Tweetie 2.1, an update for one of the most popular iPhone Twitter clients,  has just gone live in the App Store, bringing with it numerous bug fixes and support for Twitter’s new Lists, geotagging and retweet features. And in almost an iPhone Twitter app first, you can now report spam tweets from within the application, thanks to Twitter’s spam API that allows third-party developers to build the system into their applications. The addition of geolocation [...]

Tomorrow is going to be one very busy day for Telstra, with new broadband packages announced last Thursday going live, alongside the first day of their new 100MB/sec cable upgrade in Melbourne, Victoria. Though current Bigpond members can now switch to the new broadband plans, tonight at midnight is when, all going well, the first users will actually be placed onto the new packages. There’s sure to be hiccups during this roll-over period, and without [...]

Google has today revealed in a blog post on the Wave blog information gathered from a limited survey about the hot new communications platform, Google Wave, which is currently invite-only. “We’re thankful that so many people have been willing to try out Google Wave in a host of different areas: personal, business, government, education and even not-for-profit” Aaron Cheang, User Experience Researcher for Google Wave said. “We’ve been glad to see positive responses, especially since [...]

After promising two weeks ago that price changes and plan upgrades were “imminent” Telstra has today unveiled their new packages, which promise to provide more data allowances for cheaper prices, bringing Australia’s main telecomunnications company into line with other offerings from competitors. Telstra is adding 2 new “high usage” plans, which will allow for 100GB or 200GB in downloads that make competitors plans for 30GB look small and pricey, along with an increase of ten [...]

It’s a little known fact, but the team behind WordPress have actually made a download counter, which shows approximately how many times the latest edition of the popular blogging CMS has been downloaded. And tonight, it’s getting close to the 10 million mark if its anywhere near accurate. WordPress 2.8 was only released on June 10 this year, so to reach the 10 million mark in just over four months is a tremendous feat and [...]

Google is rolling out a small user interface refresh to the iPhone versions of their web applications, including Gmail, Google Reader and Google Docs. A spokesperson for Google today confirmed that the Google’s web based iPhone apps have undergone some ‘relatively minor UI changes’ that make it easier for touch navigation. Gradients used throughout the mobile apps now have a blue gradient rather than grey, and tweaks have been made here and there in menus [...]

We all knew Google’s logo ‘Doodles’ were becoming more popular than ever before – with almost a new one every day it seems. Well new figures show that since 2001, Google’s use of the so-called ‘Doodles’ has grown by more than 650%. Since the ‘Doodles’ creation back in 1998, the amount each year seemed to rise and fall between 30 and 60 (apart from 2001 which bucked the trend at 22), usually remaining in the [...]

You just found it is a friend’s birthday. With minutes to go before the end of the day you click on Facebook and send out a quick birthday cake for a dollar. That type of reality has pushed the virtual goods industry to a multi-million dollar market. With the rise in social media virtual goods are becoming a common purchase. Those little batches of pixels are becoming big business. In the United States alone it [...]

Google just announced that votes are now being taken for the final round of the Android Developer Challenge from a field of 200 applications selected from the first round voting. With a total first prize of $250,000, the Android Developer Challenge competition is designed to encourage developers to make exciting and innovating applications for the Google’s Android platform. Categories for the competition include games, education, social networking, lifestyle, entertainment and productivity, and with the top [...]

Just recently we reviewed the Australian version of iPhone GPS application CoPilot. Well today, the company has released an update that brings some close integration with the iPhone’s music controls. You may remember some of the downfalls we spoke about in the review included poor at times GPS performance. Apparently this update fixes some of this ‘lag’ but we haven’t been able to test this yet. Available for free now in North America, UK+IRE, Nordics, [...]