Ios News & Articles

Locked out of developing for a mobile device? Your app isn't available on iOS/Android or another OS? Mozilla (news, site) could have the answer with an all-browser operating system that will run on anything.

It is inevitable that Apple's (news, site) iPad market share will decline as more rivals enter the market, but recent estimates still give the single device a five-year advantage against its horde of competitors.

YouSendIt (news, site) has been doing secure file transfer and storage long before it became a trendy cloud service. Now, its new launch is ready to compete with the likes of DropBox and others.

Microsoft (news, site) has made gaining access to your Windows Live information easier across all smartphones and mobiles in a developer-friendly move.

Android tablets have come and gone. And while some are enjoying immense popularity -- like the Asus Eee Pad Transformer that plugs into a keyboard dock to become a netbook -- the iPad is still the leading device in the tablet market. Amazon (news, site) wants to compete against Apple and everyone else by building its own Android Tablet, which is rumored to have its launch sometime this Fall.

Mobile is gaining ground as one of the world's most vibrant industries. Mobile data, applications and the entire industry that make up these devices and services will amount to US$ 1.3 trillion this year, and technology analyst Chetan Sharma say the industry will account for 2% of the global economy's output in 2011.

Engaging your audience through social media might be easy, but tracking the performance and returns from these is not necessarily a piece of cake. Clearspring's latest updates to its AddThis (news, site) platform makes it easier to track the performance of sharing. A new partnership with the BlueKai data exchange also expands users' network for better campaign monitoring and tracking.

The mobile industry is a fast-growing market, not only for smartphones and devices, but also the applications. Analysts predict that the mobile app market to grow to US$ 36.7 billion by 2015, with 182.7 billion downloads. How can mobile networks catch up? How can developers monetize their work? How can users choose the best apps?

If things are slowing down on the run up to the holiday weekend, it was a busy week in GRC. Symantec research shows iOS and Android to be more secure than PCs, OpenText is offering archiving and records management of social content through Social WorkPlace, Cabinet NG digs deeper into the legal space and Clearwell looks at cloud computing and e-Discovery.

Those Google Sites (news, site) will look better instantly with a touch of mobile magic, offering better fit and alignment of page elements for your pages.

The proliferation of Android devices has put smartphones and tablets in the hands of many people who never would have held either. Unfortunately, the majority of websites cannot tell the difference between an Android smartphone and an Android tablet. That's not good.

Among the many rumors surrounding Apple (news, site), one of the most persistent has been its move onto big screens. Well, that could be happening soon, providing a new surface for Apple's media empire and your data and apps.

Adobe (news, site) updates to Flash Builder and Flex mean coders can now produce apps across the trifecta of mobile and tablet environments.

The iPad has been steaming ahead for over a year. Gently rolling along behind comes the world's biggest social site (news, site), which is finally ready to grace it with a proper Facebook app. 

This week, only a couple of weeks after upgrading its document management software, Nuxeo offers digital signatures, LibreOffice schedules an enterprise release for August, Google Docs outlines medium terms projects, PSIGEN offers more for SharePoint and Primadesk provides document search wherever your documents are stored.