Weekly wrapup, 7-11 July 2008 (iPhone 2.0 update)

by Steve O'Hear

July 13th, 2008 | Posted in last100 weekly wrapup | No Comments

Here’s a summary of the week’s digital lifestyle action on last100. Note that you can subscribe to the weekly wrapups, either via the special weekly wrapup RSS feed or by email.

iPhone 2.0 and App Store launch

Inevitably, this week’s last100 coverage was dominated by the launch of the 3G iPhone and the accompanying App Store and first generation of official third-party applications.

Here are the links in chronological order:

Apologies to all of our readers living outside of Steve Jobs’ Reality Distortion Field. Normal business – to some degree – shall resume next week! (Ed. In the interests of balanced reporting, we’re trying very hard to get our hands on some non-Apple mobile devices.)

last100 is edited by Steve O'Hear. Aside from founding last100, Steve is co-founder and CEO of Beepl and a freelance journalist who has written for numerous publications, including TechCrunch, The Guardian, ZDNet, ReadWriteWeb and Macworld, and also wrote and directed the Silicon Valley documentary, In Search of the Valley. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.