Amazing news from John Doerr, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), the Venture Capital company which invested into start-ups like Amazon, Sun or Google: KPCB starts a $100M investment initiative called iFund, to fund “market-changing ideas and products that extend the revolutionary new iPhone and iPod touch platform”.
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Good news from the iPhone Software Roadmap event in Cupertino: All business users who use (or want to use) the iPhone in an enterprise environment can be delighted: Apple licensed ActiveSync from Microsoft an will offer a direct connection between the iPhone Mail, Calender and Contact applications to a Microsoft Exchange server.
This strikes a blow against Apples competitor RIM with their Blackberry-solution: Within a Blackberry solution all messages are redirected through a server owend and managed by RIM itself – a real nightmare for everyone responsible for data security and protection within a company. Apple offers a direct connection between the iPhone and the Exchange server of the business customer himself with their new iPhone-solution.

Apple starts a series of tutorials on Rails 2.0 development on Mac OS X Leopard. A great introduction in the elegant web developer platform on the Mac. And great to see, that now also Apple starts to promote the open source framework actively.