Apple might be hurting its App Store by driving away its key asset – the app developers. Its heavy-handed handling of the store, with restrictions and even NDAs on rejection letters, might just drive programmers into the welcoming arm of the competition.

Facebook’s released a new version of its app for the iPhone. Version 2.0 of the app is closer to the full version in featureset, making up for the initial disappointment users must have felt about the first Facebook for iPhone.

Screens of the new MobileSafari for the iPhone OS 2.2 have leaked. Registered developers had early access to Apple’s new souped up mobile phone browser.

Hong Kong now officially has unlocked iPhones for sale – legally. Apple seem to have taken a different tack in the country, where usually it insists on tying the phones to an official carrier.

The iPhone is finally coming to China, but likely missing a key feature – the Internet. China Mobile wants Apple to strip both 3G and Wi-Fi from the device; a puzzling decision indeed.

The Apple iTunes App Store has been a phenomenal success, with 100 million downloads taking place in just the first 60 days of operation. The iPhone and iPod Touch Software Development Kit has made it possible for anyone to become an application developer, and some of these independent developers are making an absolute fortune. So, how do they do it?

Not that Apple needed another problem to plague iPhone 3G users, but it announced that the included iPhone power adapters pose a shock hazard, and therefore are recalling all of them sold since mid-July in the U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico and several Central and South American countries.

The launch of the highly anticipated Blackberry Bold was delayed yet another month- being scheduled for a November launch instead of October.  A likely reason being AT&T wasn’t at all ready to handle the influx of 3G data usage that the iPhone brought. 

Security firm Sophos has reported a malware package hidden in the guise of a cute penguin game for the iPhone. Malware writers are using a popular iPhone game to infect PC users.

The upcoming launch of the first Android-based handset will garner its own hype undoubtedly, but will it match the frenzy that surrounding not only the first generation iPhone, but the 3G version as well?  Most likely, it won’t, but it’s because of some fundamental differences in the two and doesn’t mean that one is better than the other.