A tip has surfaced that Foxconn is running behind on production of the iPad 2 and iPhone 4. The tip claims that the shortage is thanks to hard to find parts and labor and will reduce the number of devices hitting the market.

The Twitter mobile site has been refreshed to look more like the iPhone app. The big difference between the iPhone app and the mobile site is that the mobile site is upside down compared to the app.

The iPhone app Viber has been updated with a new feature that users will appreciate. The app is now offering free text messaging with version 2.01.

The Twitter for iPhone app has been changed a bit for better usability. The app has ditched the QuickBar feature that let the user see trends on the top of the time line.

A major update for Twitter on iOS devices like the iPhone has added new features. The app looks better and it has a new QuickBar that lets you keep up with trending topics.

A new chat app is in the app store called Yobongo. The app is a location-based chat client that lets you type it up with folks close to you.

Steve Jobs has promised a fix for some flaws in the iPhone with the iOS 4.1 release set for next week. Jobs says that the bugs fixed include the proximity sensor bug, Bluetooth bug, and the iPhone 3G performance issue.

Yesterday marked the official launch of the Twitter for iPad application and today we have learned that the iPhone and iPad apps will soon get push notifications. The update will allow real-time notification of updated to tweets.

The iPhone OS is ahead of Android on the global market despite being overtaken in the US in Q1 2010. Android is predicted to catch up with the iPhone globally by the end of 2010 or early 2011.

A new beta version of iPhone OS 4.0 has surfaced that hints at tethering finally being offered by AT&T. We heard the same rumblings before and they turned out to be false so keep the salt handy.

According to Patrickj of Just Another iPhone Blog:

Your own main timeline – which for some reason is placed below a general ‘Everyone’ view on the main sections page of the app – offers a good summary view of posts from people you subscribe to, as shown in the screencap at the top of this post.  As you browse this view, you can easily use one tap on the main body of a post of interest to jump to that individual post, or tap the blue arrow at the right of a post to view it in an inline browser.

Macworld writes:

Twitterrific 2.1 brings a virtual ton of new features and fixes to this powerful Twitter client. Headliners include support for recording and posting video for 3GS owners, as well as a new account picker tool for quickly finding friends’ usernames for @mentions and direct messages. There are a number of new tapping shortcuts, including options to copy the text of a tweet, add a link to Instapaper without visiting it, and shortcuts to reply or re-tweet with a double – or triple-tap.

GyPSii delivers an all-in-one mobile social networking experience.  It allows people to instantly capture and share what they are actually doing, building a multi-media virtual diary on their world – the places they have been and the things that they have done.

GyPSii users can automatically update their status across other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook via the GyPSii Connect service.

The launch of our iPhone app, according to Shane Lennon, SVP Product Management and Marketing at GyPSii, also marks the launch of the company’s next generation of user experience (UX).

The GyPSii iPhone application is currently available in English and Chinese.

[via RealWire]

In an e-mail earlier Tuesday, app developer Loren Brichter said Apple quoted this part of the company’s guidelines as a reason for the decision:

“Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive, or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod Touch users.”

However, Apple relented Tuesday, according Brichter.

“Great news! 1.3 has now been approved! Alright Apple!,” Brichter tweeted late this afternoon.

Tweetie 1.3 itself offers the long list of features and improvements include:

• Post pictures with Mobypicture and yfrog (in addition to TwitPic)
• New “Link” button to add to Instapaper faster, and repost individual links
• View full-size profile images
• Dark theme
• Ping.fm integration
• Tweetshrink integration
• Twitlonger integration
• German localization
• Russian localization
• Allow DMs up to 255 characters
• Many UI tweaks
• Play back Song.ly links
• Option to use “RT” syntax
• Better feedback for posting a Map link
• Improved international date formatting
• Detect invalid profile images
• Fixed account sorting
• Fixed profile image URL decoding
• Fixed links with # anchors
• Fixed “(null)” problem when using bookmarklet
• Fixed problem with @ character in password field

[via CNET]

“Today it’s voice-to-SMS; tomorrow will be voice to any text application on the phone,” said Giuseppe Staffaroni, Promptu’s CEO. “Tweets to Twitter, email, Facebook status, calendar events, reminders – our technology is a perfect match. And, because it’s server-based, and 100 percent automated – no humans behind the scenes – it is scalable to millions of users.”

According to the news, ShoutOUT will soon be submitted to the iPhone App Store. The non-English version will also be distributed soon for iPhone users in Europe.

[via PR Newswire]

Just in case you missed about this service, it’s taken from Twitter’s site:

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages.  People write short updates, often called “tweets”  of 140 characters or fewer.  These messages are posted to your profile or your blog, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter search.

Summizer’s features include:

• Search Twitter.
• View popular topics on Twitter.
• Save your searches.
• Check for updates.
• View links inside Summizer.
• View more tweets.
• Reply to users.
• Retweet tweets.
• Refresh saved trends from tweet view.
• New tweets highlighted.
• Safari button in web view.

Have Twitter account? Please leave it on the comment box below, I will follow you. And here is my Twitter account: http://twitter.com/budip.

Yes, you can try Summizer before you buy.

[via Steve Rubel]

Above is the picture

was taken with his iPhone and sent via TwitPic, a third-party service which a lot of Twitter users use to send pictures to their contacts, to Twitter.

[via VentureBeat]