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AP – Songwriters and composers will get paid when their videos are seen on YouTube in France, under a deal announced Thursday by the online video sharing site and France’s leading music industry group.

Appolicious – Back in 2007, a few months after the iPhone debuted, an iPhone-specific social network web app called iRovr launched. The service drew a large number of dedicated fans, and the community grew until this past January, when iRovr died. Last week, a native app version of iRovr rose from the web site ashes and appeared in iTunes. Currently, iRovr is drawing a near-perfect rating in the App store — needless to say, its users are happy to have their community back.

Appolicious – Amazon made more headway with an updated Android app this week, bringing voice search and other features to digital bookworms. SwiftKey also emerged from beta, while Dropbox and Box.net announcements mean more virtualization around personal cloud storage for mobile users.

Mashable – TelCentris is currently testing a new function for its Voxox Internet telephony service that enables users to quickly extend VoIP calls to any phone. Voxox Call Connect works by first calling any phone that the user possesses and then automatically connecting the caller with a selected contact.

Mashable – When Steve Jobs said the iPad wouldn’t support Internet tethering, the hearts of many Apple fans sunk. It meant that even if you already owned an iPhone, you couldn’t use it to connect your iPad to the Internet, which could be handy in places with no open Wi-Fi connection.

PC Magazine – Google did not have much luck selling its own Nexus One smartphone online, so the search engine giant has instead launched a gallery designed to show off all the existing Android-based phones on the market.

AP – Nokia Corp. said Thursday it has begun shipments of its N8 model, a handset that aims to challenge RIM’s Blackberry and Apple’s iPhone in the smart phone market.

Macworld.com – WordPress for iOS version 2.6 is now available in the App Store. Announced late Wednesday, the new version introduces several much-requested new features to the popular blogging app for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Ben Patterson – It’s been more than five months since Nokia announced the N8, the first in a new breed of Symbian OS-based phones that Nokia hopes will give cutting-edge handsets like the iPhone and the Motorola Droid X a run for their money.

Appolicious – Can you name the two U.S. senators who represent your state? What about their political parties? With election season in full swing, it might be time to for a refresher course. And the Pick a Party iPhone app is a fun way to go about it.