If there’s one area of software that will likely benefit most from the iPhone SDK, it’s probably gaming. To the surprise of many, myself included, Apple decided not to include even a single game on the iPhone or iPod touch (even the very first iPod had a hidden version of Breakout).

So, of course, game developers are pretty psyched about bringing titles to the iPhone and iPod touch, both because of their wide popularity and because of all the unique features available on the platforms, such as the multi-touch interface and accelerometer.

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Executive director Apple Inc. Steve Dzhobs in the opened letter apologized to the first buyers of iPhone, purchasing a telephone for $599 USD. and gettings a bad bargain there $200 USD., Reuters reports.

The day before, after two months after entering of iPhone sale, a company declared a decline prices on a vehicle from 8 Gb of memory on $200 - with $599 to $399 , that caused the numerous complaints of clients. “Our first users trust us, and we must deserve this trust”, - Steve Dzhobs declared and promised, that all first buyers of iPhone would get a credit in size of 100 ????. in an onlayn-magazine company.

We will remind that in February concluded of Apple world acceding to the American company Cisco Systems Inc. about the use of trade mark of iPhone. An agreement provides for, that both companies can use the name of iPhone for the products in the whole world and that both sides will give up any lawsuits to each other concerning this brand.

Apple Announces iPhone 2.0 Software Beta

Includes SDK & Built-in Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync

CUPERTINO, California—March 6, 2008—Apple® today previewed its iPhone™ 2.0 software, scheduled for release this June, and announced the immediate availability of a beta release of the software to selected developers and enterprise customers. The iPhone 2.0 beta release includes both the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) as well as new enterprise features such as support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync to provide secure, over-the-air push email, contacts and calendars as well as remote wipe, and the addition of Cisco IPsec VPN for encrypted access to private corporate networks.

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Great news if you’re in the UK and a fan of BBC TV programming.  The BBC’s iPlayer service for the iPhone and iPod Touch has gone live - which gives on-demand streaming access to all of the Beeb’s most popular programs.

The UK media outlet explains that the Apple-friendly version works by streaming a 516Kbps H.264 video feed over the website; as it’s limited to just a narrow set of devices, no Flash plugins or software development kit support is necessary.

You do need a WiFi connection to enjoy this of course - Edge will not cope.  And the BBC’s site identifies if you’re outside the UK - and in that case you’re out of luck for any of the TV / video content.

The BBC has said they’re working on an international version, but there’s no timeframe for when that will launch as yet.  I’m hoping it will be sometime soon, as I’d love to be able to start catching episodes of Top Gear, and getting up to speed on the latest, greatest British comedy shows …

Via: Apple Insider

If you’re enjoying watching the latest Flash videos on your iPhone, don’t expect it anytime soon. On the shareholder meeting Apple CEO Steve Jobs said, that Adobe Flash will not be supported by iPhone anytime soon.

Steve Jobs claimed that the full-blown PC Flash version “performs too slow to be useful.”

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