Flickr, a popular free photo sharing site operating under the umbrella of the Yahoo properties, keeps stats on its users and how they interact with the site. Among the many statistics they track are the types of camera or camera phone people are using to take and upload photos.

Criticizing Apple for capping the iPhone’s potential, Orb Networks released an application enabling users to stream Live TV and other video formats to the iPhone or iPod Touch from any PC.

Its official iPhone users will have Wi-Fi access at 17,000 hotspots across the USA. You’ll find an update when you log onto the AT&T iPhone website. Where is the information? You can find it located under the iPhone plans section.

This morning saw mole phone network operator Vodafone announce that they had won the right to distribute the iPhone in ten countries. However, in Italy, one of the ten, it seems the contract isn’t an exclusive one, with Telecom Italia also bragging the right to distribute the device. Could this mean Apple are doing a u-turn on having one exclusive distributor in each country?

Apple snuck in some Chinese handwriting recognition into the latest iPhone 2.0 beta, but the beta firmware has skipped Japanese handwriting recognition so far. Instead other options exist for Japanese input. Here’s what the options for Japanese and Chinese input look like.

Up to now Google News hasn’t been available to owners of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. However, that’s now all changed, and wherever you are in the world, you’ll be able to keep up the all the latest news through Google.