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The keynote is scheduled at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, June 9, 2008 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. The event runs from June 9 to June 13.
Apple plans to showcase its OS X Leopard and OS X iPhone during over 150 sessions and labs. Mobile developers are to get a taste of the the first iPhone track, allowing them to work with Apple's staff on applications for the Multi-Touch user interface, animation technology, rich set of APIs, programming interfaces for Core OS, Core Services, Media and Cocoa Touch technologies. And so on.

Still, there's no word on the 3G iPhone, the gadget that everyone's been looking for for some time now. Apple is known to be the company that simply loves the idea of “secret”. On the other hand, Apple Store is all out of iPhones, so betting on the 3G iPhone being unveiled at the WWDC (if not sooner) could be a safe bet.

It's either that or the fruit company is thinking about axing the project altogether. And that's simply not a valid possibility.

Research In Motion is to launch a new model of its BlackBerry handheld email device which is intended to compete directly with Apple's iPhone and other popular smartphones.

The new handset, the BlackBerry Bold, is aimed not only at RIM's core business user base but also at the ever-growing retail market for such multi-function phones.

The Bold is the first BlackBerry to run on high-speed 3G mobile networks that allow it to offer a host of multi-media features.

Features include a two megapixel camera which can also be used to record videos, a video player to watch films and manage music collections, and also the most vivid display ever seen on a BlackBerry screen.

In addition, its design pays a certain homage to the iPhone, with a sleek black design set off by a silver rim around the edge of the handset.

In the US, RIM appreciates that the iPhone is probably its biggest threat when it comes to corporate users.

The Canadian-based company hopes the new handset will encourage business users to upgrade the handsets they currently have, rather than jump ship to the iPhone.

However, in Europe and Asia, the Bold should help RIM increase its subscriber base because 3G networks are more common than in the US.

Two-thirds of BlackBerry sales still come from the US and Canada, something which RIM is hoping will change with the launch of the Bold.

In a separate development, RIM, in tandem with Thomson Reuters and the Royal Bank of Canada, launched a $150m venture capital fund to invest in third-party applications and services for the BlackBerry to speed the development of additional services.