You might think app design is the same, whether the software is being developed for iOS or Android. But creating highly polished, elegant-looking apps is simply easier to do when developing for iOS. That’s the prevailing conventional wisdom among developers who code for both platforms.Design is built into Apple’s DNA. Google’s legacy, on the other [...]

The very nature of mobile-sharing apps has changed the types of imagery that people upload. There is also an added on-the-move life-streaming nature to the whole thing. Photos found on the flowing Instagram news feed don’t look like the ones on Flickr.Instagram is a community conducive to likes and comments, whereas Flickr focuses more on [...]

One of the worst-kept secrets in the technology space- Google Drive, is finally here — live and yours to explore.But if you’re already using a cloud service, or maybe even a couple of services the question undoubtedly arises, Do you really need another cloud platform? This question gets more complicated when you consider that Google [...]

Bowel Mover Pro ($0.99 iPhone/iPad) Aficionados of the long-running sitcom Scrubs will know this one essential fact: Everything comes down to poo. Really. Tracking your bowel movements is apparently a great way to monitor your health on a day-to-day basis. This app will help you track what you ate and how it turned into a [...]

Google has revealed its long-rumored plans to create augmented reality eyeglasses.Augmented reality is a live, direct or indirect view of a physical environment that’s augmented by computer-generated input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data.Work on the AR glasses is proceeding as Project Glass, which is part of a Google X Lab, a facility [...]

The “Angry Birds” franchise is one of the App Store’s biggest success stories. When it debuted almost two and a half years ago, its developers hit on a potent formula for casual gaming profits. Make it colorful, make it work nicely with a touchscreen, and make it really easy to figure out. Then throw in [...]

Although Nokia’s Lumia 900 handset hasn’t hit the U.S. market yet, it’s already made headlines, impressing the world as a viable Windows Phone alternative to a smartphone market dominated by Apple and Google. It’s reasonable then for Nokia to follow up its declaration of war with an entry into the tablet game, as the latest [...]

It is shaping up to be a critical year for mobile tech.Now There are new issues, and new challengers other than endless iOS versus Android market share reports, making 2012′s mobile landscape more complex and more important than ever before. Windows 8 is emerging as a viable threat to the iPad, while Android tablets continue [...]

Apple’s newest version of iPhoto is using maps from OpenStreetMaps instead of Google Maps for its journals and slideshow features as shown during the announcement of the latest iPad.But,Google Maps is still the default source of data for other areas of iOS,and iPhoto maps are now using information  by OpenStreetMaps. That organization gathers data from [...]

If you’ve visited basically any of Google’s major services over the last several weeks, you may have noticed a little orange box that pops up as soon as you get to the page, sometimes hanging out right over the spot saying “We’re changing our privacy policy and terms. This stuff matters. Learn more or dismiss.” [...]