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Apple reveals slew of new features for iPhone OS 3.0
Apple reveals slew of new features for iPhone OS 3.0
In a special media event held today, Apple previewed the next generation operating system for its iPhone and iPod touch mobile devices. In addition to opening up lots of new functionality for developers, users will also be pleased with new additions and more polish. The event ...
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iPhone OS 3.0's funky new SDK toys
MacBytes.com — ... Staggeringly, more than half of those have not developed mobile software before. So yes, iPhone and touch App developers will be smiling, and allowing access to the port on the iPhone and iPod touch also creates new business opportunities for hardware makers. App developers will now have access to the iPhone's proximity sensor, users' iPod libraries, streaming video and audio via HTTP, system-wide Data Detectors and there are even built-in VoIP APIs. Ars Technica points out that a particularly useful new API "allows developers to call up a drop-down sheet for sending an email ...

Apple and AT&T make further offers to clear stock of iPhones
Apple Technology — ... These moves come just over a week after Apple previewed its upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 upgrade coming this summer. The offers are most likely attempts to clear out existing inventories of iPhone 3Gs ahead of an expected  ...

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