Apple has made two important iPhone announcements in the past week, but both of them have gone rather unnoticed. The first is the complete revocation of the NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) by which iPhone developers were previously bound. Though there are still some limits on exactly what developers can disclose, Apple appears to have responded to the general hullabaloo that surrounded the original terms of the NDA.

The other big announcement is the seeding of a new build of the iPhone 2.2 software to developers. Aside from a few previously-disclosed updates, such as a reworked Safari interface, the only major functional improvements seem to be in the Maps application.

Happy October, everyone! Wait, why aren’t you smiling? Lack of push notifications got you down? Me too. When Scott Forstall first announced these push notifications in June, I was all giddy inside. It was an inventive way to allow applications to continue their purpose while not running, without consuming those ever important system resources. To more »

If you’ve been missing the MMS feature of your previous mobile phone since you’ve shifted to the iPhone 3G, and you got frustrated when Apple forgot to include this feature in the recent 2.1 software upgrade, then you have a reason to rejoice. JuiceCaster, which is more popularly known for its mobile social networking platform, is bringing the picture messaging feature to the iPhone via its new app, called Flutter.

Basically, Flutter lets you send free, unlimited picture messages, and even geo-tagged location of the pictures, to any mobile phone in the world at no extra cost to you except for the cost of an SMS message. The SMS message will contain the link to where your picture message was stored in JuiceCaster’s site. From the JuiceCaster hosting site, your recipient can then view the picture message using their iPhones or any other mobile phones.

As promised by Apple at Tuesday’s Let’s Rock event, the iPhone 2.1 software update is now available for iPhone.

The update includes many bug fixes and improvements.

Now that the much anticipated Apple Let’s Rock event is only two days off, let’s talk Let’s Rock rumors. There are lots of possible goodies for the event, so let’s hope that Apple is up for the challenge and fulfills everyone’s hopes.

Read on for the full list of possibilities.

The Last.fm development team has provided a new sneak peek at the Last.fm iPhone app 2.0. It offers the ability to listen to music based on tags you enter, check out artist bios and concerts in your areas, and even add concert dates to your calendar.

All in all, it offers great new features and integrates with the other Apple apps on the iPhone, and a whole lot more. Looks like a worthwhile update.

Video sneak peek after the break.

Since the iPhone SDK announcement, developers have been clamoring for the ability to have their applications run even after being exited (currently, all apps quit upon returning to the home screen, with the exception of Apple’s Mail and iPod/Music apps). Knowing what a battery hog apps are, Apple didn’t provide such a solution, instead announcing more »

As Apple announced briefly during WWDC, the Push Notification API has been released to a handful of devs, according to CrunchGear. The Push Notification service allows 3rd-party iPhone applications to stay connected to servers which allow notifications to be displayed when new information shows up. This is akin to Apple’s iPhone apps, which display an more »

It seems that iPhone 2.1 still has more secrets to spill. We’ve heard of the new GPS features, and even a faint whispering of copy and paste functionality, but MacRumors is reporting more. Buried deep inside of the latest beta, references to new iPod Touch can be found. The article says that “iPod1,1″ is the more »