Apps News & Articles

 A new app for Android phones brings local information, tourist facts, offers and restaurant recommendations for those new to a city, or taking the tour. 

 Around 1PM Eastern Time, if tradition holds, expect the connection to Apple's update servers to collapse into a sea of mush as millions of iPhone and iPad users rush to try out the latest features offered by the new mobile OS. 

 Yes, Apple has unveiled its latest range of gadgets to an eager media scrum at Yerba Buena in San Francisco, but with the same old presentation and incremental approach, the magic seems to have gone. 

Adobe launched its new desktop and mobile versions of its popular Connect videoconferencing tool, and the powerful solution looks to be a winner.

Microsoft has revamped SkyDrive with a new UI and updated the website's design in preparation for the Windows 8 launch, with a SkyDrive Android App launch imminent. 

More and more enterprise companies are cluing into the importance of mobile app development platforms and ecosystems, and new player AnyPresence just might have the right mix of security and agility for many businesses.

The recent beta release of SharePoint 2013 brought with it many things. One of those was "apps."

Information management is going mobile with the Generis CARA v3.3 debut, and it's bringing voice recognition along for the ride.

The public beta of SharePoint 2013 is now available for download. Like everyone, we found lots of interesting things in this new version. Here are a few of our favorite things.

 Sharing a photo, document or other content with a bunch of people in a room just got a lot easier thanks to Chirp, using a series of audio tones to spread the link to everyone present. 

As I’m sure you’ve heard, on Monday Microsoft officially released the public preview for Office and SharePoint 2013. And although the NDA is still in place (super special people only), there’s a wealth of knowledge now in the public domain for consumption.

Cisco is close to launching a cross-platform version of its AppHQ enterprise app storefront and managing platform.

Only a few years ago, app stores were an anomaly; now, even my six year old knows how to download and install an app. That simplicity has made the app store so popular with users that it is essentially a necessity for every mobile environment, enterprise application suite and desktop operating system. So, it's not too surprising that Microsoft is embracing the familiar app store concept in its latest incarnations of Windows and Office.

Technology has found its wings with unprecedented advances in devices for use anywhere, by anyone, for virtually any purpose. But as we await that next round of wow technology, there appears on the horizon a specter that may blunt our enthusiasm and impede technology’s climb.

 In an effort to get the whole computing world over to its latest operating system, Microsoft will be charging just $39.99 for current Windows 7 or XP users to upgrade via digital means. Anyone wanting a quaint boxed copy will have to pay $69.99.