Ipad News & Articles

Jive Software has released its Present presentation software for iPad and Android, and two other apps for the iPad and iPhone.

After years of will they/won't they, Microsoft has finally released an Office app for the iPhone (usable, but not optimized for the iPad), finally bringing its platform agnostic play to Apple devices. 

Microsoft is running with the "if you build it they will come" theme, by opening up 600 mini-stores within Best Buy shops to get people interested in new Windows products and the Xbox One console. On the way, it can't help but have a dig at Apple's iPad in its latest advert. 

With the smartphone rapidly becoming an accessory that fits into other areas of our lives and between other pieces of our technology, Apple is using iOS 7 to get the iPhone into cars and onto your TV for gaming and other purposes.

Apple got busy this morning with a rapid-fire keynote speech at WWDC revealing the much awaited revamp for iOS 7 plus a new OS X, Mac hardware and a few surprises. 

Quite why CEOs are invited to ATD's events I'm not sure, they can't comment on anything the company has yet to disclose, generally toe the company line and regurgitate the usual spiel on existing issues. Still, Tim Cook did drop some vague hints as to what's to come from Apple at this year's chat. 

Mobile devices are a main way of getting in touch with companies' contact centers, and Oracle has updated its Service Cloud and released a mobile agent iPad app to address these complex events.

With only a couple of weeks until Apple's big developer event, the company has to match Google's feature-heavy Android and app updates from I/O, Microsoft's new media-friendly Xbox One and keep generating hardware magic in what is becoming a highly predictable market. 

The rollercoaster success story of Mailbox, acquired by Dropbox after barely a month in existence, should get heavy email users excited as the iPad version of the app arrives to save their in-box. 

After the big Spring launches comes the bragging and the competitive advertising. Samsung is seeing rocketing sales, and Microsoft is using Siri to have a dig at Apple's iPad with its own Windows 8 tablets. 

What is Xbox One? Is it a games machines, a media center, or an app player? Microsoft wants it to be all three, with near instant-on, voice activation, Skype and many other features, but to do this, it runs a version of Windows 8, a gaming hyper-OS and a media system, highlighting the company's struggles with Windows.

There doesn't seem to be much of a recession in the tablet space. According to figures just released by International Data Corporation growth in the market is estimated to be 142% year-on-year with Microsoft climbing into fifth position on the back of Surface.

 Google Now has landed on the iPad and iPhone in an update to the company's search app, bringing Google's power to match your thirst for local, relevant and useful information on the go. 

With the announcement of its Worldwide Developer Conference for June, Apple has set the wheels in motion for the reveal of iOS 7, a monumental event if Apple is to keep up with the ingrained social-media-friendly, music-streaming and up-front services that users now expect.

With plenty of revenue from all those desktop web games, how will Facebook translate that as users access social media and games increasingly from their mobile? The acquisition of Parse whose mobile app development SDK for iOS and Android and other platforms powers thousands of apps seems to be one answer.