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• Yesterday at the South by Southwest Interactive 2009 conference going on in Austin, Texas, Kevin (”Digg”) Rose confirmed that Apple (AAPL) will finally introduce a copy-and-paste function in the upcoming iPhone update, TBA on March 17th (iPhone 3.0). Rose’s claim was caught on tape in between a taping session of his show, Diggnation. Derek Steen, an Australian photographer, was the first one to get the video up to the public. Here is what he said the C&P experience will be like:

1. You double tap on a word (or, presumably, an insertion point)
2. A kind of magnifying glass appears with quote marks on either side of the selection
3. You drag the quote marks forward or back to surround the section you want to work with
4. You choose one of three buttons: Copy, Paste or Cut

• Beyond Copy and Paste, the iPhone 3.0 software will match any technology that the Palm Pre is said to be offering in their upcoming release. Rose says he was told by a “friend who has been right before” that, in general, iPhone 3.0 will offer every function that the Palm (PALM) Pre promised but the iPhone didn’t yet have.
• Rose has a decent track record with breaking Apple news. He has to filter through a lot of noise, as he receives many stories from ‘friends’, who may or may not be trying to just get some attention from him with a false rumor.

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