If you're a regular reader of this site, you're probably aware that HP has recently decided to put its line of webOS hardware to rest, leaving all of the platforms developers wondering what to do next. In response, Microsoft has been offering extensive help to all of the platform's developers develop apps for Windows Phone 7, which has received a phenomenal response.
Earlier this year, jaws across the world dropped when Japan was hit by a huge earthquake that cost many lives and brought the country close to a nuclear catastrophe. Apple is playing its part at helping by displaying earthquake warnings on iOS 5's Notification Center to all users in Japan, using the country's own earthquake warning system.
It may not come as a massive surprise that Apple's iPhone, despite the excessive price-tag, is the top-selling smartphone in the U.S. market right now.
Apple just released a point update to iTunes for both Windows and Mac users. Merely a bug fix and performance enhancement release, iTunes 10.4.1 addresses some critical problems that have been haunting users ever since the iTunes 10.4 release.
One of the most well-known utilities that have been built into iOS from the very beginning is the Calculator app, which does a great job for basic calculations, and sometimes not-so-basic ones. Yet, sometimes we only wish that there was an easier and quicker way to perform calculations in iOS: if you have jailbroken your device, now there is.
Judging by Apple's recent emphasis on mobile devices, it wouldn't be wrong to predict that traditional Mac computers will be phased out eventually or maybe evolve into something ne. But according to a shady new report, Apple is working with suppliers to bring a radically new Mac to its product line by the end of the year.
By now, you’ve probably heard news of Hewlett-Packard discontinuing their line of webOS devices and “spinning off” their PC business; the discontinuation of the webOS-based TouchPad has left retailers with thousands of units which are now being sold for as cheap as $99. You may want to get your own $99 TouchPad too, as a group of developers have announced the TouchDroid project which aims to bring Android to the TouchPad.
It's no secret that Facebook has been making enhancements to its instant messaging capabilities. These are partially welcomed by the Facebook community, yet some still want to chat with their friends from a full-blown desktop application. You could use Windows Live Messenger, which supports Facebook Chat out of the box, but what if you're really looking for a Facebook-specific application?
Shortly after Internet Explorer 9 was released back in March, Microsoft began releasing Platform Previews of Internet Explorer 10. These "previews" don't include a user interface beyond a menu bar with a few essential options and therefore can't be used as a standard browser, yet there's a way to bring the engine from the Internet Explorer 10 developer previews to Internet Explorer 9's user interface.
Just a week ago, references to 4G LTE testing surfaced in an alleged private build of iOS 5, which was...
