The more we live our lives on our smartphones, the more we are beginning to realize that we spend the vast majority of our time sat looking at whatever home screen adorns our devices. Whether your particular poison is Android, iOS or Windows Phone flavored, the chances are you spend a fair chunk of your time navigating the pile of icons, widgets or tiles that make up your home screen.
Although mobile devices have garnered a reputation for occupying the "casual" gamer with tricky puzzles, there are plenty of high-end, aesthetically sound titles resembling the console experience. Of the car racing titles, the Asphalt series is one of the foremost, and having been present on mobile devices prior to the App Store, it has still found a welcome home on Apple's application portal.
Although Amazon's Kindle is widely regarded as the number one e-reading device, the iPad is a decent, albeit expensive alternative, and the Cupertino company's iPhone packs a Retina display making reading books and journals a relative doddle.
At the time of writing, the official countdown is currently sitting at thirty eight days, meaning that Olympic fever is setting in across the globe as the world’s athletes prepare to descend on London in the hope of taking home the gold for their respective countries. Preparations have been underway for a long time making sure that London is perfectly setup to receive the scores of competitors and visitors that are planning on being a part of the Olympic procedures, with that experience now being available from the comfort of your own home on mobile devices.
Although superheros have proven to be extremely popular amongst comic book readers for many decades, the production of Hollywood movies based on those old comics is still a relatively recent phenomenon. Nevertheless, the blockbuster movies always prove to be smash hits with cinema goers and more often than not seem to spawn a video game for all major gaming platforms.
Although Facebook is undoubtedly the world’s largest social network with the rest of the offerings paling into insignificance by comparison, the recent public attention that has been lavished on the company in the last few months is enough to make even Mark Zuckerberg and his team feel a little pressure. The acquisition of Instagram and the company's initial public offering have made sure that all eyes are firmly fixed on Palo Alto.
Dropbox was one of the very first cloud services to really establish itself in the consumer market. Despite facing stiff competition recently from the might of Apple's iCloud, Microsoft's SkyDrive, and most recently, Google Drive, Dropbox continues to be the cloud hub of choice for many digital consumers.
Everyone is a big fan of Instagram here at Redmond Pie. We're not happy unless we are posting photos of our cats on the social network that was built to enable sharing of photos. Now that the company has shared an Android version with us after a long wait, then there really is no reason for anyone not to be as enthralled as we are.
Gameloft has officially announced a Batman: Dark Knight Rises mobile game in conjunction with the upcoming movie, which will support devices running both Google's Android and Apple's iOS mobile operating systems.
Podcast listeners and viewers around the world, rejoice, for soon you may have a new way of managing your podcasts on your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch if reports are to be believed. According to new reports coming out of AllThingsD, Apple may be about to break Podcasts out of the iTunes app, giving the audio and video shows a whole new app to live in.
