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Apple removes Android app listings from Chomp
Apple has removed all Android app listings from Chomp, the app search and discovery service that it acquired in February of this year.
Darren McCarra
27th April 2012
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Google Drive launching next week with 5GB of free storage
Google Drive will launch next week, most likely next Tuesday or Wednesday, and offer 5GB of free storage, according to the good folks at TNW.
Darren McCarra
17th April 2012
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Personal cloud service Jolicloud Me hits 100,000 user mark
Jolicloud Me, a personal cloud service that attempts to organise your online assets across the social web, has reached 100,000 users after being released in private beta less than one month ago.
Darren McCarra
13th April 2012
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Instagram's zero to $1 billion valuation within 19 months [Infographic]
Instagram has always been a stand-out app ever since it first launched on the iPhone in October 2010. Some 19 months later, however, who'd have thought it would be acquired by Facebook for $1 billion?
Darren McCarra
11th April 2012
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Wikipedia updates mobile apps, ditches Google Maps
Wikipedia released updates to both its Android and iOS apps earlier this week. In the process they decided, as others have, to ditch Google Maps in favour of OpenStreetMap.
Darren McCarra
7th April 2012
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Instagram arriving on Android "very soon"
Instagram, the hugely popular photo-sharing and filtering app, currently only available on iOS, is arriving on Android "very soon", having passed 27 million registered users in recent days.
Darren McCarra
12th March 2012
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Apple ditches Google Maps in favour of OpenStreetMap, just like Foursquare
Apple launched iPhoto for iPad yesterday, complete with the usual integrated mapping features. However, unlike its desktop counterpart, iPhoto for iOS uses OpenStreetMap (OSM) data, with Apple apparently deciding to ditch Google Maps on this product.
Darren McCarra
8th March 2012
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Easily untag yourself from Facebook photos using this free iPhone app
Legitimate privacy concerns or embarrassing photos from last weekend's office party means that Facebook users often want to untag images of themselves on mass - something which Facebook deliberately makes difficult.
Darren McCarra
23rd February 2012
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Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than Macs in their 28-year history
Apple sold more iOS devices last year than Macs in their entire 28-year history, having been originally introduced by Steve Jobs in 1984. In 2011, Apple sold 156 million iOS devices, while, since introduction, Apple has only sold 122 million Macs.
Darren McCarra
17th February 2012
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Apple mobile web traffic eclipses that of desktop for the first time
Overall internet usage on Apple's mobile products may have exceeded that of its desktop products for the first time, that's according to web market share data from analytics firm Chitika.
Darren McCarra
12th February 2012