Archive : Mobile

Apple has been pulling all stops to improve its Maps app after the debacle of its Maps app, Apple has reportedly bought crowd-sourced location data company Locationary. Google is continuously improving it’s popular Google Maps app, Google’s acquisition of Waze, the GPS navigation app was a step in this direction. Locationary is located out of Canada and focuses on improving searching for [...]

Evernote has released a new version for its app for iPad and iPhone which adds shortcuts to notes, tags, files and more, related notes for premium users, and support for Skitch app to add images to the notes. “For the latest Evernote for iPhone and iPad update (5.4), we’re adding features that will help you rediscover your notes, jump to the content that’s important to you, easily annotate [...]

Facebook users logging on to Facebook through their mobile phones in June rose around 20 percent in the UK and US according to Facebook. Facebook said its mobile monthly active users increased by 18 percent in the United States and by 22 percent in Britain in June compared with the previous year. There was a direct impact on Facebook’s mobile advertising revenues, Facebook’s mobile advertising [...]

Apple and Samsung are engaged in numerous acrimonious and bitter Court battles across the World which has made Apple to buy less components for its devices from the Korean giant with a bulk of it’s parts supply for this year and the next coming from TSMC, that seem to change, the Korea Economic Daily is reporting that Apple will be back to using Samsung as the supplier for the A9 chip in [...]

Faced with immense competition from iOS and Android devices, Microsoft is cutting the price of its Surface RT tablet by around 30 percent, as the mobile tablet struggles to lure customers from competition. The Surface RT is now pricedd at £279 instead of £399 in UK which brings it very close to Apple iPad mini’s £279  cost, Surface RT now costs only £10 more than Apple’s iPad mini. The [...]

Apple’s App Store which was launched on July 10, 2008 completes five years this week  Apple is celebrating  in a big way. On the eve of the anniversary according to reports by The Verge. You can access the new section featuring 5 apps and 5 games free for a limited time from iTunes on your Mac or the App Store on your iOS device.   The list of freebie apps and games include: Infinity [...]

Popular iOS and Android music discovery app Shazam which boasts of over 300 million users has got a funding of  US $40 million by Carlos Slim, one of the world’s richest men. Slim, is considered one of the richest man in the world and is known for his investments in foreign telecommunications businesses. Shazam executive chairman Andrew Fisher said Shazam is adding more than 2.5 million [...]

America’s Boston University is suing Apple claiming that Apple ripped off a one of it’s professor’s patented electronic semiconductor and used it in iPhone 5, iPad and MacBook Air. “Defendant’s acts of infringement have caused and will continue to cause substantial and irreparable damage to the University,” BU alleges in its complaint in a lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. District [...]

Vine has introduced a new version of its iPhone app  on Wednesday. The latest version 1.3 introduces 15 new channels for different categories of content that users can submit and browse, a new protected accounts feature, and a number of new camera features. Vine publsihed a blog post announcing the update and highlighting some of the new features. We’re happy to introduce new parts of Vine that [...]

Apple has landed the top spot for customer satisfaction in South Korea, its main rival Samsung ‘s country according to  information  from Quality Insights. Quality Insights  surveyed  44,168 South Korean smartphone owners, who rated their satisfaction on the phones performance and customer service over a one year period. Apple’s overall ranking for customer satisfaction was 52 percent, [...]