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Some of you noticed and asked us about recent changes we made to Gmail for mobile and a few of our other mobile web apps. If you use the web browser to access Gmail, Latitude, Calendar, or Tasks on your Android-powered device or iPhone, you'll see that we freshened up the look of the buttons and toolbars.

New Web browsers for the iPhone started appearing in Apple's App Store, contrary to the company's previous policy of denying applications that duplicate functionality of its own software. Four new Web browser implementations became available over the last day in the App store. Still, other popular browsers are not expected to follow suit.

With all the attention in the arena of iPhone applications being fixed squarely on Skype for the past few days, it almost escaped my view that Yahoo has finally released their free Yahoo Mobile app, which we reported on in February. The app's release coincides with a revamp of their entire Yahoo Mobile web portal, and is designed to provide a uniform experience across products. The iPhone version has some unique hardware-based features, however, but how does it stack up to Google for iPhone?

As with any computing system when it gets a major overhaul in its operating system (OS), the iPhone 3.0 has some remarkable features but there are some little things that need adjusting, even moreso if one has upgraded to the iPhone 3GS.

The BBC iPlayer will soon bring downloads and live streaming to the iPhone, as well as interactive options and built-in radio support too.

As the name implies, Camera Zoom is a basic app that allows the user to zoom in on a subject with the iPhone's camera. Camera Zoom has one basic function, and it does it surprisingly well.