Yahoo announced at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas that they their famous messaging platform, Yahoo Messenger will be available soon on the iPhone. Check out the preview video after the break.
» Preview Video: Yahoo! Messenger

We have had IM+ on our iPhone for way long, but we have been using Fring till now. Since the 2.0 update released on the app store, this app has been given a pretty cool UI. All stability issues have been solved. » App Update Review: IM+ v2.0

Yahoo! today announced the upcoming launch of its new Yahoo! Mobile service – a highly-personalized mobile starting point to the Internet. Yahoo! Mobile will be available on the mobile Web, as an app developed for the Apple iPhone, and as an app developed for smartphones from Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola as well as those powered by Windows Mobile. Yahoo! Mobile initially will be available today through a managed beta program, with general availability expected in Q2 2009.
» Yahoo! Mobile coming soon to a App Store near you

Cooliris, Inc. has released Cooliris, a free application in the App Store, that allows you to view image search results from engines such as Flickr, Google, and Yahoo! in a 3D “wall.” The images are displayed along a wall, and you can pinch to zoom and even email photos. » App Store – Cooliris

BeejiveIM is a new iPhone/iPod Touch chat application that has been released in the App Store. BeejiveIM supports almost all known IM networks like MSN/Windows Live, Yahoo, Google Talk, MySpace, ICQ, Jabber and AIM/Mobile Me. The features that BeejiveIM has are extensive:
» BeejiveIM chat client with MSN/Live and ICQ support – App Store

MobileChat ,yes the jailbroken app of Twenty08 has made the jump to the App Store. Many of our first gen iPhone readers will know this app from the Jailbreak community. This was always one of my favorite applications that i installed on about any iPhone. Today it has been released in the App Store. Although it’s not free like PalRingo, it’s still worth while if you don’t like palringo very much.
» App Store – MobileChat moves to the App Store

I received a mail from our friends within Fring with some cool news. As i posted some time ago, Fring released their API publicly, see post here. Today they are publicly announcing the first fringAdd-ons developed by fring and 3rd party developers. The first flavors of fringAdd-ons are around social networking, videos and email notifications. As you can see in the screen shots below and in the YouTube clip fring users can already get Gmail notifications, vTap videos, interact with Facebook and Orkut buddies, with more to come.
» Fring released add-ons (orkut, gmail notifier, facebook and vTap videos)