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A group of Tulsa investors have launched AskMeTellMe, a national iPhone application born out of frustrations with Google and other Internet search engines. The new app, which is driven by each user’s individual social network, brings the human element back to decision making in today’s internet-dominated world, according to its developers.

“Who are you going to trust to find a good babysitter — Google or your friends?” says Toby Biolchini, who along with several other Tulsans created the iPhone app that’s free online at the Apple App Store.

In February, there was some speculation about Microsoft having a very good chance at landing a deal with Apple to make Bing become its default search engine for the iPhone. However, Google will apparently remain the default search engine for now.

French newspaper “Le Figaro” — as noted by “Mobile Business Briefs” (http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com/article/orange-t-mobile-telefonica-vodafone-set-for-handset-os-talks) — reports that Stephane Richard CEO of France Telecom-Orange, has invited the heads of Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica and Vodafone to discuss the possible creation of a common platform for mobile devices.

Tension Software has released Url Extractor X 3.2 (http://pomola.com/products_urlextractor/urlextractor.html). Url Extractor X is a Mac OS X app for extracting emails address and generic URLs from files on the HD or directly from the web using a list of “starting” web addresses and working unattended after the startup. You can now retrieve and start search from web pages using keywords from various international Google sites.

Developer David Kocher has updated Cyberduck (http://cyberduck.ch/) — an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files andAmazon S3 browser — to version 3.6. The upgrade adds support for Google Storage and file versioning in Amazon S3.