If you’ve been toting around two smartphones, one for work and one for your personal life, you might be able to ditch one of them using a “phone-in-a-phone” platform that will soon come to market. The VMware Horizon Mobile solution lets you run both work and personal mobile environments separately on the same device. READ MORE
On Thursday, Apple stores worldwide will get a radical makeover, in conjunction with Apple’s new Apple Store app. First, customers who order Apple products online will be able to pick them up at an Apple store within 12 minutes of completing the order. Since they’ll have already paid online, they can simply sign for the item and walk out with it, bypassing lines and cash registers. READ MORE
If you’re among the thousands of users who’ve run into trouble trying to download and install iOS 5 on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch–or if you’ve installed it without a hitch but now your device is malfunctioning–you may be able to set things right by following the procedures outlined on Cult of Mac. READ MORE
Now that Apple has launched its new iCloud service, some users are finding it very confusing to set up. To help, Apple has come out with a step-by-step guide that tells users exactly how to get iCloud going on all the devices that can use it: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac and PC. (What, no Android?) READ MORE
Wednesday’s long-awaited announcement that Amazon is entering the tablet game with their $199 Amazon Kindle Fire was an appropriate follow-up to news from earlier in the month that the world’s largest Internet store (with revenue of $34 billion in 2010) was testing a major redesign of their website, in short optimizing the shopping experience for tablet devices. READ MORE
I travel frequently for story assignments. When I do, I have a hard time finding good places to work. Holing up in a hotel room is dull, and coffee shops tend to be noisy and ill suited for meetings. So when I read about a new crop of websites designed to help you find a temporary workspace, I was eager to give one a whirl. READ MORE
Last week Inc. posted a wildly popular story about the latest in marketing technology that featured things like billboards that use facial recognition, try-before-you-buy displays that use augmented reality and movie trailers that can change in real time depending on the gender of a viewer. READ MORE
Color CEO Bill Nguyen has re-launched the innovative but poorly implemented social discovery app as a Facebook app for Android and iPhone. Color for Facebook is the second go for the company, a $41-million-funded start-up that faltered out of the gate. READ MORE
If you’re overwhelmed by the panoply of tablets out there (and who wouldn’t be?) CNET’s Harry McCracken helps cut through some of the clutter with a thoughtful analysis of the various operating systems now challenging (or no longer challenging) Apple’s iOS and the iPad. READ MORE
Instagram has released Version 2.0 of its popular mobile photo app, with clear designs on longevity. The company will soon hit the 10-million-user mark, and this new release features some cool new features that will keep Instagram users happy. READ MORE
