Check out the CNET story here.

Yahoo Search iPhone App and Yahoo Sketch-a-Search are now at the App Store. (Links open iTunes.) Get more info from the New York Times.

The soup Nazis over at Apple have inscrutably banned another group of applications from the iPhone/iTouch and soon to be iPad platform. WiFi finders were unceremoniously scrubbed from the app store beginning Thursday. I’m sure AT&T is involved on this one.

It appears there’s going to be a new category (launching sometime) called “Explicit” coming to the App Store. More from the gang at Cult of Mac.

Is his Hooters Calendar app about to get the boot?  App developer Phil Yerkes doesn’t think so.  But you never know. (Disclaimer: I think Hooters is absolutely tacky, but they do have great wings and clam chowder.  Honest. My wife doesn’t buy that, but it’s true.) Apple’s new crusade to clean up the App Store has a lot of folks upset, like MG, for instance.

AppleInsider’s got the story right here. Due to user complaints, apps like “Wobble iBoobs” are getting the boot. Over at eSarcasm, they report that Apple has removed itself from the store.

Some former students of the University of Texas created an iPhone app called iTexas. (Link opens App Store.) It’s an app that coordinates all the things a UT student would need to keep up on, regarding campus life, etc.  But no, it’s got the word “Texas” in it. Which the University OF Texas apparently thinks it owns.  Or something. More here. And a memo to Dean Wormer or whoever runs UT: Answers.com says “The first people to Texas arrived during the Pleistocene about 24,000 years ago. Alonso Alvarez de Pineda mapped the Texas coast in 1519.” So if anyone should be upset, it’s him.

Software pirates have hit the Apple App Store to the tune of $450 million since the store opened for biz in July of 2008.  Get more info here.

In a statement timed coincidentally on the same day The Phone was released, Dear Leader allowed this communique to be released.  “Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months — this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” he said. “The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”  More from USA Today here.

Why tap on your screen when you can talk to it? The Dragon Dictation app for iPhone is ready. Start talkin’ people.