August 30, 2010

Marketcircle releases Billings Pro for small, medium businesses

Productivity software-maker, Marketcircle, has been very busy this past year, releasing Mac and iPhone apps, and announcing an iPad app too. The company on Monday turned its attention back to the Mac with the release Billings Pro.

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August 1, 2010

JailbreakMe returns, offers jailbreak for iPhone 4 and iPad

JailbreakMe.com, a website that offers users a way to jailbreak their iPhones, has returned.

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June 5, 2010

iPhone OS has triple the market share of Android

It turns out the back-and-forth race between Apple and Google in the mobile operating system wars may not be so back-and-forth after all. A new study from Nielsen puts Apple’s iPhone market share at 28 percent and Google’s Android at 9 percent. That gives Apple more than three times that of Google. The numbers put [...]

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June 4, 2010

Apple shows-off the power of HTML5

If you were wondering why Apple chose HTML5 over Flash for the iPhone and iPad, you can see for yourself now. The company posted several examples of the types of content that can be made using the technology. Included in the showcase are video, audio, picture galleries and more. It’s definitely worth a look. Apple [...]

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May 26, 2010

The Windows era is coming to an end

The domination of Microsoft Windows may very well be coming to an end. I’m not saying that tomorrow we will wake up and nobody will know what Windows is, but the signs of its decline are all around us. The biggest of those signs is Microsoft’s inability to compete in the mobile market, especially against [...]

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May 24, 2010

iPhone, iPad popularity forces designers reconsider use of Flash

Web site designers may want to continue using Flash, but their clients ultimately have the final say in how a Web site looks and more of them are asking for iPhone and iPad ready sites.

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May 19, 2010

Google says multitasking, apps hurt Android’s battery life

Google co-founder Larry Page admitted during a talk at Google’s annual partner forum, Google Zeitgeist, that multitasking and some apps could drain the battery of its Android phone.

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May 11, 2010

Android market share over iPhone not as impressive as it looks

When news broke on Monday that Android had taken over the second spot from Apple’s iPhone OS, I thought the Internet was going to blow itself to pieces. But there is more to the numbers than a simple boost in Android sales and Apple agrees.

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April 20, 2010

Adobe abandons iPhone app building technology in CS5

Adobe caused quite a stir when it first introduced its iPhone app building technology in Flash CS5, but it seems the company will abandon it before anyone really gets a chance to utilize it.

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April 14, 2010

Gruber explains mobile multitasking

We all know that multitasking is an important part of iPhone OS 4, mostly because we’ve been told its important. Multitasking, or the ability to run multiple applications at the same time, is not an easy feat of engineering, but Daring Fireball’s John Gruber breaks it down and makes it easy to understand. If you’ve [...]

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April 9, 2010

Gruber on why Apple changed the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement

Daring Fireball’s John Gruber has a great article on why Apple decided to make some changes to the iPhone license agreement. He nailed it when he said that Apple cannot afford to let another company have control over how apps are made for Apple’s iPhone OS. Some good perspective. So from Apple’s perspective, changing the [...]

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April 8, 2010

iAds to become part of iPhone OS 4

Apple on Thursday announced a new feature for developers that will be available in iPhone OS 4 — iAds.

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Apple announces multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0

One of the operating system features that Apple has been hit hardest for since the iPhone OS first hit the market is its lack of multitasking. iPhone 4.0 will bring an end to those criticisms.

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April 5, 2010

Apple to hold special event April 8 to unveil next iPhone OS

Apple on Monday announced a special media event at it’s Cupertino, Calif. headquarters to give users a sneak peek at “the future of the iPhone OS.”

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March 31, 2010

Report: iPhone 4.0 multitasking to be like Mac OS X Expose

One of the major knocks about the iPhone has been its lack of multitasking. In other words, when you exit an app, it shuts down completely.

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March 8, 2010

iPhone, iPad operating systems to unify with OS 4.1

Like many people this afternoon, I read John Gruber’s post — iPhone apps on the iPad — at Daring Fireball with great interest. While I agree with almost everything he said, I disagree with one small point — when the iPad and iPhone OS will become unified.