Iphone News & Articles

Regardless of how happy users are with their current phones, the makers are always pushing new levels of performance at us. Samsung's latest quad-core chip will power the next-generation Galaxy smartphone and future tablets, and push performance to new heights.

For most of the day, analysts were downbeat on Apple's prospects, sending the stock price dipping 2%. Cometh the hour, cometh Apple's usual miraculous figures with a 151% rise in iPad sales.

While the ability to gain access to content through smartphones or other mobile devices was a welcome step forward, it's just not enough any more. Workers are now looking for the ability to interact with that content and initiate business processes. SpringCM has introduced a new range of apps that does that with its content management software.

All those mobile photos now belong to Facebook as the social networking giant snaps up its rapidly expanding rival, which started as a touch-up and share service, and became a social network in its own right.

Google's Drive service is likely to sneak out of the garage in the next few weeks according to insiders at the company, bringing it into conflict with Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Dropbox and pretty much everyone else. Let the cloud storage wars commence.

Zoho is bringing its impressive lineup of Web-based office apps from the desktop to smartphones with the arrival of Zoho Docs and Zoho CRM for Android (available now) and. Zoho Projects for Apple's iPhone, which will be available shortly.

Competition in the smartphone and tablet market is getting tougher between Apple and Google. Apple is reportedly reducing its dependence on Google in various online and mobile services, and with recent reports that Baidu will soon be a default search engine for iOS mobile devices in China, Google might just lose its already weak hold in this market.

The iPad has made social magazine apps in fashion, with the likes of Flipboard and Zite. Zite earlier launched a variant of its social reader for smaller iOS devices, and Flipboard now makes its grand launch for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

No sooner does the hubbub die down after the new iPad launch than word starts sneaking out about the due date and dimensions of Apple's next smartphone. Just as well, as rivals are now marching ahead with bigger screens and more features, leaving iPhone looking marginally outclassed in a cutthroat market.

PayPal has long dominated the small ecommerce transaction market, now it heads to the streets, the stores and pretty much anywhere with a new mobile PayPal Here solution for card and other payments.

Despite the vast amounts of revenue generated from the service, Google's search service has remained relatively staid for users, bar the odd funky logo. However, according to the Wall Street Journal, it will soon be getting up to speed, offering direct answers to questions and more relevance via semantic searching.

Calling itself "...the next logical next step in the evolution of social networking client applications," a social media aggregator App for the iPhone called Hudld from startup company SanctumSoft is gaining traction in the market, and ink from the press. With the promise of the power to manage social networking lives more efficiently, the software offers the ability to post and manage up to 60 social accounts (Twitter and Facebook) simultaneously using a centralized hub approach. That's one fluid timeline of Twitter and Facebook feeds with "...speed, usability and privacy at its core," according to Brian Ash, head of the Lubbock, Texas,-based SanctumSoft.

Today, Apple launched the new iPad. While most of the tech specs had already leaked, leave it to Apple to surprise us with new apps, content and the odd treat. See what the company revealed to keep things magical.

Apple has dedicated its entire front page to the countdown towards 25 billion app downloads, with a lucky winner about to win a mountain of apps via a US$ 10,000 store voucher.

 The term "smartphone" just doesn't do the category justice now, as the world's biggest mobile show in Barcelona is being used to unveil a host of super-computers in your hand, radical redesigns, media super-devices (like a 41 megapixel camera) and much more. Check out what's at the show from the likes of Sony, Nokia and others as the show gets underway.