Finland-based app development company Nearparent Ltd. has recently announced the launch of its Nearparent mobile app that enables parents to build a network of adults to assist their children when in need. The location-based mobile app is available for iOS and Android mobile devises and is also compatible for non-smartphone users via SMS. Nearparent is a closed social...
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Griffin has announced that its newest music product, the Stompbox, is available now. Stompbox is a physical pedal board that, when connected to a guitar and an iOS device, enables users to add a number of programmable effects to your instrument. Stompbox allows users to enhance the capabilities of apps like Frontier Group’s Guitar, iShred and iShred LIVE. Instruments...
The competition between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android heats up today as T3 announces its list of nominees for the T3 Gadget Awards 2011. Steve Jobs’ Apple devices gets 15 nominations, while Google and its Android operating system gets 18. The Apple iPad 2 gets six nominations, including overall Gadget of the Year, and it is going against Amazon’s...
Apple released the third beta version of its new iOS 5 to developers on Monday, a sign that the tech company is readying the new software for its public launch this year. Also included in the beta release is Apple’s iTunes 10.5 beta 3. The new beta version replaces version 2, which was released to developers on June 24. Unlike the previous version that added the...
According to a recent study conducted by research company Nielsen, the normal iPhone owner spends twice the average time playing mobile games. The research also shows that 93 percent of smartphone users are willing to pay for games, while 87 percent are willing to pay for non-gaming apps. According to the study, Apple iPhone owners have spent 14.7 hours last month playing...
iOS, Apple’s mobile operating system that powers the company’s iPhone and iPad, has more protection than its rival Android, security experts at Symantec recently reported. This week, the security company Symantec published “A Window Into Mobile Device Security,” a 23-page publication that details Apple and Google’s security approaches in their...
With the release of Apple’s new iOS 5 this autumn (Fall for our American readers), jailbreakers might find jailbreaking more difficult than usual. While iPhone Dev Team was examining the code for the iOS 5 beta 2, it was discovered that Apple is placing measures to make it harder for users who use iOS 5 to revert back to earlier versions of the iOS. More advanced...
The Apple iPhone 5 hans’t even been given an official release date, or even been confirmed as being a reality and people are already comparing it to another phone that will release at the end of Q3 to Q4. The Nexus 4G will be the likely Android contender when the iPhone launches later this year and rumored specs for the two phones are popping up all over the internet. Apple...
How about this for a stat to make you choke on your early morning cornflakes or late night kebab. In March of this year Apple customers downloaded a staggering 5 million games. Per day! Actually, that’s not quite true. The figures come from market research firms Newzoo and Distimo and they were only tracking 63 million users during this time. So the true total has got...
The future of free apps which are upgradable to paid versions is likely to be resolved in the next couple of weeks, and all thanks to US patent no. 7,222,078. What is that patent, we hear you ask. Well, it comes from a firm called Lodsys and it seems that these guys have got the “methods and systems for gathering information from units of a commodity across a network”...