InternetFriendster supports applications for rival sites (AP)

AP - Friendster, an early online social network that has faded in the United States but remains strong in Asia, has begun letting programmers create photo-sharing applications and other programs that work on Friendster as well as rival sites.

NEW YORK - Friendster, an early online social network that has faded in the United States but remains strong in Asia, has begun letting programmers create photo-sharing applications and other programs that work on Friendster as well as rival sites. Friendster had already announced support for this initiative, a Google Inc.-led plan called OpenSocial. But this week Friendster released the software tools that let outside programmers easily adapt chats, games and other functions initially made for other online hangouts. By participating in OpenSocial, now backed as well by Yahoo Inc. and News Corp.'s MySpace, outside programmers can make their applications work on multiple sites with minimal tweaking. That could, for instance, encourage developers of media-sharing tools for MySpace to adapt their programs for Friendster. If the programs had to be written from scratch... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

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InternetApple updates iPhone software to fix glitches (Reuters)

Reuters - Apple Inc has issued a software update for the latest iPhone to help fix connection problems that led to a flurry of online complaints from customers, a European mobile service provider said on Tuesday as Credit Suisse reported strong U.S. sales of the device.