The post-PC era continues to see tablets and smartphones drive overall growth, researchers claim, with traditional PC shipments predicted to decline more than 10-percent this year. 2013 sales of computing hardware – including tablets, smartphones, and PCs – are expected to grow 5.9-percent year on year in 2013, Gartner calculates, but that will be predominantly
If there are weather apps, calendar apps and to do list apps, there should be an app that spits out an optimal schedule for you to follow. What’s the point of jogging in the rain and then doing laundry when the sun comes out? Or maybe you like to run in the rain because it cools you off. Or you’re really pale and trying to avoid direct sun. Whatever. It’s between you and Foresee now.
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Instagram’s new video feature may have been the most hyped app to hit the market this week, but that doesn’t mean there’s not a whole world of awesome iOS just waiting to be downloaded. And this week’s set all do a little something to make your life easier—now doesn’t that sound nice?
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We’re no stranger to Android’s iconic pie chart that shows the percentage of what OS version is currently out there in the world. As expected, Android has a lot of versions that are scattered around, with Jelly Bean, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Gingerbread being the top three that are in use, with older versions like
Apple surely loves its third-party app developers, but it doesn’t love them equally. The company reserves special affection for those who optimize their apps for the latest version of iOS and its integrated services (Passbook, Game Center, Maps etc.), and we guess that’s why the official iOS Dev Center has published the chart above. Based on two weeks’ worth of recent data, it shows that 93 percent of iOS users who visited the App Store were on iOS 6, while just one in a hundred were on something lower than iOS 5, implying that fragmentation isn’t something for devs to fret over. Of course, as Appleinsider points out, Cupertino may have had other reasons for choosing this specific style of presentation, since it begs to be compared against Android’s fortnightly pie chart (shown below).
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Mobile, Apple
Via: Appleinsider
Source: iOS Dev Center
MacRumors has laid its hands on a couple of images purporting to show the inside and rear shell of the next iPhone.
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Zeebox is making good on its cooperation with Gracenote today with the announcement that the second screen app can now automatically identify what you’re watching through analysis of the show’s “audio fingerprint.” Several second screen TV apps use similar technology to sync up with what’s on TV, although this implementation is more closely matched to what we’ve seen from IntoNow. Naturally, use of the latest feature is entirely optional, which includes the ability to automatically listen in when you start the app, along the with ability to manually activate the function by tapping a microphone icon. Gracenote reps tell us that Zeebox records a short, Vine-length audio clip, and then generates an audio profile based on that, which is recognized by Gracenote’s Entourage system — the audio recording itself never leaves your device. The new functionality is available on all versions of Zeebox, which includes Android, BlackBerry and iOS, but the ability for Gracenote to automatically identify shows is limited to programs that’ve aired in the past seven days.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Software, HD
Source: Zeebox (App Store), Google Play, BlackBerry World
This afternoon, the team at Facebook have introduced their brand Instagram‘s new ability to record video clips. “Video for Instagram” will be added to both iOS and Android with a collection of 15 filters made specifically for the video universe. This new feature will be clipped into 15-second segments and able to be posted to
Rdio, the streaming service that hates the letter a, has updated its iOS app to help users find new, yet similar, music. Song Stations will generate playlists from a single artist, which folds in related music as it goes. The feature will let you preview the next four tracks in the list, giving you the power to skip as many time as you like — just in case you find yourself trapped in a singer’s middle-period creative slump. Rdio has also added autoplay to the app, so when your current playlist has ended, it’ll find something similar to ensure you’re never plunged into an awkward silence.
Filed under: Portable Audio/Video, Software, Apple
Source: Rdio (App Store)
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