Ios News & Articles

 Having proved a success in the U.K., Zeebox is coming to America, partnering with Comcast and other broadcasters. The Zeebox app helps friends use their phone or tablet as a second social screen while enjoying their TV viewing, and creating a potential goldmine in the interactive link between the viewer and content providers and advertisers. 

Last week Meg Whitman slapped down any speculation that HP would buy struggling RIM. Instead, she said HP would make its own smartphone way. That doesn’t mean that RIM will not undergo a renaissance, and the announcement of a licensing agreement with Microsoft could be part of that.

 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. 

Twitter has updated its iPad, iOS and Android apps to make them more visual, and photos are now more easily accessed at the top of the feed.

Angel Labs has debuted its Lexee voice activation system that can be added to existing iOS and Android mobile apps, including Salesforce.

Leading Russian search engine Yandex is entering into a major partnership with Apple. As reported in Businessweek, Yandex, the Russian equivalent of Google, will have its Yandex Maps location service integrated with Apple iOS6-based devices sold in Russia.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference that the company is now focused more on mobile. He mentioned the importance of search and ads, but not mobile ads. 

Google is expanding the functionality of its cloud-based Drive document management service for iOS and Android users. Starting today, users of the iOS Drive app will have the same document-editing ability that users of the Android Drive app already possess.

 This month is pretty much draws a line under what has come before for smartphones, and defines where the market heads in future. Today saw Nokia and Motorola launch bigger, better models, with new features. But, will the public bite and will they matter in just a few months time as Apple awaits?

After a split decision in similar legal battles in Samsung's native South Korea, the American court case is coming to a close as the Jury reaches a verdict. Early indications suggest Apple has won on a majority of counts, with both sides like to check for inconsistencies. 

 Four years after starting up, Evernote's business model has evolved and scaled-up along with the company itself, to offer larger groups of the workers the power to collaborate. Enter Evernote Business to cater for bigger customers. 

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

With the tablet market about to go into overdrive, Pinterest has updated its mobile apps to offer distinct iPad and Android versions, to cater for those shiny new media-rich screens.

Yammer is now officially part of Microsoft's Office Division, and the enterprise social network has released a major new update to the homepage and navigation features.

Google, when all is said and done, is a search provider. This week it has announced three enhancements to its search engine. The upgrades include voice search for iPad/iPhone, Gmail in search and improvements to Knowledge Graph, the database it introduced in May.