
Mobile technology developer MoboTap has released a version of its Dolphin Browser for iOS. The browser, which the company says improves the quality of web-browsing on an iPhone or iPod Touch, has 9 million users on the Android platform. READ MORE


Mobile technology developer MoboTap has released a version of its Dolphin Browser for iOS. The browser, which the company says improves the quality of web-browsing on an iPhone or iPod Touch, has 9 million users on the Android platform. READ MORE

Another school year is right around the corner, which usually means there’s plenty of back-to-school shopping to be had. However, rather than buy notebooks, pencils, highlighters, and calculators, students can replace all of their school needs with a slew of instrumental, easy-to-use apps for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. READ MORE

While Android is winning the overall market share of smartphone OS, a study by mobile ad network Jumptap breaks down state by state where Google’s mobile platform remains king. READ MORE
The applications platform market is often a game of Tug of War. And Apple is pulling developers toward the iOS platform—and away from Android—really hard. According to a report from Flurry Analytics, Android project starts for the second quarter of 2011 account for just 28 percent of the market, down from 36 percent in the first quarter of this year. Apple iPhone/iPod touch project starts now account for 57 percent and iPad project starts have risen from 10 percent in the first quarter to 15 percent. READ MORE

Thanks to the popularity of the iPad 2 and iPhone 4, App Store downloads are up 61 percent this year over 2010. According to Gene Munster, a tech analyst for investment firm Piper Jaffray, iOS users are downloading 32.3 million apps per day at an average of 83 apps per user, up from 51 apps last year. READ MORE

Germany is issuing another warning. This time, though, it has nothing to do with a debt crisis. This recent Achtung, released by Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) says that Apple’s iPhone, iPads, and iPod Touch devices are vulnerable to malware delivered via PDF. Devices running versions up to iOS 4.3.3. could be at risk if users click on the infected file, giving a hacker administrator privileges and thus access to data such as passwords, banking information, and even the built-in camera. READ MORE

Apple’s iOS App Store, which houses 425,000 free and paid applications for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, has achieved 15 billion app downloads, the company announced yesterday. READ MORE

Apple yesterday announced updates to its iWork application bundle for iOS, with universal versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote moving beyond iPad tablet functionality and onto your third-generation iPod Touch or iPhone 3GS and higher. Not that you’d necessarily want to edit documents or spreadsheets on a 3.5″ screen (nor be forced to use the correspondingly tiny touchscreen keypad), but it is nice to know it’s there, along with iDisk support and AirPrint to iOS functionality, should you need it in an emergency. READ MORE
Have you ever seen an amazing photo and wondered about the moment before the image was frozen in time? A new social photo app for Apple users, currently in Beta, might just let you answer that burning question. Glmps adds a new twist to image capture and sharing: It lets users store the first five seconds of their image as video, then combines video and image into one package. They can then share the package on Facebook, Twitter and other social sites. READ MORE

Monday through Wednesday in New York City TechCrunch is holding its Disrupt Battlefield competition in which hopeful founders and entrepreneurs submit their young, unseen start-up companies for the opportunity to try winning a $50,000 prize while launching in front of an all-star panel made up of innovators, angel investors, venture capitalists and tech influencers. Tuesday featured three Battlefields: Disrupting the Real World, Disrupting the Enterprise and Disrupting Streams and Collaborations. These start-ups made presentations in the Disrupting Streams and Collaborations category: READ MORE