Car security company Directed Electronics is unveiling a new iPhone application Tuesday that lets customers control parts of their Viper SmartStart-enabled vehicle from their iPhone or iPod Touch. 

The app, called Viper SmartStart, is quite similar toZipcar’s recently released iPhone app, except it can work with your car, and not one you’re renting for the weekend. It too creates a virtual keychain control module that can do things like lock and unlock your vehicle, open the trunk, and activate the alarm, getting rid of the need to carry around one of those keychain clickers as long as you’ve got your phone handy. 

Coolest of all, though, there’s a “Smart Start” button in the center of the screen that can turn on your vehicle. The company is promoting this as a simple way to defrost or cool off a car before you get in–that is, assuming you correctly set the climate controls the last time you were inside. 

Since the app uses the iPhone’s data connection to send the commands, you can control your car (or cars) from anywhere you have an EDGE or 3G signal. It also means you can use it on a non-cellular data device like the iPod Touch, as long as it’s near Wi-Fi. 

The app is completely free, but it requires you have Viper’s SmartStart system installed in each car you want to take control of. This costs $499 for a new installation, or $299 for cars that already have a Viper alarm system, as well as an active subscription to Viper’s Smart Start service. Buyers of the system get a year of the $29.99 service included when they get the service installed; then they have to pay after that.

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Yesterday, the Dev-Team tweeted about their concern with the release of Snow Leopard and jailbreaking. They said,

“If you get both Snow Leopard & iPhone on Fri, easiest to jailbreak 1st, update to Snow 2nd  Til any kinks are worked out.”

However, a little later they tweeted,

“Lots of tweets that redsn0w and PwnageTool work great on Snow Leopard, so *should* be kink-free Friday! Thanks twitterers!”

So, if you are getting (or got) Snow Leopard today, you should be good to go.

(via AppleiPhoneSchool.com)

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A new version of Facebook for iPhone OS 3.0 is available now with many new features and improvements. 

The App Store description still contains information for version 2.5; however, the actual download is now version 3.0. I simply deleted my previous Facebook app from Applications then redownloaded it to update to the new version. 

So Whats New in This Update? 
1. The “new” News Feed 
2. Like 
3. Events (including the ability to RSVP) 
4. Notes 
5. Pages 
6. Create new photo albums 
7. Upload photos to any album 
8. Zoom into photos 
9. Easier photo tagging 
10. Profile Pictures albums 
11. A new home screen for easy access to all your stuff, search, and notifications 
12. Add your favorite profiles and pages to the home screen 
13. Better Notifications (they link to the comments so you can reply) 
14. Quickly call or text people right from the Friends page 
15. Messages you are typing will be restored if you quit or are interrupted by a phone call 
16. Video uploads for the 3GS 

one feature they don’t seem to mention is the mini-browser (like IM+) where you click links & it now loads in the Facebook app vs closing it & launching Safari in the previous version

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A: $144,326.06 USD

Just in case you felt compelled to assemble a collection of every push-to-fart program out there, BustedLoop calculates the price of purchasing all 55,732 available iPhone apps to be $144,326.06.

(via Gizmodo.com)

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The Sirius Internet Radio application for iPhone and iPod touch will be available June 18th, according to a TUAW report.

Subscribers who are asking about the app are receiving the following email from support.

Thank you for contacting SIRIUS regarding whether or not there is a SIRIUS iPhone application available. We are here to help! We appreciate the time you have taken to contact us in regards to this matter! We are happy to inform you that beginning June 18th a SIRIUS Internet Radio application will be available at the Apple iTunes App-Store for the iPhone and the iPod Touch! 

All Premium SIRIUS Internet Radio subscribers will be able to download the application from the Apple iTunes App-Store for free on their device and access the service at no additional cost! Subscribers who are listening to the Basic Online Service for free must first upgrade to the Premium Online Service for $2.99 per month to access the application on the iPhone or iPod Touch.

(via iClarified.com)

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BeeJive has announced their update to BeeJiveIM for iPhone OS 3.0 will include push notifications and be free. 

BeeJiveIM is one of most popular instant messaging applications for the iPhone. It features integrated support for AIM/iChat, MobileMe, MSN, Yahoo!, MySpace, GoogleTalk, ICQ, & Jabber. 

According to a Mobile Crunch report BeeJive should have the release ready by WWDC next week. 

(via iClarified.com)

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A screenshot of the forthcoming Sirius XM iPhone app has been posted online by BusinessInsider.

The image was found in a presentation by Mel Karmazin at the Sirius XM shareholder summit.

From the image we can see that you’ll be able to browse music by categories, channels, and favorites. There is also a shopping feature that might be linked to the iTunes Store.

According to the company, “The SIRIUS XM app will deliver an expanded programming lineup that includes SIRIUS XM’s exclusive sports talk, news, comedy, and 100% commercial free music channel, as well as new talk, comedy, and music showcase channels.”

(via BusinessInsider.com)

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The App Store has reached an amazing one billion downloads with both iTunes and Apple.com featuring celebration pages as predicted earlier. 

According to TUAW the billionth download took place around 4:52 EST. 

You can take a look at a few of the screenshots below… 

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Quickoffice, the maker of office productivity software for Symbian and BlackBerry handsets, has released its first suite for the iPhone.

Quickoffice for iPhone, which was released Monday, allows full editing of Microsoft Office documents and spreadsheets, and incorporates cut-and-paste functionality–a feature that will not be natively supported by the iPhone until the summer.

File-sharing and content-management capabilities are also built into Quickoffice for iPhone. Aside from allowing editing of Office documents, the suite also supports the viewing of iWorks and PDF format files.

The new suite also incorporates access to MobileMe iDisk accounts. However, that functionality was already enabled in Quickoffice’s free MobileFiles application, which was released in November. Quickoffice for iPhone can be downloaded from iTunes for $19.99.

(via iPhoneAtlas.com)

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