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With Apple saying only that it will unveil its “latest creation” at a media event in San Francisco next week, speculation about music, gaming and a new iPhone operating system is adding to the tablet buzz that has been building for weeks. Ever since Apple last month reserved the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for Jan. 27, analysts have guessed it was time for the computer giant to roll out its version of a tablet computer. Apple CEO Steve Jobs reportedly scrapped early versions, but touchscreen advances from the iPod and iPhone seem to have paved the way for a tablet some have dubbed an iPhone on steroids. Many industry…

Finally. Over a year after iPhone users got their native Yammer fix, Android has an official Yammer application available on Android Market. The application, while still fairly basic, comes with support for most of Yammer’s core functionality. If you use Yammer and you have an Android phone, you’ll want this app. We can’t link directly to the app because Google still hasn’t launched a strong web presence for the Market, but you can find it by running a query for “Yammer” from your phone. The new application is actually derived from the codebase of Yowl, a third party app for Android that Yammer acquired a couple months ago. CEO David Sacks says …

Topics: Humor , iPhone With over 100,000 applications available , there’s no shortage of ways people are using the iPhone’s features. But how about on the coffee table or in the dining room? A new website is offering sets of coasters featuring the iPhone’s default application icons . According to the website, the coasters are genuine app icon enlargements from the iPhone 1.1.4 firmware. They also have a non-slip cork backing and are heat resistant. If you or someone you know is a big iPhone lover, this would be a great one to add to the holiday wish list. iPhoneAppsCoasters.com is offering three sets including: “Core Apps” featuring SMS, Calendar, Phone, Mail, Safari and …

Topics: Cool tools , iPhone , First Look , App Review The company’s teaser page still says “coming soon,” but eagle-eyed reader Jason spotted the free Zipcar app [ iTunes link ] in the store today. We’ve been waiting for this app for quite a while, and it’s exciting to see it in action. The app provides Zipcar members with a location-based search for nearby Zipcar locations, allowing them to drill down to the individual garages via a map view. Reserving a car is as easy as clicking one big green button, and the app allows you to sort available cars by time, type…

In what may be a move to appear like less of a walled garden, Apple approved the Spotify steaming-music application for the iPhone this week. Spotify announced the news Friday with gratitude for the iPhone maker. Spotify offers legal and free access to a library of music through its streaming music player. The company’s dream is to let everyone listen to whatever they want, whenever they want, and wherever they want. Getting its application into the iPhone App Store brings the company one step closer to a dream come true. “Spotify on the iPhone will include many of the features our users enjoy on the desktop, with the added advantage of letting you listen to your playlists even when you haven’t got a …

Last month, Google Voice’s iPhone application was rejected from the iPhone app store, a controversial move that the FCC is looking into . Now, it appears that Google may be working to circumvent Apple and AT&T, or at least seriously force their hand, by developing an iPhone optimized web application for Google Voice. According to The New York Times , “Google says it is readying a replacement for the Google Voice app that will offer exactly the same features as the rejected app—except that it will take the form of a specialized, iPhone-shaped Web page. For all intents and purposes, it will behave exactly the same as the app would have; you can even install it as an icon on…

INQ’s unique take on the featurephone just got a significant facelift in the form of the new INQ Mini 3G and the INQ Chat. Leaving behind the INQ1’s last-gen looks, the new INQ Chat offers a QWERTY keyboard in an E71-esque chassis, 2.4-inch screen, GPS and a 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera, while the Mini 3G takes up the T9er’s mantle with a slim candybar form factor, 2.2-inch screen and 2 megapixel camera. The big deal of course is still the ( award winning ) software side, which already includes features such as Skype, Facebook and Windows Live Messenger …

With 5.2 million more iPhones out there, more people are gonna want get the goods for their shiny new super-phones. We’ve got just the thing - whether it’s games coming to or already in the App Store , on quick browse through this edition of the iPhone Weekend Warrior might just give you your fill of iPhone updates. Games To tilt or not to tilt? id Software wants your feedback. Link The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition now on App Store. Link Because the office is not enough - Paper Toss: World Tour. Link Pac-Man : Remix coming to iPhone. Link The cake was not …

Topics: iTunes , Apple , App Store With the App Store celebrating its first birthday , there is a fair amount of news coverage, and with Michael Jackson ’s memorial service being broadcast, his fans are sure to be hitting iTunes up for some of their favorite songs. So it stands to reason that today is probably not a good day for the iTunes store to be having problems. Don’t you just love Murphy’s Law ? Reports have been steadily coming in for the past few hours that users are unable to download songs, searches are timing out, and the App Store is not working properly from the iPhone. Several users have also posted threads on the iTunes discussion board with connection problems. I myself had troubles with …

Sometimes you’re not that concerned about features; you just want to get the job done as fast as possible. Often, after trying out many applications, I’ve settled for the simple and quick ones instead of the complex, slow apps. If you’ve been looking for a very quick way to update Twitter , Facebook , or both, from the iPhone, Duo might be just up your alley. Sure, it doesn’t offer as much as Tweetdeck, but it updates both Twitter and Facebook with the least possible amount of clicks. Duo is available for free in the iTunes store ; check out a short video of it