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  Just as expected, Apple took a strike at the ripe digital textbook market today with the introduction of iBooks 2. Dubbed as a “brand new experience for the iPad,” the iBooks 2 app will allow users to download textbooks that are portable, durable, interactive as well as searchable. As with the functions of the [...]

Want to run your favourite Windows app on iPad, if yes, then the wait is over. OnLive Inc announced that it will launch the no-compromise Windows desktop to iPad through its free OnLive Desktop app. This will be available from the iTunes App store starting this Thursday. Onlive Desktop provides instant access to full-featured, media-rich [...]

  Back in June, Evernote released their Peek app that worked in conjunction with the iPad 2′s Smart Cover. For the uninitiated, Evernote Peek is a unique app that allows users to peek under the iPad Smart Cover to reveal bits of text, which helps in learning and memorizing. But Evernote understood the fact that [...]

  The most missed app for the iPad, the Facebook app launched today to provide iPad users the full Facebook experience. The application now makes it easier to scroll the news feeds with just fingertips. Besides this, it now offers, bigger and better photo viewing experience. Games, apps, groups and lists are in the left-hand [...]

Apple announced that the IOS 5 would be made freely available to iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, iPad, iPod touch (fourth generation) and iPod touch (third generation) from October 12. For a brief look of feature improvements of IOS 5, please click here.

  Skype has released Skype WiFi app that will enable iOS device owners to quickly find a wireless hotspot. Uniqueness of this app is that users can scan over 1 million Wi-Fi hotspots around the world to access the internet and get billed with the available Skype Credit. Another advantage of using Skype WiFi is [...]

  iPhone Dev Team and comex have announced the third iteration of JailbreakMe. JailbreakMe 3.0 works like the previous versions where a user just needs to visit the website to initiate the jailbreak. The web-based tool supports a number of Apple devices, including iPad 2. The full list of supported devices along with the iOS [...]

  New details about the upcoming iPhone and iPad have emerged, thanks to Bloomberg’s sources who are familiar with the plans. According to them, Apple’s next-generation iPhone will have a faster Apple A5 processor that is used in the iPad 2. Additionally, the source also says that the iPhone camera will also get an upgrade, [...]

  So it looks like a customer has filed a complaint before the Competition Commission of India under section 4 of the Competition Act 2002 alleging Apple abusing their dominant market position. The Competition Commission of India will review the complaint in a week but Apple will most likely get off the hook, thanks to [...]

  Feeling a bit restricted with the limited storage of your iDevice? Well, Seagate has got you covered with their GoFlex Satellite portable HDD. The 500GB hard drive is integrated with Wi-Fi and rechargeable battery, which can be connected to your iPod, iPhone or the iPad to stream content wirelessly on the device. All a [...]

  Well, that is quick. Apple has released the iOS 4.3.3 update for iDevices that fixes the infamous location data issue. The update as reported earlier, will help to reduce the size of the location cache, will no longer back up location data to iTunes and delete the cache when Location Services is turned off. [...]

  Bring it on, says Samsung. The Korean giant has hit back at Apple with three lawsuits over iPad and iPhone in three different countries. Samsung has filed a suit against Apple in South Korea, Japan and Germany for infringing five, two and three patents respectively. Samsung says Apple has infringed their patents related to [...]

  Apple posted very strong results of its second quarter for fiscal 2011 that ended on March 26, 2011. The company posted a record quarter revenue of $24.67 billion and net profit of $5.99 billion as compared to year-ago revenue of $13.50 billion and net profit of $3.07 billion. Apple also revealed the sales figures [...]

  The iPhone-Dev team has released a newer version of redsn0w that supports untethered jailbreak of iOS 4.3.2. Untethered jailbreak means a user wouldn’t lose the jailbreak even after a restart of the device. The jailbreak will work with all iOS devices supporting 4.3.2 including iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch 3G / 4G and [...]

  Apple Inc. has filed a suit against Samsung Electronics saying the Korean giant’s Galaxy devices like Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab infringe on a number of the company’s patents and trademarks. Apple has blatantly accused Samsung of copying iPhone and iPad’s hardware design as well as the user interface. To prove their point further, [...]