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It's time to update your Facebook app if you're a Windows Phone fan.

The new version (2.5), according to The Windows Phone blog, contains a bunch of new features as well as improvements to the popular favorite:

With all the innovation crammed into a smartphone you would have thought that someone would have come up with a way to modernize making phone calls. You know, speaking to someone else on your cell phone. That task hasn't changed much since the earliest days of mobile telephony.

It's really, really close. But, the new winner of the most-used Web browser, worldwide, is Google's Chrome.

According to the numbers crunchers at StatCounter, Chrome has just edged out Microsoft's Internet Explorer for the first time.

If you're a fan of Restaurant.com and their discount dining coupon system you know what a pain it could be to carry around 8.5 by 11 printouts with you to dinner.

Especially if you're smartphone is of the Android persuasion.

Fear no more, bargain hunters. There's now a Restaurant.com app made just for you.

Nielsen, the company that rates everything from TV viewership to music sales also keeps track apps – who buys them and how often.

In their just released “State of the Appnation” some interesting facts have emerged:

Google thinks that the way we do searches on the Internet is incredibly old-fashioned. You type in a word or two and then you have to scroll through lists of educated guesses about what you wanted in the first place.

According to the bloggers at 9to5Mac, the next version of iOS, Apple's operating system for for iPhones and iPads, will replace Google's mapping system with an app of their own.

The headline is pretty much self-explanatory.