Coming to an iPhone/iPod Touch near you this fall from the creators of the greatest game in history ( Editors Note: Well, at least the greatest game in history involving hookers and drugs ), Grand Theft Auto, is Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. I guess it’s going to be an exact port of the DS title. Are you excited?

Red hot Augmented Reality browser Layar announced an upgrade to its service today that adds social features to the act of looking at data on top of the world around you. If you’re using Layar to look through your mobile phone’s camera and see real estate listings for the buildings nearby, social network messages left by your friends in a particular place or Flickr photos from the area - you can now share that data set’s layer with anyone else by sending them its URL. Layar hopes that it will eventually offer thousands of layers to view the world through and this feature will allow users to tell their friends by email, Facebook, Twitter etc.

Here is this week’s ReadWriteWeb events guide. Remember to download the calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry.

Bing Local Search has some interesting features you won’t find in Google, so the prospect of seeing Bing listings appear on top of your iPhone’s camera viewer when you point at a restaurant or business is intriguing. That’s what forthcoming iPhone app RobotVision offers - and it displays a view of Tweets and Flickr photos published nearby wherever you are.

Filed under: Handsets, Apple Streaming and subscription music services are a dime a dozen on iPhone, and they seem to get past Apple’s app store approval hurdles with relative ease.

Filed under: Software, Apple The Pocket Pain Doctor is an iPhone app “guaranteed to invigorate your mind” and rid you of such pesky things as fatique, drowsiness and acne . Of course, it also has all the telltale signs of a swindle: fake trademark claims on the terms Bluwave and Redwave (which belong to Starkey Labs (for hearing aids) and American Banknote (RFID tags), respectively), “clinical proof” that has nothing to do with the product, and the faux sophistication of using “exacting nanometers” to adjust the, uh, brightness. Cherry on the cake?

French app development shop PresseLite appears to have the first Augmented Reality (AR) supporting iPhone app live in the iTunes store, though we don’t know how they did it. It’s called Metro Paris Subway, and while the app isn’t new, it released a new version last week that added an AR overlay that displays information about Paris businesses when you look at the city through your iPhone’s camera. Augmented Reality is the term for a long-developed set of technologies that place layers of information on top of a view of the real world.

As we wait for streaming music service Spotify’s iPhone app to be approved by Apple , we have got news that subscription based streaming music service Rhapsody has submitted their iPhone app to the App Store for Apple’s approval. iPhone apps like Spotify and Rhapsody will be competition to Apple’s iTunes music store, so it will be interesting to see if Apple approves them

As of 2012, CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo wants Nokia to have 300 million service subscribers. In an aggressive first step, he’s planning on expanding the Ovi applications environment. But he needs to act quickly as in the past year the company’s shares have fallen by 50%

A couple of interesting new events this week on the ReadWriteWeb events guide, including a Twitter-driven documentary about Twitter. Download the calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry.