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At AjaxWorld tomorrow, we’ll be giving a talk about how we built an iPhone application in OpenLaszlo at iPhoneDevCamp a few months ago. The iPhone application is NEWSMATCH. It’s a game that presents items from a Yahoo! News RSS feed, with images and titles. The challenge is to match an image with the headline it illustrates. To play, you click(or tap) on an image, then click (or tap) on a headline. If they match, you’re given the opportunity to read the story. We wrote this app from scratch in two days, using OpenLaszlo. It ran on the iPhone, with very few iPhone-specific modifications, from the very first versions. In this article, we’ll walk you through the progression of NEWSMATCH from an empty application to (almost) the finished product, highlighting how OpenLaszlo facilitates rapid development of iPhone apps.