No likely winner has emerged yet in the Apple-Google dispute over Google Voice. There appear to be only losers so far, writes Christopher Backeberg, and they are the American iPhone users...

No one can deny that some of the apps available for mobiles are nothing short of brilliant. However, almost all of the apps you can find are monetised so badly that I am wondering if they're being marketed sensibly.

The plethora of iPhone apps is an excellent case in point. Here we have the most popular smartphone ever, with 40 million users worldwide. The number of apps they can pull from the Apple store has passed the 50,000 mark. It's almost certain that the number of iPhone app downloads will pass one billion some time this year.

Full location awareness and information is in the pipeline for Hello Vino, an iPhone app launched in June to help people choose the right wine.

AT&T's LBS app - AT&T Navigator - is now available on iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS.

More than a million iPhone^TM 3GS units were sold within four days of the new model's launch, and six million customers downloaded the new iPhone 3.0 software within five days of its release.

Sygic's turn-by-turn navigation application is now available on the Apple App store for Australia & New Zealand, and Southeast Asia - including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.

There has been a surge of interest in location-based services (LBS) over the last year or so, according to Ted Morgan, founder & CEO of Skyhook.

Networks In Motion (NIM) has announced that its Gokivo application is available on the Apple App Store.

The three "super phones" coming onto the market have all received great reviews and won over a good share of fans. However, the overall opinion seems to be that Nokia and Palm still have a way to go if they really want to dent Apple's hefty share of the market, reports Christopher Backeberg...

iQlink, Sky Technologies UK Premier Partner, now enables SAP users in the UK to access SAP applications via Nokia and Android Smartphones as well as via iPhone.