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Apple will debut incredible in-house 3D Maps app next month

Apple will debut its own completely self-engineered Maps application at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next month as it unveils the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS6.

Samsung Galaxy S III details confirmed on Amazon pre-order listing

3 weeks ago by Darren McCarra

Details concerning Samsung’s successor to its flagship Galaxy S II device have been confirmed on an Amazon Germany pre-order page. The Galaxy S III will be officially unveiled at an event in London on May 3.

500px releases new Android app, upgrades iPad app

3 weeks ago by Darren McCarra

500px has today shored-up its mobile offerings by introducing its first ever Android app. The app is both tablet and phone friendly, and brings the same elegance we’ve come to expect of 500px to the Android community.

Read it Later rebrands as Pocket, free for all

4 weeks ago by Darren McCarra

Read it Later, one of the most popular paid-for apps across all mobile platforms, has rebranded itself as Pocket – and what’s more is now completely free.

Separate news from noise with Storyful’s new iPhone app

4 weeks ago by Darren McCarra

Storyful, a service that separates news from the noise of the real-time web, has released an iPhone application. Last month, Storyful released Storyful Direct for iPhone, an application that allows citizen journalists to easily submit media content to Storyful for verification.

Natural disaster? There’s an app (planned) for that

5 weeks ago by Piers Dillon Scott

The UK government is proposing the creation of a digital & social strategy for the management of disaster recovery efforts after natural disasters.

Wikipedia updates mobile apps, ditches Google Maps

5 weeks ago by Darren McCarra

Wikipedia released updates to both its Android and iOS apps earlier this week. In the process they decided, as others have, to ditch Google Maps in favour of OpenStreetMap.

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6 weeks ago by Piers Dillon Scott

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Smartphone usage equals feature phone usage for first time

6 weeks ago by Darren McCarra

The number of people using smartphones in the United States now equals the number of people using feature phones for the first time.

How much does Android make? Not much, apparently

6 weeks ago by Darren McCarra

How much does Android operating system earn Google? Not much according to The Guardian. In fact, between 2008 and 2011 Android generated only $543 million in revenue – somewhat insignificant when compared to Google’s $38 billion total revenue in 2011.

Apple’s latest two mobile innovations on top of the world, literally

7 weeks ago by Darren McCarra

Apple’s latest two mobile innovations, the iPhone 4S and the new iPad, will literally be on top of the world this spring as they become part of the high-tech gear used to climb the world’s summit – Mount Everest.

China overtakes the US for new iOS & Android activations

8 weeks ago by Piers Dillon Scott

More smartphone/tablet devices are activated in China each day than the States, & this new trend is likely to continue.

New iPad now accounts for 5% of iPad market

8 weeks ago by Darren McCarra

The new iPad now accounts for almost 5% of the iPad family web traffic share just days after being released. The new iPad was released in 10 countries in total on Friday March 16.

Apple’s Siri gets lost in translation on Japanese release

9 weeks ago by Piers Dillon Scott

iPhone users in Japan report that Siri is having trouble understanding Japanese – Apple says it’ll become better as more people use it.

Instagram arriving on Android “very soon”

9 weeks ago by Darren McCarra

Instagram, the hugely popular photo-sharing and filtering app, currently only available on iOS, is arriving on Android “very soon”, having passed 27 million registered users in recent days.

Apple ditches Google Maps in favour of OpenStreetMap, just like Foursquare

9 weeks ago by Darren McCarra

Apple launched iPhoto for iPad yesterday, complete with the usual integrated mapping features. However, unlike its desktop counterpart, iPhoto for iOS uses OpenStreetMap (OSM) data, with Apple apparently deciding to ditch Google Maps on this product.

The new iPad and our seven pet peeves

10 weeks ago by Darren McCarra

Apple’s big iPad announcement has just finished, with almost all plausible rumours circulating over the past few months proven to be true.

Google Play takes on iTunes/iCloud & Android’s fragmented ecosystem

10 weeks ago by Piers Dillon Scott

Google re-brands Android Market, Google Music, Google eBookstore into Google Play to take on Apple iTunes,iCloud

Now you can continue your recent Google search on Android and iPhone

10 weeks ago by Darren McCarra

Google has added a new Recent icon to Google.com on Android and iPhone, conveniently placing recent searches only a tap away.

Apple user in China downloads iTunes’ 25 billionth app

10 weeks ago by Piers Dillon Scott

Apple’s 25 billionth app download heads east as the Chinese and Asian markets becomes increasingly important in the smartphone market.