Wednesday 8th September 2010 – Apple should be releasing the latest version of its operating system: iOS 4.1.  In anticipation we’ve put together a handy round-up of the key features just for you! Lets get the ball rolling… As you may be aware, iOS 4.1 will be available as a free update on Wednesday and [...]

So the advertising begins…it was announced in late August that Microsoft are planning to spend approx. $400 million advertising the Windows Phone 7 according to TechCrunch, and it seems that budget is in full swing. Viewers at a showing of Lawrence of Arabia at London’s Secret Cinema event were treated to a themed commercial for [...]

Research by the Local Government Association has found that using technologies such as  iPhone apps and Facebook has helped save councils £230 million over the last year. Some adoptions of these technologies have come in the form of iPhone apps that allow people to view hygiene ratings for restaurants, report fly-tipping and vandalism and purchase [...]

The UK postal service, Royal Mail, have released an ‘intelligent’ stamp which can be ‘read’ by Android and iPhone devices. In what is claimed to be a world first, the stamp takes advantage of image recognition technology and directs the viewer to an online video. Users will need to download Junaio, which is a free [...]

Prepare to launch…an iPad app that is! iPad users can now keep up-to-date with the goings on at NASA thanks to the NASA HD iPad app. The space exploration and scientific discovery company “invites you to discover a wealth of NASA information right on your iPad” according to their website. The app includes features such [...]

Apple September Media Event: Steve Jobs has announced that  iOS 4.1 will be available for iPhone and iPod Touch via iTunes as of next week. The new iOS 4.1 will include bug fixes on items such as proximity sensor, Bluetooth, and iPhone 3G performances but will also include the following new features: High Dynamic Range [...]

In an interview with Fox Business Network, Intel CEO Paul Otellini stated that Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, was ‘ very happy’ with the company’s acquiring of Infineon’s wireless chip unit. The chip making unit has worked closely with Apple over the past couple of years; producing a number of components for every generation of the [...]

iPhone app iStethoscope, which monitors patients heartbeats, has been downloaded by over 3 million doctors according to reports. Created by Dr Peter Bentley at the University College London, the iStrethoscope app is certainly taking the medical world by storm with over 500 daily downloads and suggestions that it could replace the use of actual stethoscopes [...]

Yes ok, we know we love sticking an ‘i’ in front of words, but doesn’t putting this particular vowel in front of any word make it cooler?! Maybe that’s just us…but one thing that we find quite cool is the iPad Orchestra. Playing ‘Sweet Dreams’ composed by Ilya Plavunov, the iPad Orchestra consists of a [...]

According to iPhone news site, 148Apps.biz,  the number of active apps on Apple’s App Store now sits at over 250,000; a figure which has been reached in just over two years. Of these quarter of a million apps, the most popular category is the Books section with over 43,000 apps. The Top Ten most popular [...]