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Google is on an application-launching spree for iOS. Google in December launched YouTube Capture for iOS and in January launched Google Coordiate for iOS. But the spree is not stopping there – Google has Thursday released yet another application for iOS.

This application is called Field Trip. The application promises to keep you updated on interesting things near you by running in the background and notifying ...

Rovio has just made their hit game Angry Birds free in the App Store for the first time in history. According to TechCrunch, the game has been chosen for the App of the Week. This is the original version of the game without any Space, Star Wars, Rio, or Seasonal twists to it.

It’s also notable that not only is the iPhone and iPod touch version of the game currently free in the App Store, ...

Path recently released version 3.0 of its iOS app, which comes packed with one-to-one and group messaging as well as an in-app store called The Shop, which offers access to “stickers” and special photo filters. The new features are an effort to earn some money and keep up against competitors.

The messaging feature is similar to Facebook’s recent update with the exception that Path allows users to insert ...

Apple gives iMessage users the ability to send read receipts. This feature allows the sender to know when the recipient has read the sender’s iMessage. While some people like this feature and some people hate it, one thing is certain: it could definitely be made better with some additional flexibility.

iOS developer joedj keeps this in mind with his latest release – SelectiveReading. This tweak will allow the user to choose multiple ...

With the growing number of iOS devices and their firmwares, it can be hard to know exactly what firmware file to download, and where to get it. A new Mac tool makes it very easy to find and download the firmware file you need.

The tool is called F1rmware by iOS developer Bradley Friedman of iOS development team Hashbang Productions.

As shown above, the user interface is extremely easy to follow. ...

According to the latest industry estimates, mobile payment transactions are projected to reach $1.3 trillion by 2017. Playing a huge role in this development will be mobile POS systems that involve today's top tablets and smartphones.

As of early 2013, smartphones have reached fifty percent market penetration with eighty percent expected well before the close of this decade. As a result of rapid smartphone adoption, ...

Those of you that are modders – and we know there’s a lot of you out there – you can grab a new jailbreak tweak in Cydia today called CalliFy by iOS developers D3@TH and Aehmlo that will let you customize the text on the call button in the Phone application (iPhone only).

The default text string of the call button in the Phone application is “Call,” however the tweak lets you change this string to anything you want – as long as it’s within ...

Although BlackBerry and Windows phones are hoping for a trickle-down effect in the smartphone space (that is, picking up users leaving Android or iOS) it appears that the majority of iOS and Android users are going to stick with one of these two dominant platforms.

These days, in fact, when Android loses smartphone market share, it goes almost exclusively to iOS. That's according to the ...

Twitter has just launched an update to the free iOS application in the App Store, bringing it to version 5.4 this Wednesday afternoon.

The update makes note of some improvements to searching for things on Twitter – according to the change log, you will receive more results pertaining to your query in real time and suggestions will pop up when you add a hash tag or Twitter handle to a Tweet. Also, when searching ...

iOS 6 shipped with a new panorama feature for the Camera application. The feature is enabled on the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, and iPod touch 5G. While the feature is nice, Apple left out one important feature – what do you do when the lighting conditions aren't great? Apple has actually disabled the ability to use the flash while taking a panorama shot.

To fix this, a new jailbreak tweak called Flashorama by iOS developer PoomSmart will give the ...

Late Tuesday, word emerged from the far east that suggests production on Apple's forthcoming iPhone 5S has begun.

Macotakara, the Japanese Apple blog, reports that both the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5S are now being produced on the sames assembly lines at Foxconn. Given that the respective designs of both phones are practically the same, Apple is mass-producing both devices simultaneously. ...