Apple has released details of a new version of the iPhone OS, with over 100 new features including finally adding copy and paste.
However, another much desired issue - allowing for background tasks from third party applications - remains unresolved, despite rival handsets running Google Android and the as-yet unlaunched Palm Pre able to support background apps.

The lack of copy and paste on the iPhone could soon be a thing of the past if a new web service called Pastebud is as good as it appears.
Although still to be launched Pastebud's creators have put a demonstration of their service on YouTube showing how iPhone users can copy and paste text from Safari into Mail and between web pages.

A college student has developed an open source framework that allows cross-application Copy and Paste on the iPhone.
Zac White says his Open Clip framework uses a shared space on the iPhone that can be accessed by applications to enable Copy and Paste – without falling foul of the iPhone SDK agreement.