Rumors have been flying around about Apple’s new approach to iOS interface design ever since Apple Jony Ive took over on interface design following the departure of Senior VP Scott Forstall.
Ever since the days of MS Paint, you know, the old Windows 95 guilty pleasure, we as a simple and easily humored people have loved drawing doodles on things, of things, around things. This childish and rudimentary eagerness is now transformed to both iPhone and iPad with You Doodle. The devs at Digital Ruby have reignited the desire to bedazzle everything, but require IAP to really drive the fun.
AT&T has just added a new hidden charge to wireless bills for all of their customers with post-paid accounts. As noted by The Verge, the new “administrative fee” amounts to just $0.61 per month (for a total of $7.32 per year), and is explained as a way to “help defray certain expenses AT&T incurs”.
Photography has become a huge part of people’s everyday lives with the introduction of the digital camera, smart phones and tablets everyone is a photographer. There are plenty of apps on the market to post and share photos, which leads to reproduction of those uploaded images, how do you ensure you get credit where credit is due? Meet Visual Watermark.
Following in the footsteps of Google, Apple, and others, Twitter has finally announced two-step authentication for Twitter accounts – an important extra measure for protecting your account security.
Mailbox, the popular email client that first launched on the iPhone, has announced the release of their iPad version of the app. Today’s version 1.3 update makes it a universal app that runs on all iOS devices.
In an unsurprising confirmation, Apple has officially announced to AllThingsD that their WWDC keynote will take place on June 10th – the first day of the conference – at 10 AM Pacific. The event will be held at San Francisco’s Moscone Center – the traditional venue for the event.
MarketWatch took a look at the state of the iPhone 5 repair industry, and found that costs for display replacements remain very high right months after the debut of the device.
Rugged mobile device case maker OtterBox has announced that it has acquired TreeFrog Developments Inc., DBA LifeProof for an undisclosed amount, and has officially dropped allegations of patent infringement against the company. The announcement was made at the CTIA conference on Wednesday.
Well-known industry analyst Michael Gartenberg has left his post at Gartner to join Apple’s marketing team, reports Forbes. Gartner was one of the precious few decent industry analysts of his day, and has long been openly fond of Apple’s products and corporate directions.
Corning seems to feel a little threatened by the possible future use of sapphire in the place of Gorilla Glass as a resilient covering for smartphone displays, as it has published a feature outlining why its latest Gorilla Glass 3 is a better option than sapphire for mobile device displays
Apple is reportedly on track to double the amount of money that it spends lobbying politicians this year. The increase in spending comes as the iOS device maker is coming under increasing fire in Washington for alleged tax avoidance.
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a new research report this week, and in it he says he believes that hardware and software issues may combine to push the debut of Apple’s much rumored “iWatch” back to the second half of 2014.
Ireland finds itself in the spotlight following Apple executive’s testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Tax Strategies, and the ultra-low tax nation is now calling for an international crackdown on tax dodging by multinational corporations.