iPhone News Updated

New Version of Layar Makes Augmented Reality Social

Red hot Augmented Reality browser Layar announced an upgrade to its service today that adds social features to the act of looking at data on top of the world around you.

If you’re using Layar to look through your mobile phone’s camera and see real estate listings for the buildings nearby, social network messages left by your friends in a particular place or Flickr photos from the area - you can now share that data set’s layer with anyone else by sending them its URL.
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textPlus: Ad sponsored texting for the iPhone

Are you or do you know a hypertexting teen? Then you really owe it to yourself to get and try this free application, which promises to reduce the cost of texting from whatever you’re paying (yes, $5 a month is too much) to zip, zero, nada.

textPlus (free, iTunes), an iPhone application that offers unlimited free text messaging from iPhones or iPod Touches and includes group text messaging, might not be a revolution, but it’s a clever idea that makes texting free and puts teen eyeballs in front of advertisers. Moreover, the folks at Gogii, creators of textPlus, are on to something as an average user launches this app times a day, totaling 50 minutes of use a day.

“Free texting does not work and would not work,” said Scott Lahman, chief executive, Gogii. “We think of it more as sponsored texting. And, I don’t think our texting would be monetizable if not for the rich app” provided by the iPhone, he said.
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