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While Apple pushes its new "official" iPhone developer program, tech publisher O'Reilly Media is betting that mobile developers will still want to write "unofficial" apps for hacked iPhones. Mac blogger John Gruber points us to a new O'Reilly book, "iPhone Open Application Development," which recently went on sale -- and is currently sold out at Amazon (AMZN). What's the point? While big software publishers are likely to go through the official IPhone developer hoops -- adhering to Apple's soft… Continue

Don’t think for a minute that Microsoft is ignoring the iPhone. In fact, the software giant is probing the gadget for profit opportunities.

Tom Gibbons, head of Microsoft’s Specialized Devices and Applications Group, said the focus would be on extending Office functions onto the… Continue

http://code.google.com/p/gdata-objectivec-client/wiki/GDataObjCIntroduction Google Data APIs allow client software to access and manipulate data hosted by Google services. The Google Data APIs Objective-C Client Library is a Mac OS X framework that enables developers for Mac OS X to easily write native Cocoa applications. The framework handles * XML parsing and generation * Networking * Sign-in for Google accounts * Service-specific protocols and query generation Requirements The Google Dat… Continue

Google has pushed out a new release of its GData Objective-C Client Library that adds support for the Google Contacts Data API and YouTube API. What this means, in a nutshell, is that applications written in Objective-C (including those created for the iPhone) can take advantage of features like uploading video to a YouTube account or directly editing their Google account contacts. In fact, the new GData Objective-C Client Library is completely compatible with the iPhone SDK. Per a Google blog… Continue

Any functionality related to music playback is inaccessible by the iPhone SDK, a new report claims. While the SDK allows access to many other functions of iPhone and the iPod touch, such as dialing, the camera and Internet access, The Inquirer writes that any components connected to iTunes are off-limits, preventing developers from accessing one of the most popular features of the phone, next to web browsing and Google Maps. Apple has not spoken about the restriction, but it is suggested that t… Continue