Beta 2 of iPhone OS 3.0 is out. Supposedly more stable than Beta 1, will give it a go and report §

Twitter has done well to hire up Douglas Bowman (@stop), recently departed Googler and with many other respected sites under his belt. Does this mean Twitter will get graphs? §

Good time for Google to launch a Venture Capital fund. In the next decade it should emerge that they made some cheap and lucrative investments during this recession. §

Compare the focused Peek mobile device with the new Sprint SCP-2700. The latter claims to be focused “directly” on mobile messaging. Oh, and it has a camera, GPS, a browser and a bunch of other features not focused “directly” on mobile messaging. Odd. §

Preview of changes to O2.ie. Big ass blue tabs. §

New FeedHenry.com website up in time for our demos at CTIA in Las Vegas. Good work to Edel and the team.

StatCounter has Firefox 3.0 just pipping Internet Explorer 7.0 as the most popular browser in Europe. Take with a grain of salt but still good news. (via @damianmulley) §

Interesting app from Verisign that generates a number key every 30 seconds to be used for signing into various websites. It is like the RSA SecurID dongles you can carry about but this one runs on your mobile device, iPhones for now. §

GoodHack is a one day event for developers to Make Something That Matters. They have a list of ideas and want you to meet up at Moo.com HQ. I’ve asked them how those of us unable to be there physically can participate. §

Twitter’s updated Replies (now called Mentions) feature just got a lot better. It now tracks your username anywhere in the tweet, not just the begining. This makes it more usable nd I no longer have to run Google search feeds looking for @paulmwatson. §