Whether you’re waiting in a dentist’s office or standing in line for Hannah Montana tickets, you need to stay in touch with the world around you. I suppose you could ask another human being what’s the latest news, but come on, this is the 21st century.

This is where your iPhone comes in.

read it here artoftheiphone.com

Natuba is a new photo sharing site that targets iPhone users with an emphasis on mobile uploading. It comes from Richard Yoo, a former CEO of Rackspace and Serverbeach.

iPhone users with Natuba accounts can add their snapshots to the site by emailing them to a special address.

read it here techcrunch.com

Readdle, the leading provider of the book and document reader services for the iPhone and iPod Touch, announces its plans to release a native iPhone application for storing and reading office documents and eBooks on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Readdle is a web-based application that allows transfering, organizing and viewing documents on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

read it here readdle.com

(openPR) - Copenhagen, Denmark (May 6, 2008) – A new iPhone web application will allow users of TraceWorks’ Headlight marketing management software to keep an eye on the performance of their campaigns wherever they are.

Headlight is web-hosted software that streamlines everything from media planning and digital asset management, campaign deployment and campaign measurement – online and offline. And it only takes five minutes to learn.

read it here openpr.com

Payless Car Rental, a low-cost rental car company providing exceptional value to travelers, is one of the first car rental agencies to build a customized version of its website for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

“Payless saw the need to create a slimmed-down version of its new website for the iPhone and iPod Touch community,” said Jeff Lin, Project Leader of Payless’ web marketing strategy team. “Payless’ iPhone interface adds convenience and loads up faster than a full website would on an iPhone or iPod Touch,” he added. “By pointing their iPhone or iPod Touch to http://www.PaylessCarRental.com , iPhone and iPod Touch users can book a car in just three easy steps.”

read it here prnewswire.com

A beta version of a McAfee virus scanner for the iPhone and iPod touch has appeared online, according to reports.

The application is named iVirusScan (iPhone link), and has allegedly been installed and uninstalled by a number of users.




read it here ipodnn.com

SHAPE Services released Mobiscope for iPhone to allow Apple handset and iPod Touch users to get into George Orwell’s shoes in their spare time. Activities like monitoring office work in real time and controling the safety of the children, aged relatives or pets are now available at your fingertips, literary.

read it here intomobile.com

Let’s face it. The included iPhone weather app pretty much blows. No offense, but other than the six-day high and low and an icon for the outlook, it doesn’t do much.

read it here zdnet.com

Google just released a new interface for the iPhone/iPod Touch that lets Google Apps users easily access everything they need in an integrated environment.

This new interface lets you use applications like Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and other services that aren’t associated with Google Apps like Google Reader, Google Notebook, Google News and Blogger.

read it here zdnet.com

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ActiveStrategy demonstrated the first enterprise performance management application for the iPhone, ActiveStrategy Pulse™ (PHOTO: http://www.activestrategy.com/software_solutions/iphone.aspx) at the company’s annual international client conference this week in Philadelphia http://www.activestrategy.com/events_and_news/conferences/index.aspx. ActiveStrategy Pulse for iPhone is the first ActiveStrategy product optimized to run natively on a mobile device. ActiveStrategy Enterprise software allows business users to keep in close touch with the strategic performance of their business, making it an ideal enterprise application for the iPhone.

read it here businesswire.com

SugarCRM is bridging the distance between mobile phones and PCs with a new version of its Web-based customer relationship management software now available for beta testing.

read it here pcworld.com

Dating DNA has announced a full-featured online dating system for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Just like online dating is shifting away from traditional dating sites such as Match.com and eHarmony to social networks like Facebook and MySpace, so too are many people moving to their cell phones for interacting socially on the Internet.




read it here blogs.zdnet.com

I’ve been working on learning Japanese over the last two years, and have been making a better stab at it recently. What I realized would be helpful is a quick translation tool on my phone from English to Japanese. I tried whipping one up with the Google Language API.

Try out this iPhone Translator in your browser or on your iPhone.

read it here mikebrittain.com

We admit it, we’re all in love with the iPhone here in the Qype office.
Its shininess, its touchscreeniness, and its general cleverness has completely won us over. So it’s no surprise that we’d want to build a special iPhone-friendly version of everyone’s favourite review site that takes full advantage of all that shiny touchscreeny cleverness.

read it here blog.qype.com

If you’re in the market for a web-based GTD solution, Nozbe is one worth checking out. It provides a solid project management solution with contexts, projects, tasks, optional due dates and next actions, and it does it without a cluttered interface.

So why am I blogging about a GTD website on TUAW? Well, mostly because of iNozbe.

read it here tuaw.com

Widgetbox, home to the largest community of widget makers and users, today announced its iPhone widget gallery, which extends the world’s largest gallery of widgets to the screens of millions of iPhone users around the world.

“Widgets represent a largely untapped opportunity for businesses who need to reach their constituencies in new ways,” said Will Price, chief executive officer at Widgetbox.

read it here earthtimes.org

Unless you’re in Korea, the MySpace experience hasn’t evolved much visually. Mobile users have it even worse with a stripped down version that cuts out a few features in the name of being quick to load and working better on small screens.

read it here webware.com

Last week, I was surprised (as I hear many others were) to learn that Microsoft has a mapping feature as part of its “Live” web-based services.

Now, the Microsoft Virtual Earth blog—hosted on Windows Live Spaces, no less—has announced that Live Maps is now compatible with Safari, both the desktop and mobile versions. This means it can also be accessed via iPhone or iPod touch.

read it here arstechnica.com

Terabitz announced the launch of a new iPhone (News - Alert) home search application that allows real estate industry professionals to access property listings, photos, local neighborhood information, recent sales and driving directions while on the go.

Terabitz, a venture-backed technology company, provides brokers with the tools, content and features they need to position themselves in their respective markets.

read it here tmcnet.com

ESPN owned Cricinfo in association with Plusmo comes up with the first full-fledged cricket widget, Mobicast for Apple’s iPhone.

Mobicast will allow the iPhone users to access Cricinfo’s famous, live, ball-by-ball updates, scorecard, match schedules, news, photos as well as podcasts from various experts.

read it here telecomtiger.com

The Associated Press announced Monday it will further cut fees paid by struggling newspaper members and will develop an advertising-supported service that will deliver stories and photos to advanced cell phones, including the iPhone.

read it here washingtonpost.com

Yet another site has crafted an iPhone-specific version of itself—this time we’re talking AOL’s mobile search portal.

It breaks up search results into those for the Web, Images, and then a separate section for local results. Is it any more usable than Google (NSDQ: GOOG) or Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)’s search platforms?




read it here informationweek.com

Now, for the first time marketers can reach the highly desirable iPhone user demographic with iPhone-optimized landing pages using a new platform framework introduced today by ion interactive. The ion LiveBall iPhone framework gives marketers another channel-optimized opportunity by taking advantage of the iPhone’s superior mobile web user experience. When users click on an ad from their iPhone, they’re delivered the very best landing pages possible, one which is optimized for the iPhone and more likely to convert users into customers. For iPhone users, it means zero to minimal scrolling or zooming on ads - less ‘point and flick.’

read it here prweb.com

A new iPhone app has been released called ‘Outalot’ the concept of it is quite simple, all you do is tell Outalot where abouts you are and it will tell you the nearest restaurants, bars, and movie theaters, including show times.

read it here iphoneyabber.com

Email Filters
A lot of you guys read the emails every day as your primary method of keeping up with the site. But this can get crowded if you have a lot of busy friends. If there’s stuff in there you don’t really read every day (*ahem*twitter*ahem*) you can turn that off now.

read it here blog.iminta.com