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15 Features Apple Must Build Into iPhone OS 4

It’s almost March. In Apple land, this means that if this year is anything like the last two years, it’s almost time for another Apple event where company executives show off a new version of the iPhone operating system for developers.

So as competitors like Google Android continue to improve, what should we expect in the next version of the iPhone OS? (Which we assume will be called iPhone OS 4.)

For the best ideas, we asked a handful of iPhone app developers and iPhone app investors what they’re interested in working with for iPhone OS 4.

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Google Acquires iPhone Search Application reMail

Google on Wednesday acquired reMail, a popular iPhone application that provides “lightning fast” full-text search of your Gmail and IMAP e-mail accounts.

Terms of the deal were not released. ReMail may not have been a household name, but the app received critical praise and had a small, but dedicated group of users. So what will Google do with this app, will it just kill the technology or has the search giant got something else up its sleeve? Here’s what’s going on:

Back to the Mother ship

Gabor Cselle, reMail’s founder will be heading to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California where he’ll join the Gmail team as a product manager. Cselle has made improving e-mail his life’s works so far. The reMail founder was once the vice president of engineering at Xobni, the popular social networking sidebar for Microsoft Outlook. Cselle should feel right at home with Google since he’s worked on the Gmail team before.

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