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• Workday SaaS apps to gain iPhone client

  Workday customers will soon be able to tap the SaaS vendor's human resources and financial applications from their iPhone, the company announced Thursday.

• With iPhone OS 3.0, Apple opens creativity coffers

  In the wake of Apple Inc.'s preview of iPhone 3.0 software Tuesday, one thing's clear: The level of creativity coming from iPhone developers is amazing.

• Symbian sets aggressive release plan

  The Symbian Foundation plans to release a new version of the operating system every six months, with the first expected to appear in phones at the end of this year.

• Swedes bring MMS to the iPhone

  Swedish company Mobispine has launched iSendMMS, an application that lets iPhone users send MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) messages, it said on Friday on the company blog.

• Apple plans iPhone 3.0 preview next week

  Apple announced Thursday that it will preview a new version of its iPhone software on Tuesday, March 17.

• Cebit: Health monitoring comes to the iPhone

  Heart patients will be able to check their electrocardiogram on an iPhone, using a new system demonstrated by Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany.

• Mozilla backs move to decriminalize iPhone jailbreaking

  Mozilla is backing a move that would nullify copyright infringement charges against people who "jailbreak" their iPhones, a practice that Apple considers against the law.

• Apple: iPhone Jailbreak hack violates the law

  Hacking an iPhone is against the law, Apple has argued in comments filed with the U.S. Copyright Office.

• It's Official: Blackberry Storm Is No iPhone Killer

  The gales of the Blackberry Storm gales just weren't strong enough to wash away Apple's iPhone success. Between its average reviews and customer complaints over bugs and OS stability, the Storm seems to have severely underperformed in customer satisfaction. And now, the latest figures from Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) show that it has underperformed in sales, too.

• iPhone connectivity comes to economy with new Singapore Airbus

  Australian economy class travellers will be the first to benefit from iPod and iPhone connectivity on Singapore Airlines’ newly delivered A330-300 aeroplane.

• iPhone trounces BlackBerry Storm in satisfaction rating

  First reactions from buyers of Research in Motion's newest BlackBerry Storm smart phone have been "lukewarm," and nowhere near the satisfaction ratings of Apple's iPhone, a market research analyst said Tuesday.

• 3G iPhone unlock expected

  The iPhone Dev Team (not the Cupertino version) plans to release the first ever software-based unlock application for the iPhone 3G on New Year's Eve.

• HP enables photo printing on the iPhone

  Hewlett-Packard on Monday launched an application that allows users to print pictures wirelessly from an iPhone.

• IPhone, economy spur better phones, apps

  Just two years ago, the mobile phone market was pretty ho-hum. You had your candy bar phones and your flip phones. There were BlackBerry devices and Windows Mobile phones. Those phones had calendars and contact lists, and a few other apps that were too annoying to use. Few people ever added any new applications to their phones. Surfing the Web was for emergency use only, since it was slow and ugly.

• No Java, Flash for iPhone this Christmas

  There is still a little time left, but it doesn't look like Apple iPhone users will see Adobe Systems and Sun Microsystems get Flash and Java up and running on Apple's handheld device by Christmas.