As expected, Apple has posted a new iPhone firmware today. With the European iPhone launch well underway, the new firmware is now an official part of the iPhone community. As you’ll probably recall, the iPhone v1.1.2 firmware basically adds extended language support with special character sets and keyboards. More notably, the iPhone v1.1.2 firmware gives UK iPhone users access to The Cloud WiFi HotSpot network. Oh, and it patches that TIFF security hole that’s been exploited by all jailbreak solutions. More —>

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germans lined up to buy Apple Inc.’s
iPhone as it made its European debut Friday, with the company hoping to replicate the success the combination phone, music player and mobile Web browser has seen in the United States.

Apple hopes to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008, helped by the launch of the iPhone in Europe, then in Asia next year. It goes on sale in Britain later Friday. The company has already sold more than 1.39 million since it debuted in the United States on June 29.

In Germany, the phone went on sale at more than 700 T-Mobile shops. One store in Cologne opened just after
midnight to some 350 would-be buyers already lined up.

Johannes Krause, 32, waited for nearly four hours to get inside, but said it was worth the wait. He said he had wanted to his get his hands on an iPhone since it was announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in January.

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The native application requires that users “jailbreak” or hack their iPhone to run third-party applications. More —>

Visto announced that it will provide access to corporate mobile email
on the Apple iPhone across Europe. Closely following on the heels of
the availability of Visto Mobile for the iPhone in the US, the company
has extended its support to those regions that are actively selling and promoting the Apple iPhone.

Using Visto Mobile, iPhone users will be
able to securely and easily access push corporate email without
downloading any additional software to the iPhone or requiring any
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