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Apple makes iPhone dev deal — with Microsoft?

I just love the politics of these claims, if they (unlikely as it seems) turn out fact, not fiction.

A report this morning claims Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer will share the spotlight with Apple CEO Steve Jobs at Apple’s forthcoming Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) — to announce a joint move on iPhone development…

On the principle that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, Apple has invited Microsoft to develop tools PC users can employ to build approved iPhone applications.

A Barron’s report states that Global Equities Research analyst, Trip Chowdhry, claims 7 minutes of the June 7 keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been blocked off for a presentation by Microsoft (MSFT) to talk about Visual Studio 2010.

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Mozilla Preps Firefox Home App for the IPhone

Mozilla is working on an iPhone application called Home that will let users access their desktop Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and the tabs from their most recent browser session, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday

Firefox Home relies on Mozilla Sync, a service that synchronizes personal information such as bookmarks and browsing history between two desktop browsers equipped with the Sync add-on. By installing Firefox Home on their iPhone, Sync users can also access their browser data when away from their desktop, according to Mozilla.

The Home application also includes Mozilla’s so-called Awesome Bar, which lets users start typing any term and then uses an autocomplete function to find possible matching sites from the browsing history.

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