Thanks to ViaTalk, you can now use your iPhone to manager your home phone service. This includes integrating services that include call forwarding, voicemail access, special routing options, the ability to view call logs and return calls, and control over security and privacy settings. With the mobile control panel interface, you can control your home phone service handily. The app is now available at the iTunes app store for free.

Expect another growing controversy surrounding this app soon as far as approval and denied iPhone apps are concerned. This time, the Google Wave was spotted conspicuously at the iTunes App Store and you can get it for only $0.99. The thing here is that this app is not endorsed by Google. And with that in mind, don’t be surprised if you see it disappear soon (if not yet). So if you want to risk it, download and see what happens. If not, well, just wait for the real thing and from Google too!

Our list of iPhone GPS apps keeps growing. Next in line is Magellan RoadMate App for iPhone. It works on iPhone 3G or 3GS and can provide spoken street names.

It is a one time purchase and there are no monthly fees involved. In addition to text-to-speech feature Magellan’s iPhone app also provides highway lane assistance, in-app music control, pedestrian mode, and onboard maps so you can use it without any data service.

You can already download Magellan RoadMate App for iPhone for US and Canada (iTunes) and on the way are other versions which include just Western US, Eastern US, and Europe.

Magellan RoadMate App for iPhone costs $80.

For the pregnant women and expectant mothers out there, don’t worry about letting your folks and friends know about you or your to-be-born baby’s status. There is now an app that does all that for you in the BabyBump iPhone app which comes with an integrated interface for popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. With the app, you can now post updates via your social networking account when you make use of the kick counter or contraction tracker. These two apps make sure that anything from stage of labor to contractions counts are up to date on your profile, keeping your followers updated on your progress.

The BabyBump app is from Alt12 Apps and is now available at the iTunes App Store.

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Okay, we admit to still being a little bit unsure about OnLive’s pledges for high-end, high-resolution, lag-free gaming on any ‘ol device with bandwidth, but we want to believe, and so it’s with skeptical optimism that we report on news of mobile implementations. The company has demonstrated an iPhone app in which users are able to play against gamers on a PC or on the company’s MicroConsole — despite not having a single button to press. It’s interesting stuff but, according to OnLive’s CEO Steve Perlman, it’ll be awhile before we see this in the wild, as plans for initial mobile apps will be limited to checking game stats and watching live gameplay. However, we presume it’ll be a small step from there to flip the switch and two-way communications, meaning that perhaps by the time Modern Warfare 3 hits the wires you can keep gaming even while you’re commuting.

[Via Engadget Spanish]

Apple really has to get its act together. This concerns policies on approving apps. Take the case of the Bobble Rep-111th Congress Addition app. Supposedly under the developer license agreement, Apple forbids ridiculing public figures. This caricature app was originally rejected but later on approved since they deem caricatures as harmless. So there are loopholes as you can see in their policies but if this was the case, why didn’t they consider that in the first place before rejecting this bobble-head app which you can now get for $0.99 at the app store? A little consistency could really save them the criticism!

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GPS tracking guys at Zoombak just recently launched the Zoombak mobile app for the Apple iPhone. At first you may think the app is for locating your precious iPhone – but it is not. It is just an interface to locate the Zoombak devices you already own such as the one in your teenage son’s car. More of this gadget »

CoPilot Live has released another update to their navigation app for the iPhone. The latest update brings a number of improvements, including enhanced GPS performance as well as iPod controls within the application. This means that users can now control their iPod through the CoPilot Live application, making the app easier to use. This automatic update is free to all existing users. More of this gadget »

 

Back in June, popular Twitter desktop app TweetDeck made a splash when it launched its iPhone app. It was significant, as it was the first Twitter iPhone app to integrate with a desktop version and it provided a very real challenger to the Tweetie iPhone app.

Since then, there have not been major updates to the app, while Tweetie() got a whole new version. Now TweetDeck is fighting back with its first major update (v. 1.1.1), one that includes full integration with Facebook.