Apple's business call

With the addition of Microsoft Exchange, the iPhone is open for business. Image: Apple

Steve Jobs sent a clear message to the technology world Thursday: Apple wants it to view the iPhone as an opportunity, not a threat.

To drive that point home, Jobs gave up the stage for most of Apple's (AAPL) highly anticipated software event at its Cupertino headquarters. Rather than hog the spotlight with his legendary presentation skills and MORE

Apple ships beta version of iPhone SDK

As predicted, the version of the long-awaited iPhone software developers kit (SDK) being released today is still in beta, or test mode. According to Steve Jobs, the finished software will be shipped to developers as a free software update in June. (See Apple's press release here.)

These and other details of the so-called iPhone software roadmap were revealed today at an Apple (AAPL) special event on the company's Cupertino campus.

After several MORE

Apple will build Microsoft exchange into every iPhone

Finally! Eight months after it was introduced, the iPhone is finally getting the e-mail service it deserves. At the Apple (AAPL) special event today, Steve Jobs introduced and Phil Schiller demonstrated the next iPhone update, one that has everything on your IT department's wishlist:

Push e-mail
Push calendars
Push contacts
Global address lists
Cisco IPsec PVN
Certificates and identities
WPA2/802.1x
Enforced security policies
Device configuration
Remote wipe, in case the iPhone is lost or stolen

In the demo, Microsoft (MSFT) MORE

Live blog: Apple SDK announcement

Journalists and others wait for the iPhone SDK event to begin. Image: Jon Fortt

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Apple (AAPL) this morning is announcing details about how it will open the iPhone and iPod touch to outside developers. The company has also promised new details about how enterprises can take advantage of the iPhone, putting it in more direct competition with Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry and Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Mobile MORE

The unfiltered Steve Jobs

Transcripts from Betsy Morris' extended interview with Apple's (AAPL) CEO in Kona, Hawaii, have been posted on Fortune.com. Among the subjects he addresses:

The birth of the iPhone
On market research (or the lack thereof)
Why people want to work for Apple
What if he got run over by a bus?
The devices he chose not to make
His management style
Why recruiting new people is hard
The benefit of owning the OS
Apple's marathon Monday meetings
Story crises at MORE

Yahoo's big gamble

By Yi-Wyn Yen

It's been more than a month since Microsoft announced its initial bid to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion. That's led to a lot of speculations and rumors about what is and isn't happening. But one thing is certain. Yahoo isn't ready to shake hands with Microsoft yet.

Wall Street widely believes that a marriage between the two Internet frienemies is inevitable, but Yahoo (YHOO) says it needs more time MORE

What to expect at today's Apple event

On Thursday, before an audience of industry analysts, tech reporters and invited guests, Apple (AAPL) will unfold its long-awaited "iPhone software roadmap." The event starts at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) in Building 4, Town Hall on the company's Cupertino campus.

So what's going to happen? Let's review what we know and what's been rumored.

What we know:

The "roadmap" will cover the iPhone software developers kit (SDK) that Steve Jobs had MORE