The biggest announcement from today’s WWDC conference isn’t new MacBooks or Snow Leopard, it’s the ability for hardware accessories to communicate directly with software on your iPhone. This means finding, reserving and unlocking a ZipCar with your phone. Or doing blood-glucose monitoring on the spot. The possibilities are endless.

Apple says the iPhone 3.0 software detailed today will be available “this summer”. Here’s how you should decipher that: There will be a new iPhone out this summer.
I find it hard to believe Apple would allow consumers to run out and check out the new Palm Pre without first causing some necks to crane [...]

Apple will be hosting an event today at 1pm PT where they will announce the features of the upcoming iPhone 3.0 software. (You can follow a live blog of the event on Macworld.)
For those not a member of Apple fandom (or a shareholder), here’s what this means:
For the business, the event is aimed at keeping [...]

Okay, I’m finally jealous of another phone. Palm just announced the Palm Pre and it’s clear they’ve done their homework. The Pre is everything you’ve come to expect from a sophisticated mobile device – easy access to communication, media, apps and web in a touch interface – but refines it by improving the human-machine interactions [...]

Newsweek talks about how the right app at the right price is making some serious coin for iPhone developers. We’re talking six to seven figures in less than a year. The real story is how Apple, using their learnings and successes from the iPod and iTunes eco-system, have built an incredibly ubiquitous and low-barrier distribution [...]

teehan+lax helps out the iPhone app developer in you with a handy PSD containing all the essential iPhone UI elements.

Finally Wordpress has launched a (very useable and full-featured) app for the iPhone that lets users write, edit and post entries on the go. Combined with the ability to post photos taken with my iPhone, I expect to be posting a lot more often now.
I’ll have a massive link up post that’ll cover a [...]

I got to to start thinking out loud more often about the sites I want to see re-designed. Following up my (non-verbalized) gripes about LinkedIn for iPhone and BBC News, both sites launched recent updates that knock it out of the park. Simple HTML-based, big-text, great use of negative space — a web junkie couldn’t ask for [...]