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Apple Courts iPhone Developers

Releases inexpensive software development kit

By Laila Weir, Newser User

Posted Mar 7, 2008 2:00 PM CST

(Newser) – Apple is opening up the iPhone to outside programmers. The company said yesterday it would release a $99 software development kit, and the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has committed $100 million to invest in developers' work, reports the New York Times. iPhones so far... Read full story »

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