If you are even remotely interested in developing an iPhone app, this may interest you. Starting later this month, Apple engineers will tour different cities of the world to talk about iPhone Application development.

read it here www.ucapanart.com

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 06, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/—Think Services, organizers of the Game Developers Conference and the Independent Games Festival, have entered a new partnership with high-profile iPhone game publisher ngmoco. The deal will add a $10,000 ‘Best iPhone Game’ prize to 2009’s Independent Games Festival Mobile ( http://www.igfmobile.com), and increase the maximum amount of prizes in the hotly contested indie mobile competition to a record $30,000.

read it here www.marketwatch.com

Web-apps promised to make native mobile applications a dying breed. But, with web-apps requiring a constant wireless connection and the need to run within a mobile web browser, native applications are still running strong. But, with the iPhone 2.1 OS, Apple has taken the first step to making web-applications just as powerful and convenient as natively installed mobile applications.

read it here www.intomobile.com

Apple has introduced a number of extensions to the JavaScript programming language to assist iPhone Web developers. Including new fast lookup functions, native SVG graphics processing, CSS effects, database storage and full screen mode. These new functions will transform the way Web and AJAX developers look at the iPhone for application development. This session introduces the JavaScript extensions, and shows practical examples of their usage.

read it here symbian.sys-con.com

Apple has decided to discontinue its controversial nondisclosure agreement preventing developers from discussing iPhone programming. Apple announced this morning via a posting on the front page of its iPhone developer site that it has decided to discontinue the non-disclosure agreement preventing developers from discussing iPhone programming.

read it here www.infoworld.com

InfoWorld has been all over this week’s official launch of Android, the new smartphone platform from Google. With its slick interface and open application platform, Android shows every sign of giving Apple’s iPhone a run for its money when the first phones begin shipping in late October.

As my colleague Tom Yager points out, however, “If you can’t get coders on board, you’re sunk.”

read it here weblog.infoworld.com

The situation regarding Apple’s App Store for the iPhone is getting weirder by the day. Several applications have been rejected from the App Store based on seemingly dubious claims such as duplication of functionality (even though they didn’t duplicate anything), or alikeness to default applications.

read it here www.osnews.com

Apple has launched a new free iPhone Developer University Program. The program was created for higher education institutions interested in introducing curriculum for developing iPhone OS applications.

read it here www.iphoneatlas.com

Don’t like the games on your iPhone or iPod Touch? Well, you’ll soon be able to make your own, if you pass the world’s first iPhone videogame course.

The iPhone Game Development curriculum has been created by London-based Qantm College as a way of teaching anyone with some experience of videogame design how to expand their skills into iPhone videogame creation.

read it here www.reghardware.co.uk

Apple sparked controversy in mid-2004 when it demonstrated Dashboard, a feature included with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), which shipped the following year. Dashboard delivered always-on, mini-applications in the form of “widgets” that could be quickly accessed via a keyboard command or other invocation.

read it here www.iphoneatlas.com

September 19, 2008 (Computerworld) A week after Apple Inc. rejected his iPhone application and barred it from selling on the App Store, developer Alex Sokirynsky has turned to a little-known, but still Apple Inc.-approved, distribution channel to sell his work.

Sokirynsky, who in August submitted his Podcaster application to Apple for inclusion in the company’s App Store—the company’s online iPhone mart where programs can be downloaded, some for free and some not—received the rejection notice last Thursday.

read it here www.computerworld.com

Former colleague and iPhoneDevCamp founder Raven Zachary tweeted that Trism developer Steve Demeter reported earning US$250,ooo in revenue since 11 July 2008 during a VC panel at the Mobilize conference.

read it here blogs.zdnet.com

Software developer Mike Ash just outlined the 22 steps he went through to get his application onto your iPhone.

