The iPhone User Guide

The concept is simple, once installed and configured, Longitude will automatically update your location on Google latitude at an interval of your choice. Even if you’re not interested in letting your friends stalk you, the app can be actually used as a good alternative to Mobile Me’s “Find my iPhone” function. The fact that it’s a widely compatible webapp will also give you the advantage of being able to track your iPhone’s position from another phone, which is impossible with Apple’s solution.

Logitude costs $2.99 and only works on jailbroken iPhones (get it from the RockYourPhone installer)

The new-look app store is cleaner, whiter, and brings the most important information closer to the top. The new screenshots section of the app store is immediately apparent (and welcomed). It’s not live for every app page, but it is working for most of them.

Consume is a usage monitor for the iPhone and the iPod touch that can monitor your voice, text and data consumption on your mobile phone, and, in some areas, also your home broadband provider and teleco. Consume works with 44 different providers in six countries, and the next version of the app, version 1.2, will add support for AT&T Wireless in the U.S.

Mashable writes: Alas, it’s only in the patent stage according to Engadget, but, nevertheless, the glorious future may hold a universal docking option for users of various flavors of iPod and iPhone. There’s no guarantee Apple will actually turn it into a real product, but we hope they do — mostly for the sheer entertainment value of poking whatever spongy substance looks to be forming the base of the dock.

That magical substance — we imagine it like some sort of cross between Play-Doh, Sticky Tack and prosthetic skin — would conform to the shape of whatever Apple mobile device you throw at it (iPod nano, touch, iPhone, etc.) to provide a power charge without requiring one specific preordained form factor. The dock would then be able to keep an imprint of the last device used or be reset to accept a different device.

Microsoft is reportedly developing iPhone applications for both Bing and Windows Live Messenger, according to Neowin. Sources close to the Windows Live and Bing divisions at Microsoft confirmed this information to the site. Both applications are likely to be released alongside the upcoming Windows Live Wave 4 updates due in approximately March 2010.

Neowin understands that Windows Live is working aggressively to move its applications onto the iPhone. Last week Microsoft principal group program manager David Raissipour confirmed to Cnet news that “We are actively working on it” when questioned over the Bing iPhone plans. Apparently Microsoft is adopting the “if you can’t beat them join them” philosophy and will begin to compete multi-platform in order to maintain and grow market share in web and cloud based applications.

Currently, Microsoft has two applications in the App Store: Tag Reader and Seadragon.

AT&T told investors at a USB conference in New York that it will give high bandwidth users incentives to “reduce or modify their usage”. Amidst poor public perception due to a network issues, AT&T has decided put iPhone users who watch video on tighter leashes, according to an Associated Press report.

AT&T head of consumer services, Ralph de la Vega declined to comment on when these “incentives” would happen but said that usage-based pricing for data is inevitable. “We need to educate the customer … We’ve got to get them to understand what represents a megabyte of data,” de la Vega said. “We’re improving all our systems to let consumers get real-time information on their data usage.”

De la Vega says three percent of “smart” phone users are consuming 40 percent of the network capacity with a majority of the high-bandwidth activity being video and audio streaming.

Way to go AT&T…