Top iPhone and Technology Related Stories from across the web

When Google CEO Eric Schmidt addressed the mobile industry in Barcelona yesterday, he praised the growth and importance of mobile devices and urged app makers to make it their priority - even ahead of desktop computers, according to today’s Computerworld.com. Hilton’s iPhone apps downloaded 126,000 times

The BBC is set to expand its online operations with a drive into applications for mobile phones, a business that the broadcaster termed a “top priority”. BBC launches its first apps for iPhones

For those of us who want the convenience of instant messaging from any computer equipped with a Web browser, there’s Meebo. Meebo instant messaging app comes to iPhone

Are you a programmer looking for a new challenge? Does the thought of building your very own iPhone app make your heart race and your pulse quicken? Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK

The U.S. International Trade Commission said Wednesday it has voted to began an investigation of Eastman Kodak Co.’s patent infringement complaint against the makers of iPhones and BlackBerry devices. Commission to review Kodak complaint against iPhones, Blackberry devices

Among the list of things for which Apple’s ever popular iPhone is responsible, you can now add “causing a worldwide shortage of memory chips.” Apple’s iPhone Causes Worldwide Memory Chip Shortage

Apple iPhone remains the most dominant smartphone, given its myriads of apps, good for everything.  But, Windows Phone 7 includes Microsoft’s indomitable gaming platform Xbox. Windows Phone 7 will have Xbox Live: iPhone’s no game

A new Mobile Foxtel app for iPhones that offers users an easy-to-access mobile TV experience has been launched exclusively by Telstra. New Foxtel iPhone App Exclusive To Telstra

Opera Software is demonstrating its Opera Mini browser on Apple’s iPhone during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The browser from Opera is better than Apple’s native iPhone browser in almost every way, and is muchfaster. Opera Mini Bests Safari On iPhone

The folks at Aliph have always had good reason to draw attention to their wireless Jawbone Bluetooth headsets. Jawbone Icon headset makes fine use of apps