Google+ received an update, today, that includes the ability to reshare posts.

Resharing is easy. Simply tap on a post (like you would to +1 it). At the bottom near the comment box, you'll see a small arrow. Click it and you'll see the option to "Share this post". Just choose your audience, add a comment if you like, and hit "Post".

• Support for reshare
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

Google+ is available on the iPhone for free.

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They’ve just proven they have more Photoshop licenses than gadget sense.

[Thanks Greg!]

If the US Government and the Department of Justice weren’t enough, now the AT&T and T-Mobile US merger has to go up against… Sprint. Yes, adding some measure of insult to potential anti-trust injury, Medium Sized Yellow has sued to prevent Big Blue and Small Magenta from combining to form… slightly bigger Blue with just a blush of rose. (And yes, this is me taking the news far, far less seriously than Sprint intended.)

"Sprint opposes AT&T's proposed takeover of T-Mobile," said Susan Z. Haller, vice president-Litigation, Sprint. "With today's legal action, we are continuing that advocacy on behalf of consumers and competition, and expect to contribute our expertise and resources in proving that the proposed transaction is illegal."

Sprint's lawsuit focuses on the competitive and consumer harms which would result from a takeover of T-Mobile by AT&T. The proposed takeover would:

• Harm retail consumers and corporate customers by causing higher prices and less innovation.
• Entrench the duopoly control of AT&T and Verizon, the two “Ma Bell” descendants, of the almost one-quarter of a trillion dollar wireless market. As a result of the transaction, AT&T and Verizon would control more than three-quarters of that market and 90 percent of the profits.
• Harm Sprint and the other independent wireless carriers. If the transaction were to be allowed, a combined AT&T and T-Mobile would have the ability to use its control over backhaul, roaming and spectrum, and its increased market position to exclude competitors, raise their costs, restrict their access to handsets, damage their businesses and ultimately to lessen competition.

While it does feel like slapping a parking ticket on a guy already facing Federal court, you gotta admire Sprint’s moxie. And if all 4 US carriers score iPhone 5‘s this fall, competition might never be fiercer.

[Sprint]

What’s the main reason you Jailbreak your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad? Is it for themes, so you can change up the whole look and feel of your device? Is it to unlock so you can run it on T-Mobile or travel internationally? Is it convenience, so SBSettings and BiteSMS can keep you going faster? Is t coolness, so you can show your friends the icons rolling around your screen or how you can turn your device off like an old TV? Is it Tethering, because you feel like you’ve already paid your carrier once for that data? Is it functionality, because you want your screen projected or recorded?

Maybe it’s all or most of the above, but if you had to pick just one Jailbreak feature that’s most important to you, what would it be?

The mobile space has never been more relentless. It’s like Galactica — no matter how successful your last jump was, you have only 33 minutes to spin up again before the Cylons arrive and try to wipe you out.

And like Galactica, Apple now faces a new, evolved generation of competitors, some of which have taken their form, some of which are every bit as relentless as Cylons (and coincidentally share the same machine motif.)

While it seems like just yesterday that Steve Jobs held up the original iPhone on the Macworld 2007 stage and showed off full screen, multitouch iOS (then iPhone OS) for the first time, since then Android has officially launched, PalmOS was replaced with webOS, Windows Mobile was replaced with Windows Phone, and BlackBerry has just begun a transition to a new QNX base.

When that’s done, at roughly 5 years of age, iOS will be the oldest of the major mobile platforms on the market.

Now Apple has money, they have mindshare, and on a phone-to-phone, manufacturer-to-manufacturer basis they may even have a lot of the marketshare. But just like Apple’s competitors can’t bring specs to an experience fight, Apple can’t mistake device battles for a platform war.

The App Store remains the mother of all nukes in the mobile platform space, but for how long? Today’s refinement and maturity can lead to tomorrow’s stagnation and bloat. What has grown to appear all but unassailable in the market one generation can be quickly eclipsed by a big innovation in the next. (Just look what iOS did to everything that came before.)

Unlike Palm, who let PalmOS wither and Microsoft who condemned Windows Mobile to obsolescence, Apple has a history of not only competing against the industry at large but against their own past efforts as well.

On the eve iOS 5, we have more incremental feature improvements coming our way, along with the far more ambitious move to iCloud. It’s keeping up a relentless pace of innovation meant to keep a legion of competitors from catching up. But will that be enough maintain Apple’s lead into 2012, given that competitors like Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich, BlackBerry’s QNX, Microsoft’s Windows Phone, and potentially even Amazon’s next Kindle are increasingly less than 33 minutes away?

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Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• Kinetik: Stay up to date on the latest apps, get app recommendations from your friends, and see what apps are trending. [Free for iPhone - App Store link]

• popr: Take flight in this exciting, fast-paced, and addictive game of bottle popping fun! [Free for iPhone - App Store link]

• Pinch iMessenger HD: An easy to use, highly engaging, super fast messaging app. It has cool location based mobile social networking features integrated for greater fun. [Free for iPhone - App Store link]

• Sounds Annoying: Annoy your friends & family with over 80 of the most irritating sounds effects we could find for your amusement. [Free for iPhone - App Store link]

• Drain-Brain: A very fun logical game with drain and pipe system. You can complete the pipe system with the 3 different pipe pieces. [$0.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

Any other big app or game releases or updates today?

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Alert Notes is a nifty little app that converts normal, plain English notes into reminders.

If you’re a fast typer, Alert Notes is probably quicker than other apps that require you to turn dials to select times and dates. I love how Alert Notes recognize contacts but doesn’t make you choose anything about the contact until the moment you need access to the information. It’s one less step to the alert-created process.

This app understands dates, relative dates and phrases that indicate recurring alerts. It’s also smart enough to detect email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, URLs, names and initials from your Contacts for quick access later. It’s the ideal app to keep all those tidbits you want to be reminded of later.

• Set alerts using plain English
• Recurring alerts
• Detects emails, phone numbers, street addresses, URLs, names and initials from your device’s Contacts
• Fast search that updates as you type
• Full support for landscape mode
• Archiving of past notes
• Send a text message, initiate a FaceTime call, or share the contact info for detected names and initials
• Persistent alerts mode
• TextExpander support

Update includes:

• Landscape mode support
• Ability to quickly send a text message, initiate a FaceTime call, or share the contact info for names and initials detected from your notes’ text
• Lengthened some of the alert sounds, when appropriate
• Improved detection for the days of the week
• Improved detection and behavior for phrases like “nightly”, “each night” and “every night”
• Removed previously arbitrary limit to the number of info items (names, initials, phone numbers, email addresses and URLs) that can be detected in a note
• Alert sound preview now stops playing as soon as you leave the alert sound chooser screen
• Note titles and alert messages are now consistently capitalized

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Alert Notes is available on the iPhone for $2.99.

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