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Micro-blogging is getting a bit of a lift today as Six Apart announces a new application – well, new to the iPhone at least. Six Apart’s BlogIt application for Facebook is now available for the Apple iPhone. Is this just the beginning of a long line of applications that will propel us forever into the world of twitter-dom?

Forrester has released a list of 10 reasons why Apple's iPhone is no friend to IT.

You can probably think of a few already: the prohibitive cost, the first-gen factor, and fidelity to AT&T.

Zoho has just released Creator Mobile, which enables users to access private or shared Zoho Creator files from their handhelds.

Creator Mobile currently supports IE, Opera, Safari, and WAP browsers. And while it may be fairly browser-agnostic, it's pretty partial to the iPhone, aesthetics-wise.

Try the bad-boy out at the Zoho Creator Mobile subsite.

Apple has announced that its beloved iPhone -- which has worked so hard to punish steadfast iPhone unlockers in the past -- will be availing itself to outside applications (a la Facebook). This means developers will be able to create little widgetey apps that run native on the iPhone when installed. (Current iPhone-specific apps -- like Typepad or EditGrid's solutions, for example -- have to run through the phone's Safari web browser.)

The software toolkit will be available this February. (Note that the toolkit will also work for the iPod Touch, which is pretty much the iPhone without the calling capabilities.)

The Baltimore Sun calls this move a step closer to "realizing [the iPhone's] potential as an ultra-portable mini-computer."

Ironically, a Microsoft employee predicted this was the direction mobile would be taking just last July. In 10 years or so, it could be bye-bye laptop.

So what if installing third party software on your iPhone may void your warranty. A blogger's got to do what a blogger's got to do, and what could be more enticing than the ability to blog from one's iPhone?

EditGrid, a leader in online spreadsheets, today announced the launch of the iPhone Edition of its Web-based spreadsheets software. The news broke this morning at the Office. 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.

Building on its initial foray into mobile (inclusion of Apps into the iPhone), Google digs deeper still, adding its Search and Maps functions to the Planet 3 mobile portal.

As the head of a company that’s pioneered the mobile application and on-device portal space for the past seven years, I’d like to welcome the Apple iPhone to the party. Sure, it arrived late, but the iPhone arrived in style.

As the Google vs. Microsoft battle hits the road warrior, many are expecting the first major outbreak of the iPhone to be fired with Google Docs and Spreadsheets - which as of this week, works on Safari.

While there wasn't much excitement at this week's WWDC for the Apple Fanboys amongst us, Apple did flip the script and reveal Safari for Windows.