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Texas Instruments has released a new iPhone app called Plus Financial Calculator. The app isn’t cheap. It costs $14.99 USD or $17.99 AUD. It will work both on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Here’s the description of the app:

Click HERE for the apps store link.

MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) is now available to AT&T customers on the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. To enable MMS, you need to update the carrier settings. This can be easily done by connecting your iPhone to iTunes and clicking on Check for Update for your device. You’ll get a message like this one below:

Click [...]

Following the Metro Paris Subway application, and Layaar, there is another Augmented Reality app, which will be released for the iPhone 3GS. Currently they call it: RobotVision. The Bing-Powered app allows users to use their camera to point at places of interest, and allow them to receive information at what they’ve pointed at. Also, Tweets, [...]

Silicon Alley Insider has reported that the Social Networking service Loopt, has entered a partnership with AT&T, which will permit the company to monitor a user’s location (With Permission), after installing the Loopt application on the iPhone. The application can run a process in the background, to enable the service to track your location.
Via a [...]

Facebook released version 3.0 of their iPhone application. Over the past year, it has been downloaded 12 million times making it the 2nd most popular free app on the iPhone platform in 2008 behind Pandora.
Facebook 3.0 for iPhone brings significant changes. They include:

The changes bring vast improvements and more features to the app. The [...]

Yahoo Calendar can now sync with your iPhone. However, you have be running software 3.0 or higher. Also, you will be switched to Yahoo’s new version 2 of their Calendar.
Setup is pretty simple. Here’s the run down:

Go to your iPhone settings application.
Tap “Mail, Contacts, Calendars”.
Tap “Add Account”.
Tap “Other” and then tap “Add CalDAV Account”.
For [...]

The name Layar might not seem like a name you would recognize as being a leader in mobile technology, but with the announcement today that it’s Augmented Reality software was released to Android phones, soon to be released to iPhones, only time will tell if we can say the same about it in a year’s [...]

From a rough Google translation, as well as elements of Babelfish and other translation websites, a report from iPhoneclub.nl was deciphered, and the information was certainly quite interesting. It seems that Apple has released 4 versions of it’s Tom-Tom GPS program inside New Zealand’s App Store.
Importantly, here are the prices for the GPS application, and [...]

International Business Times has announced that the Chinese wireless service, China Unicom has purchased around 5 million reigion specific iPhones from Apple, and will release it to the public around next month.
China Unicom, the potential exclusive distributor of iPhones in China, has poured 10 billion yuan ($1.46 billion) to buy 5 million units from Apple, [...]

Currently, it seems that an 8GB iPhone 3GS is probably going to be released quite soon. According to the site ‘Boy Genius Report’ the company Rogers Wireless, is currently shipping the new phone to it’s stores. From the screenshots, it seems that there is an internal notice of sorts to its staff that they are [...]