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PhoneGap released its next iteration last week and it has a variety of changes for developers to take advantage of. PhoneGap has also been contributed to the Apache Software Foundation and, as we have reported before, will be called Apache Callback when it is a full-fledged member of the open source foundation. There is also iOS 5 support and Windows Phone 7 support. What is new in PhoneGap 1.2?

The Web 2.0 Expo's startup showcase, Launch Pad, gave five companies five minutes each to present their product to a panel of experts today and the People's Choice winner was awesome. The judges who cut the field from more than 80 applicants down to 5 were Matt Marshall (VentureBeat), Anand Iyer (Microsoft) and ReadWriteWeb's own Marshall Kirkpatrick.

Members of the audience voted for their favorite product via SMS. Of those who voted, 43% decided that mobile development platform PhoneGap was the winner. We have a summary of the pitches below.