Remember that cool handwriting recognition software that I mentioned some time ago? Well, it seems that the HWPen application that was developed by Hanwang.com.cn has been acquired by Apple for use in the next major firmware release for the iPhone - the iPhone OS 2.0 firmware. Hanwang claims that Apple has acquired their handwriting recognition software. [...]

Don't get too excited just yet. Yes, the next version of the iPhone OS will feature the ability to embed YouTube videos directly into a webpage. What you get is an embedded YouTube video playing on the website like you'd expect from your desktop. But, there's a catch. You can only view embedded YouTube videos [...]

Everything's a bit muddled in the iPhone firmware world. Will the iPhone v1.2 "Aspen" OS that's used in the iPhone SDK emulator be released prior to the iPhone v2.0 firmware that's due out in June? The iPhone v1.2 Aspen firmware could actually be the firmware that will serve as the iPhone SDK-compatible v2.0 firmware - [...]

Well that sure was a mouthful. Sure, there are those minor changes to the iPhone UI that may or may not materialize, but there are also some serious changes in store for the iPhone v2.0. The iPhone SDK, freely downloadable from Apple, is proving to be an invaluable source of upcoming iPhone features. Remember, the iPhone [...]