What apps are on the Apple’s VP iPhone?

Anyone using an iPhone must have heard already of Phil Schiller, the senior VP of worldwide marketing at Apple, the first Apple figure that went out and spoke about the iPhone AppStore admission process.

Such people are very careful about getting their names associated with any 3rd party tools, software or anything, so I have found it quite interesting when The New York Times published an blog article: ☞ What’s on Phil Schiller’s iPhone?

Unfortunately if you look at the list that’s extremely short:

• Shazam: the app that tries to identify a song by “listening” to it
• CNN app
• MLB.com at Bat, NBA Game Time, ESPN ScoreCenter
• Facebook app (nb the app with the largest number of installs)
• Best Camera: a photo app
• a couple of games:
  • Eliminate
  • geoDefense

So, no surprises or new discoveries here… You will find more interesting apps in my iPhone apps for geeks series.

Microsoft Demos Silverlight on the iPhone

For a couple of seconds I really thought this is the announcement of the year. Don’t get me wrong, but there were a lot of things to be read between the lines from such a headline. But then I paused for another second and re-read the announcement… and I realized there isn’t much about it (like with most of PR these days).

Let me reformulate the title so everyone can see why it is not a big deal: Microsoft has demoed streaming video from a “Silverlight server” in the ☞ H.264 format. The video is available in web pages through the usage of the HTML5 

What Is the Best Multi-client IM for the iPhone?

It looks like the iPhone AppStore provides plenty of multi-client IM apps from where you can pick your favorite(s). Unfortunately as with Twitter clients, when there are too many choices picking the right one is quite difficult.

So, here is the list of multi-client IM iPhone apps I am currently running in parallel:

• fring: Skype, GoogleTalk, MSN, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo, SIP, AIM
• Nimbuzz!: WindowsLive, Skype, Yahoo, Facebook, GoogleTalk, AIM, MySpace, ICQ, and a couple more
• Palringo: WindowsLive, Yahoo, AOL, ICQ, XMPP, GoogleTalk, Facebook
• eBuddy: MSN, Yahoo, AIM, GoogleTalk, Facebook, ICQ, MySpace

You can use different criteria to pick the right multi-client IM iPhone app:

• support for the services you are using
• push notifications
• per-account advanced settings
• price: most of the above apps are free. Palringo and eBuddy are the only one that have also a payed version offering a couple more features.

Anyway, I am wondering if you have any favorite(s) you’d like to recommend?