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Questia Library Plus iPhone app. Credit: Questia We'll spare you the obvious "there's an app for that" joke. But you can get a library's worth of books on your phone. Questia, an online research portal for students, announced its application today for reading books, articles and periodicals on an iPhone or iPod Touch. The app costs 99 cents for 5,000 public-domain books and a week of unlimited access. After that, users can buy a two-week subscription for $9.99. There are so many things wrong with this we don't know where to start. For one, students don't like to buy things....

"Back in October, the startup tech firm Silent Circle ruffled governments' feathers with a "surveillance-proof" smartphone app to allow people to make secure phone calls and send texts easily. Now, the company is pushing things even further-with a groundbreaking encrypted data transfer app that will enable people to send files securely from a smartphone or tablet at the touch of a button. (For now, it's just being released for iPhones and iPads, though Android versions should come soon.) That means photographs, videos, spreadsheets, you name it-sent scrambled from one person to another in a matter of seconds." In an age where we can pretty much assume we're being monitored 24/7, is this a good thing? Or is this another tool for some really terrible people to do some really terrible things, but now with an added layer of privacy?

That's how big Google's vision is for its Wave social-networking/search service, which will have apps created by independent developers who sell them at a Google app store.

Company makes an iPad app publishing system that allow users to build fully customizable apps with real-time update options, allegedly to make the development process as easy as starting a WordPress/WISYWIG editor.

Kindle for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad can now display embedded video and audio clips for Kindle e-books, courtesy of the latest upgrade to the app. Read this blog post by Lance Whitney on Digital Media.

Google unveiled a marketplace of business software to help to spur the adoption of its own suite of productivity applications.

Could Hearst iPhone Apps Bring Backlash? - 03/15/2010

Rupert Murdoch's new weekly pricing plan for The Wall Street Journal's mobile app looks steep, but it should reinforce the value of subscribing to the paper.

Publishers disillusioned with purpose built mobile apps look to web technologies and HTML5

Amazon is offering a free Kindle reading application for phones running Google's Android software.

Interesting in that it reminded me to think about circulars as part of the newspaper, and what is going to happen to coupons and such.

The third annual Webware 100 Awards program launches today. Nominate your favorite Web apps now. Read this blog post by Rafe Needleman on Webware.

A few thousand copies of GQ magazine in iPhone form won't turn Condé Nast around. But it's a start, and it's a good bet that the company's first Apple tablet apps will look awfully similar.

Some Web site founders have been surprised that their products are better suited to cellphones.