iPhone update 3.0 Improvements

iPhone and iPod Touch users will now gain cut, copy and paste features, thanks to the forthcoming iPhone 3.0 update. The new software will offer over 100 new applications/features, and it is expected to be released this summer. Another big win for long-suffering iPhone users: MMS, or Multimedia Messaging Service, support. This enables you to send and receive photos, contact information (using the vCard standard, which will automatically add it to your Contact list), audio files and locations. The new Messages application not only supports MMS, but it can also forward and delete messages, either individually or multiply. Landscape orientation is coming to all key applications. When you rotate the iPod Touch or iPhone sideways, the new functionality will enable you to input using a larger keyboard in Mail, Notes and SMS. The new release will be a free update for all iPhone 3G users, and will also work on the original iPhone — though Apple cautions that certain features, such as MMS and stereo Bluetooth support, will not work on the original model. A software update for the iPod Touch will cost $10, much as the 2.0 release did.

Space Shuttle Discovery Launch

Space shuttle Discovery is on pace for a Sunday launch after NASA engineers repaired a leaky gas venting system. The leak had canceled a planned launch on Wednesday. NASA is hoping that the seven-member crew can take off around 7:40 p.m. Sunday on a mission to the international space station, where they will deliver supplies needed to expand the station's crew to six people. The shuttle crew will be delivering the final parts needed for an expanded solar energy power system that will allow the station to double its crew to six people. The crew will also be dropping off Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, who will replace NASA's Sandy Magnus on the space station. The shuttle also will carry a replacement for a failed unit in a system that converts urine to drinkable water. The crew, led by commander Lee Archambault, is expected to board Discovery at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

Coast Guard ending search tonight

The search for Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, NFL free agent Corey Smith and former college football player William Bleakley is to be called off tonight after unsucessful eforts in finding them. Nick Schuyler, was found alive and sitting atop an overturned boat about 40 miles west of Florida's Gulf Coast on Monday afternoon. He is the only man out of the four that went on a fishing trip together that has been found. Schuyler, who, like Bleakley, was a former University of South Florida football player, told his Coast Guard rescuers that the boat they were in was anchored Saturday evening when waves overturned it. Schuyler told rescuers that all four men clung to the boat for a time but then became separated. Schuyler says that he last saw his three friends at 2 a.m. Monday and says that him and the three others were all wearing life vests. After days of searching and about 24,000 square miles of ocean scanned, the search is scheduled to be called off at sundown Tuesday, or around 6:30 p.m. ET.