Aidan Malley and Prince McLean, AppleInsider
A mobile development author has discovered a mechanism in Apple’s iPhone software that would allow the company to blacklist and remotely deactivate installed apps that have been purchased and installed by users.

Researcher discovers targeted iPhone app “kill switch”
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Prince McLean, AppleInsider
Market research firm Gartner said this week that Apple’s iPhone Firmware 2.0 update meets its criteria for ‘appliance-level support status’ for big businesses, but warned enterprises to approach expanded use of the handset slowly and with close examination.

Gartner approves iPhone for limited enterprise use
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The long wait for official third party apps on the iPhone is over. From the moment the original iPhone was released, critics complained about Apple’s closed platform and insisted that it could not meet their definition of “smartphone” because it couldn’t run software created by other companies. In this segment, we’ll take a look at the Apple’s iPhone software development kit, the App Store, and iPhone 2.0’s third party apps themselves.

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Inside iPhone 2.0: the new iPhone App Store
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