Development for iPhone is an incredibly difficult process, much more difficult than it needs to be. The arduous process of shipping an application for the Mac suddenly appears to be absolutely straightforward after going through this mess. I really don’t envy those companies who have staked their success to the iPhone platform. The amount of arbitrary hassle, uncertainty, and delay in the process can only feel vastly worse when your livelihood depends on it.

read it here news.cnet.com

Photon Infotech, an IT company that develops e-business solutions with SOA, Open Source, Web 2.0 and Mobile technologies, reportedly has announced the company is going to establish centers of excellence in iPhone (News - Alert) Application Development.

read it here iphone.tmcnet.com

As we’ve said before, Apple’s iPhone app store is Apple’s app store, which means it can block any app it wants for any reason it wants. That’s the deal, and developers knew that from the beginning.

But Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone app vetting strategy—a black box, with little to no communication with developers—continues to reinforce the need for a better set of guidelines, a better feedback loop, and some kind of appeals court.

read it here www.alleyinsider.com

Michael Rueger and John MacIntosh are proud to announce that their Squeak iPhone/Touch port is now available for download. The source code, along with installation instructions and other useful resources, is available at a new website: http://isqueak.org.

As had been discussed earlier, Michael notes that due to the legal requirements of the Apple Developer agreement at this time, they cannot distribute a fully functional Squeak VM via the Apple Store.

read it here news.squeak.org

Demystify what it takes to build a web application that can scale to the millions of users in the iPhone ecosystem. Learn about the need for pre-development architecture and the requirements for the deployment and ongoing maintenance environment for the applications. In this session we will discuss real-world examples of how good ideas can go completely wrong.

read it here symbian.sys-con.com

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 10, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/—Netbiscuits is offering a free edition of their popular Netbiscuits Mobile Web Development Platform that includes the recently added iPhone and Google Android support. Already a preferred self-service platform used by many leading companies such as eBay and Yahoo!, the Netbiscuits’ Free Developer Edition will be available starting today for developers looking to build lively mobile websites that are utilized for non-commercial use.

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Apple has posted a new build of the iPhone software development kit (SDK) to its deveoper website.

The new build is intended for applications targeted at the final build of iPhone OS 2.1 for both the iPhone and iPod touch.

read it here www.iphoneatlas.com

Another in the continuing series of discussions with iPhone app developers here on the Business Blog @ Intuitive.com. I encourage you to check out some of the earlier interviews too. This one, with Tucker Roth, is a bit different because he just jumped into the full set of topics rather than following the Q&A script. I hope it’ll mix things up nicely.

read it here www.intuitive.com

We know that everybody (well, at least everybody with an iPhone) has been waiting anxiously for our native app. We are getting closer to a public release, but we didn’t want to keep those of you who just can’t live without it waiting any longer: we are actively looking for Brightkite users who would like to test and give feedback on our native iPhone application via a limited beta test.

read it here blog.brightkite.com

About 2 weeks ago one of my team members, Robin Eggenkamp, mentioned there would be some iPhone dev ‘conference’ this month (iPhone Dev Camp, Amsterdam), originally at the building exactly opposite of the building where our own office is. Since I’m always interested in anything related to development I agreed to tag along. I expected it to be the kind of event where some talks are organized with a small hands on lab where some expert developer teaches newbies how to get up and running.

read it here jdevelopment.nl

For all iPhone & iPod Touch Devs out there, go check out iDevKit.com. They have tons of code samples for iPhone & iPod Touch. The community is home to many iPhone Developers you all know like: spicychicken(Customize), _BigBoss_(me! BossPrefs), MxWeas(MxTube), Erica(Erica’s Utilities) and many more!

read it here sleepers.net

At a recent This happened, Simon Oliver (Hand Circus) demonstrated to us the process of creating his iPhone game Rolando. I will write about this more once have the video of the presentation online, but what is very clear is that as a gaming & entertainment platform it is really going to take off. Indie developers can now create applications themselves and sell via the app store direct to a large customer base.

read it here www.pixelsumo.com

SAN FRANCISCO—By creating games and other programs for the iPhone, software developers hoped to find millions of new customers. But they didn’t expect to feel muzzled.

The software development kit that Apple Inc. distributed to programmers bound them to not discuss the process of creating programs for the iPhone. Companies typically waive such legal restrictions once the product in question launches, but Apple didn’t. And it won’t say why.

read it here www.latimes.com