Ios News & Articles

       After some warnings from telcos last week, Apple has rushed out a patch to improve mobile performance and reliability for just the one model of iPhone. 

  Despite having its launch event cancelled due to Blizzard Nemo, Microsoft managed to get people queueing for its new Surface Pro tablet. But, poor stocks left many users frustrated according to reports. 

Online pin board and popular social network Pinterest has updated its iOS app and is now testing some, as yet, unreleased changes to its website layout.

       While it may not be the best-selling device or be the most used ecosystem, Apple can lay claim to iPhone being the most profitable smartphone on the market, and now the most used device for those accessing the mobile Internet. 

While we wait to see how BlackBerry Will promote the BB10, the new Star Trek movie already has an app, while Motorola, GoDaddy.com and others are putting up a heavy advertising presence among the car and beer adverts for this year's super-advertising-bowl-athon.

Collaborating on documents has never been easy. Even if you’re working from a desktop with people in the same room there’s bound to be issues, so you can only imagine what it’s like trying to share and edit documents from a mobile device while on the go. Workshare is trying to improve this experience with a new app that aims to offer document comparison for mobile devices.

While Android is still the leading platform for mobile software development, and iOS is second, there is considerable interest in Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10. That’s one of the key findings in a new report on choices by mobile developers.

 Looking to expand on brief messages and snapshots, a new iOS app allows users to create short, six second, looping clips ideal for those candid camera moments to share with your Twitter friends. 

 On sales of 47.8 million iPhones and 22 million iPads, Apple has recorded $54.5 billion in revenue and $13.1 billion in profit in a single quarter. 

Last week, YouSendIt, the cloud file collaboration service, bought Found, a system for enabling file search across devices and clouds. Today, YouSendIt is beefing up its mobile offerings with the launch of some new mobile apps for the iPhone, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. The apps are designed to meet the needs of an increasingly mobile user base while protecting against the growing security risks of mobile file sharing.

In their most recent update to the Facebook Messenger application for iOS, Facebook has introduced a free calling feature via wi-fi or data connections for US users. 

Between the low-hanging fruit of some Star Trek gadgets, like the common flip-open phones whose original design was based on the series’ devices, and the far-future-if-ever technology from the TV series like teleportation, lie some advances that we are living to see. Move over, voice-recognizing computers. Time to make way for the CommBadge. 

It’s time for the first Mobile App of the Week in 2013. This week we’re looking at Pheed, a social network.

 Google's Maps app for the iPhone has been a huge hit this month with 10 million downloads and being credited with boosting iOS and saving Christmas (maybe). Google is now sharing some hints and tips for those still experimenting with it. 

Cloud storage mover and shaker Dropbox has bought fellow Y Combinator alum Snapjoy, a photo viewing app that lets people consolidate and view photos from around the Web or stashed away on various devices and memory cards.