These days, many major technology and internet-based companies have been trying to figure out a way to take over a slice of the music business. Google's answer, which was introduced earlier this year, is Google Music, a cloud service, currently an invite-only and US-only beta product, that stores the user's entire music library on the cloud. While initially only available for Windows, Mac and Android, an iOS version of the said service is now available.
Apple has spurred several moves to ban the sale of Samsung's Galaxy product line in Europe, the United States, Australia and others. According to a new report, the Cupertino company is now moving to ban the sale of the Samsung Galaxy S, the Galaxy S II and the Galaxy Tab 7.7 in Japan, similarly to what it is doing in other countries.
For a short while, details of Apple's third tablet device made fairly frequent headlines but has now taken something of a backseat. For a while, it was though that the device, unofficially dubbed the iPad 3, would hit the market sometime this Fall, but that notion was later quashed due to LCD display production issues, and the device is now expected in early 2012.
Over the last decades, we've witnessed a trend of an increasing number of large retailers going out of business or becoming less relevant by the day. GameStop, a popular game retailer, is trying to counter that trend by tapping into a growing and profitable market of iOS devices.
Touted as the Big G's answer to Facebook, the early buzz surrounding the fast rise of Google+ died out almost as quickly as it arrived. That said, it is still in beta stage, and the best of Google's latest effort to social networking is still to come.
It's rather unfortunate that Apple exercises as much control and as many restrictions as humanly possible throughout iOS, and is one of the main reasons why people wind up jailbreaking the device.
The debate on which is the best mobile operating system is one discussed frequently throughout the tech world. Google has the biggest reach - covering over half of the smartphone market with its various incarnations of Android, whilst many others believe that Apple's iOS is superior, and is only behind due to being closed source and running on arguably overpriced technology.
Apple has done a pretty good job of snuffing out most of the opportunities to share files between iDevices. iTunes is the center of the known universe from the fruit company's point of view, and allowing drag and drop potentially facilitates copyright theft, so no chance of that changing any time soon.
Ever since the inception of Mobile Safari in 2007, back in the original version of iOS, the said browser has always had Back and Forward buttons, making navigation function identical to the way it would work on traditional Windows, Mac and Linux web browsers. Yet, several versions of iOS’ later, it's still not possible to move back or forward more than one page at a time, unless you're jailbroken.
At the very basic level, there are two types of keyboards in use on smartphones today: physical and virtual. Virtual keyboards, like that on the iPhone and popular Android devices, are generally more widespread while physical keyboards are more popular with people who prefer tactile feedback which is, of course, missing on virtual keyboards.
