Every so often an application comes along and drops into the App Store which catches our eye for one reason or another. It could be for a number of reasons, sometimes the app is unique and the first of its kind, sometimes it contains a beautiful user interface and sometimes it's just because it is plain cheeky.
While Google’s latest mobile operating system Ice Cream Sandwich is the company's landmark, hybrid tab-and-smartphone release, its rather selective implementation on existing devices has left many Android users somewhat bemused.
The Original iPhone Film Festival set out to find the best movies shot using an iPhone throughout the year of 2011, and they have just announced the winners across a selection of categories.
Oh my, things just keep on getting worse and worse if you're an Android user who's concerned about security. It's the one thing that fans of more closed systems such as iOS and the App Store will always throw at those who favor open - security can never be as tight.
If you've ever wondered what goes on behind the closed doors of Apple's Cupertino campus then there has never been a better time. We've had the Steve Jobs biography of late, offering an insight into the man that built Apple. Twice. Now we've another book, this time going more in-depth at Apple itself, just as the title "Inside Apple" suggests.
Microsoft and its Windows Phone 7 have a big year ahead of themselves. Google and Apple currently have the mobile space all-but sewn up, and even old stalwarts like BlackBerry are struggling to compete with the new hotness that is iOS and Android.
After waiting for approximately three months, owners of the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 rejoiced when hearing the news that iOS security researcher Pod2g and his development Dream Team had overcome all of the technical hurdles in front of them to get to a position where they could publicly distribute an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5. The 'Corona' untether had previously been released for owners of older A4 powered devices, but the lack of a usable exploit on the newer, dual-core A5 devices meant that the team had no way of injecting the necessary files.
Music is big business. I wanted to start this article of with something very 'matter of fact', so there it is. There is no getting away from the fact that music is a huge industry, popular all over the globe. When I talk about the music industry though, I don't just necessarily mean the production or the sale of music singles or albums. The popularity of personal music players, music software and things like headphones has skyrocketed in recent years and become a multi billion dollar industry.
Despite Apple maintaining a closed-source stance with its iOS mobile software, jailbreaks from the various dev-teams have allowed an abundance of useful, unregulated apps to be installed onto our beloved iDevices.
If there’s one lingering criticism of our mobile browsers, it’s the sometimes difficult – oft impossible task that is downloading a simple file from the web. While most do manage, fairly easily, to store and open .pdf and .rar files plucked from the internet, it can sometimes be a tidbit hit-and-miss.
