Apple announced some major updates for the iPhone OS software this week that will become available to iPhone owners in June. The iPhone 3.0 software includes the ability to copy-and-paste, a landscape keyboard, and push notifications. However, none of these updates were as revolutionary as the new features Apple offered to iPhone application developers. The one to watch however is the ability to purchase items within an application.

I recently had the opportunity to sit down (virtually) and have a chat with Kyle Richter and Ian Baird, two iPhone developers who have come up with the game-changing Handshake app for contact sharing on the iPhone, then released the credit card and payments app Transactions which can transform any iPhone or iPod touch into a basic point-of-sale device. We talked about how they came up with the idea of their Transactions application, and they shared their experience of developing for the iPhone.

This is a guest post written by Bo Wang from iPhone app developer house Team iBokan, part of Bokan Technologies, about the lessons learned while conducting a pricing experiment on brick game Galaxy Impact, the company’s first iPhone application.

I want to take a minute to talk about application pricing (on any mobile platform). It is a topic that is important to developers, retailers, and customers alike. So, if you’re curious to hear a developer perspective on pricing, read on after the jump!

From a developer’s standpoint, the rise of application stores offer great promise for their wares and skills. While the trend towards application stores doesn’t preclude developing and selling software on your own, the potential exposure benefits are huge. Of course, it all depends on which wagon developers hitch their horses to. Not every development shop has the time, expertise and resources to develop great software titles for every mobile platform out there. And there’s no small amount of disparate, separate mobile platforms to work with.

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software developers now will be able to create applications that have items for sale within them, such as electronic books or additional levels of a video game

On March 17, Apple unveiled details about
iPhone OS 3.0 software and released the new
iPhone Software Development Kit for developers.

iPhone 3.0 OS, the next generation operating system for the iPhone, iPod touch, and whatever Apple device comes next. New features, new apps, here you will find all the information you need.

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With more than 20,000 apps available for the iPhone, standing out from the crowd is becoming harder and harder for app developers. There are only so many slots in the the top apps lists in the iTunes Store. Discovering new apps is becoming a real problem. But what if apps started cross-promoting other apps, just like they do on Facebook?

Number of people accessing news and information on their mobile device more than doubles in a year.

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Numbers like that help explain the burst of iPhone game/entertainment news here at SXSW 2009, from location-aware fun apps to the Facebook Connect function linking iPhone apps to the social network. But there are also challenges. Those were analyzed at a Saturday SXSW panel featuring Greenstone and three other successful iPhone developers; here are my five favorite takeaways.

Gaming on a mobile phone is a relatively new phenomenon when compared to the decades that games like Pacman and Tetris have been around. However, the mobile gaming industry is exploding, and developers who have spent years creating games for the Mac are now jumping ship to create them for the iPhone instead.

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Entrepreneurs are the key to building a solid economy in any nation. As we all know U.S. economy currently is facing some of the toughest times since the Great Depression. Honestly it doesn’t seem to get any better. The start of 2009 has been pretty shaky with thousands being laid off from their job already. These are tough times, no doubt about that. But these are also times when its time to step up and take a different route rather than giving up and finding yet another boss to work for.

While the iPhone has shown that there is a large consumer market for smartphones, the primary market-driver for the smartphone is – and will remain – enterprises and small businesses.

It’s clear that as mobile devices become more prevalent, and social communities grow online that they’ll take main stage in our personal and business lives.

The surge in mobile commerce is being driven by the adoption of smartphones, and the mobile-friendliness of sites like Amazon, and eBay.

Aside from the obvious missing features — copy-and-paste and multimedia text messaging — the next iPhone needs features that improve usability, such as search functionality and, most importantly, the ability to run third-party applications in the background, developers contacted by Wired.com said. With Apple scheduled to announce details of the iPhone 3.0 operating system Tuesday, hopes are running high that the Cupertino company will address some of these shortcomings.

Music junkies are crazy about their iPhones, and for good reason. Not only is it a phone and an iPod all in one, but several iPhone apps make it easy to find music clubs, hook up with friends at concerts and change plans on the fly.

Mathematica-Erfinder Stephen Wolfram arbeitet mit einem Team von rund hundert Mitarbeitern an einer neuen Generation von Suchmaschinen. Wolfram Alpha soll Antworten auf beliebige Fragen berechnen. Es liefert nicht eine Liste von Dokumenten, sondern konkrete Antworten.

“Digital Natives” sind diejenigen Jugendlichen, die von kleinauf den Umgang mit dem Computer und den Neuen Medien gewohnt sind. Für sie ist die ständige Vernetzung und der permanente Austausch mit ihren Mitmenschen über Messenger, Social Network und Handy normal — und sie brauchen ihn.

Traffic monitor Net Applications has released their mobile web traffic numbers for February and they are surprising to say the least.

Twitter’s web interface is simple and intuitive but lacks a few features that can make it much better. In this article, you’ll read about 10 excellent user interface features that can enhance the Twitter web experience.

Für jüngere Menschen ist das Internet wichtiger als der Partner oder das Auto. Das ergab eine Studie der Aris Umfrageforschung, die der IT-Branchenverband Bitkom in Auftrag gegeben hat. "Die unter 30-Jährigen würden eher auf das Auto oder ihren aktuellen Lebenspartner verzichten als auf Internet oder Handy", so Verbandschef August-Wilhelm Scheer.

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"2009 werden wir den Durchbruch des mobilen Internets erleben"

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