If you're used to writing apps in a Windows/Linux world then you probably don't have a ton of experience with objective-c. Apple's main language of choice can be frustrating for a lot of developers, and it can be hard to justify purchasing a Mac solely for developing iPhone apps. Luckily several different projects are starting to come out that allow iPhone development on Windows platforms and in languages other than objective-c.

Flash may not be coming to the iPhone browser any time soon, but Adobe has been putting a lot of effort into proving support for building native iPhone apps using the Adobe Flash Platform. Apple's iPhone developer license forbids using runtimes or JIT compilers alongside apps to run things not written in objective-c, but Adobe has gotten around this by using LLVM to do Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation. This should allow apps written in ActionScript 3 to run at/near the speed of a similar app written in objective-c.

CS5 will support iPhone development on all supported platforms (both Windows and Mac).

Adobe Labs - Adobe Flash Professional CS5: Applications for iPhone

Developing for the Apple iPhone using Flash

Back in July, Business First announced the planned merger of two health-care companies that specialize in wound-care products, RecoverCare and MedaStat USA (article here).  That merger has taken place and according to the release (article here), "The combined company is a leading distributor of wound care and bariatric equipment and solutions to the acute and long-term healthcare markets...".  igNew has been hired to assist in growing MedaStat's custom built software solution that will act as the foundation for the future business solution that will become the backbone of RecoverCare, LLC. 

I just watched a great video filmed at the Business of Software Conference in 2008.  The keynote speaker is Seth Godin.  I don't know a lot about him but this presentation was great.  If you are a young software developer looking to start your own business, the VP of IT at your company or a business leader you need to watch this video.  He tackles the idea of marketing in this day and age and how a software company can do it better with a smaller marketing budget (I would imagine the same could be said for a lot of different companies).  Enjoy!!

http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2009/07/seth-godins-talk-from-business-of-software-2008.html