Cupertino, Calif. - Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in an open letter on the company's website on Wednesday that the company will in February offer tools to developers looking to create third-party applications for the iPhone. "Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone," Jobs wrote. "We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users."

A majority of young Scandinavians believe that the next generation cell phones that double as portable MP3-players are soon going to make iPods a thing of the past. It is one of the interesting findings in a survey of 3000 young people from Sweden, Norway and Denmark between the ages of 15 to 35. The study was commissioned by the cable network MTV and Finnish telecom giant Nokia and conducted by the Swedish consumer research company Cint.