600 people descended upon Sunnyvale, Calif., this past weekend for a collaborative iPhone-developer conference that complements WWDC for some and replaces it for others.
  • iPhone 3GS gets jailbroken, hack available online
    The first jailbreaking application for the iPhone 3GS -- purplera1n -- is now available.
  • Apple patching serious SMS vulnerability on iPhone
    Apple is patching a serious SMS vulnerability in the iPhone, a security researcher said.
  • Report: Apple seeding iPhone 3.1 beta
    Apple has reputedly started distributing the beta version of iPhone 3.1 to developers, along with the updated version of the Software Development Kit.
  • In UK, O2 to hobble free iPhone internet tethering
    O2 says it will disconnect iPhone owners who use the new internet tethering feature in the iPhone 3.0 update without signing up for its bolt-on service.
  • iPhone 3.0 opens up new features for developers
    Apps that take advantage of the new developer tools in the iPhone 3.0 OS are beginning to appear in the App Store. Here are a few that caught our eye.
  • Analysis: An IT take on iPhone 3.0
    You've heard about copy-and-paste, Spotlight searches, and other consumer-friendly iPhone 3.0 features. But there's plenty in the update for corporate types, too.
  • Hands on with iPhone 3.0's Spotlight
    The new iPhone software adds enhanced search tools. Dan Frakes shows you how iPhone 3.0 makes it easier to find information and content on your mobile device.
  • How I use iPhone 3.0's Spotlight search
    Rob Griffiths explains how he uses searching on the iPhone, using Spotlight in iPhone OS 3.0.
  • Apple releases iPhone 3.0 software update
    First unveiled in March, the iPhone 3.0 software is now available for download, delivering 100 new features and enhancements to iPhone and iPod touch users.
  • PCalc calculator app ready for iPhone 3.0
    PCalc 1.6, arriving on the App Store Monday, has been built for this week's iPhone 3.0 update, adding support for copy and paste to the calculator app.
  • Palm gets friendly with Pre hackers
    Palm appears to be giving tacit approval to groups trying to hack the Palm Pre and Palm's new handset operating system -- a sharp contrast to Apple's relationship with iPhone hackers.
  • Analysis: What Apple's WWDC moves mean for business
    After a Worldwide Developers Conference keynote that saw a Snow Leopard preview and more developments on the iPhone front, Computerworld's Ryan Faas looks at the week's news from an enterprise perspective.
  • AT&T tight-lipped on MMS, tethering
    MMS and tethering may be part of the iPhone 3.0 update, but AT&T won't be ready to support them when the software ships next week.
  • Racing toward an iPhone app
    WhippleHill had a great idea for an iPhone app for its education customers, but not much development money to get it done. CIO.com looks at how they combined their business acumen with some Stanford students' iPhone smarts to develop a new app on the cheap, although it still took six months.
  • iPhone OS 3.0 adopts some BlackBerry-like security
    With the forthcoming iPhone 3.0 update, the iPhone is moving a bit closer to enterprise requirements, according to InfoWorld.
  • Mac hardware figures to be MIA at WWDC
    If you're expecting a Mac hardware announcement at this week's Worldwide Developer Conference, history is not on your side. But that's not to say hardware will be totally absent from Monday's keynote.
  • WWDC Preview: What we know, what we expect with iPhone 3.0
    As WWDC nears, rumor and speculation about the forthcoming iPhone 3.0 software are coming fast and, dare we say, furious. Dan Moren takes a look at what we know, what we don't know, and what we'd really like to know about the new update.
  • Apple thwarts app piracy ahead of iPhone software release
    According to a beta tester of the iPhone 3.0 software, the forthcoming update will no longer let you re-downlad iPhone apps you've already downloaded.
  • Apple tests push notifications
    Apple is starting to test the push notifications feature promised for the upcoming iPhone 3.0 update.
  • Apple: All new apps must work with iPhone 3.0
    Apple sent out an e-mail to iPhone developers Thursday, telling them that all new apps submitted to the App Store must work with the upcoming version of the iPhone OS.
  • Ex-Sony employee: iPhone game development 'better than PSP's'
    Apple's iPhone hasn't even been out for two years yet and already iPhone games, like Metal Gear Solid Touch, Super Monkey Ball, and Wolfenstein 3D are comparable...
  • Apple seen readying huge Wi-Fi boost for iPod touch, iPhone
    Apple seems to be laying the groundwork to introduce high-capacity, low-power 802.11n Wi-Fi to both the iPhone and iPod touch, Network World reports.
  • Stanford offers free downloads of its iPhone development class
    Stanford University has begun offering free video downloads of the lectures for its iPhone Application Programming class.
  • 2009 Apple Design Awards now accepting entries
    The Apple Design Awards 2009 is now open for entrants -- the deadline is May 4 2009.

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