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Apple recently announced their latest attempt at adding to the current crop of iPhone ‎applications: the iPhone SDK.‎

The apps for iPhone download SDK is designed for programmers who want to work with the iPhone ‎downloads quickly and integrate it with existing iPhone download able applications. The SDK (software development ‎kit) facilitates this integration.‎
The excitement caused by the announcement (and this is only a beta run) has been ‎enormous, with top industry players making announcements straight afterwards: game ‎producers PopCap and Capcom have registered their intention to use the iPhone apps and SDK ‎to start producing popular games like Galaga and Peggle as soon a possible. Six ‎Apart’s CEO admitted that it’s already using the iPhone SDK and developing a “native ‎iPhone application for TypePad”. All exciting stuff.‎
What of the user reaction? The numbers speak for themselves. One hundred thousand ‎downloads and one million views of the launch video are testament to the excitement ‎the iPhone SDK has caused.‎

Fans of free music, listen up! Sony have joined the Dark Side. They have teamed with a company that allows free streaming of its entire back catalogue! Interested? You should be. This is a significant advance for the music industry as a whole and an absolute revolution for music downloads.

A one-time staunch opponent of anything that resembled a music download, Sony BMG have agreed to supply their entire back catalogue for users of Peter Gabriel’s We7 site.

A lot of us love music downloads and, frankly, it’s been getting more and more hairy with many of the big players in the music industry clamping down and suing the ‘perpetrators’ who engage in music downloads. Now Sony have sanctioned this aspect of the industry, and this is a landslide victory.

There is some concern that all this free music will affect the sales of legal music downloads, but clearly this isn’t Sony’s – not We7’s – concern.