Ios News & Articles

Google Drive is motoring along nicely with a new 1.30 update out for the productivity app, allowing users to better access and edit their documents in Google's updated cloud storage service, but some users are stuck at the Sign In button.

 After months of rumor, Facebook's smartphone is likely the one you already own, as Home opens up a new way to put social front and center on selected mobile devices. 

If there was any more bad news for PC makers in Gartner’s figures for the devices market between now and 2017, mobile and tablet makers would be fit to burst with happiness. According to this set of figures, tablet sales this year will be up 69%, while that of smartphones, excluding all other mobiles, will more than double to sales of over 1 billion units worldwide.

  The animosity between companies seems to be affecting the flow and interoperabilty between apps. So, its been some time coming for Microsoft's new SkyDrive app, while Twitter tries to replace some of the features it lost when the social apps started falling out with each other.

Like posting content to Drupal sites from an iOS device? Acquia, the commercial provider of Drupal Web CMS services, has released the code base for building native iOS apps that can post content right to a Drupal website -- the first of its kind.

Open source CMS provider Nuxeo has debuted native mobile apps on iOS and Android devices, and developers now have access to tools for building feature specific hybrid apps of their own.

 Social media giant Facebook has sent out invites to a new event next week, likely the unveiling of the company's much-rumored smartphone. A broad hint suggests the device will be a modified Android running some clever Facebook-centric features.

 Having scooped the market with the BlackBerry Z10, AT&T claims to be at it again, looking to sign up the first pre-orders for Samsung's hotly-anticipated next superphone, at a price. Meanwhile Best Buy stores will soon be decked out in Samsung colors with new mini-stores to help sell the new phone. 

  Google's Gmail app is dragging its way toward respectability in the usability stakes with a new swipe feature and more in the latest update. 

Earlier this month, IDC followed thousands of iPhone and Android users to discover their social habits and how they use smartphones to communicate. The answers won't really shock you, but the numbers are pretty impressive all the same. 

 While business focuses on big data, the consumer-connected Internet is aiming smaller and smaller, with data presented on smart watches supposed to be the next big thing. But where could we see true innovation, and not just cloning of phone features?

Enterprises are going mobile, that we know. But what trends are shaping and what are the major concerns? Citrix has been tracking these issues for some time now, and in its new report we are offered some interesting insights, not least of which is the fact that despite increasing interest in Google Android devices, iOS still dominates.

 Apple has finally released its third iOS update in around a month, this time to combat those using the Evasi0n tool to jailbreak their devices.

iOS and Android versions of the Salesforce Chatter mobile app have finally been updated to include things like editing accounts, leads and opportunities.

 Newly launched, mobile-focused, email manager and productivity boosting service Mailbox has joined forces with Dropbox to provide a more rounded, yet somehow boxier, service. Expect the move to help improve and scale the Mailbox side of the offering.