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.

Mac users have never faced the authentication nightmares endured by folks using Windows. Likewise, although there are hard limits on how much sharing you can do, the apps and games on your iPhone can likewise be shared with friends and family.

The most popular app on the iPhone and iPod touch has gotten and major rewrite, and packs a large array of “new” features that bring it mostly up to par with the browser-based version. Come on inside for a snapshot overview of what’s hot and what’s not in this major update.

Talk about your slow boat to China. Rumors of the Apple’s game-changing handset officially on sale in the Middle Kingdom have circulated for years and  still all we have to report are rumors and whispered hopes.

A French security guard has become the second person to claim that they were injured when their iPhone screens exploded, spraying out small glass fragments and causing eye injuries.

It seems all of that openness isn’t producing desirable phones, applications or legions of loyal customers. Whereas Apple and Research in Motion together own a 35 percent and growing share of the smartphone market, handsets running Google’s operating system account for just 3 percent of users and that number isn’t likely to double or treble anytime soon.

Whenever Rob Glaser and RealNetworks sleaze on over to this side of the tracks, you don’t need to ask what they’re looking for — some cheap publicity on the down low. This time around the Seattle-based company is pimping an iPhone application for rejection by Cupertino’s App Store grannies, which is to say there’s more mileage in Apple’s good name than money spent advertising their worse than also-ran music service.

Although Apple has not yet tried a subscription service through the iTunes store, partially due to Steve Jobs objections, the Rhapsody music streaming service may be going to test those waters first.

Friday was the day Apple and AT&T had to provide explanations to federal regulators as to why Google Voice isn’t available on the App Store. As one might expect Ma Bell denied any interference, though Cupertino now claims — queue snort of derision — that the application hasn’t been rejected at all and is still being considered for release on the App Store.

AT&T, long the bane of an otherwise ethereal iPhone experience, claims to be solving part of the problem by rolling out their 850MHz 3G band service. Too little, too late?