Google has pulled off a coup by hiring an Apple senior director of product integrity for a secret project, VentureBeat has learned. The recruiting feat is historic since Google has never hired such a senior person away from Apple… Tweet This Post

1. Created with the Stop-Motion Camera App This simple short was made with the Stop-Motion Camera app. It’s incredibly easy to use.Click here to view this gallery.Stop-motion animation used to be a complicated, time-consuming process, but the emergence of easy, automated apps make it something creative that anyone can try — for free! We have [...]

Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This week, we’ve spotted a leaked Android 4.0.4 ROM for the Nexus S 4G, and we’ve also come across a price and release date for [...]

Even if you throw the exploding tablet market in with the staid PC market, shipments of smartphones surpassed those of “client PCs” in 2011, a milestone for the computer industry. New data released by Canalys shows that smartphone vendors shipped 488 million smartphones during 2011, a 62… Tweet This Post

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the last 24 hours has been dealt not one but two blows in court cases involving Motorola (NYSE: MMI) and patents in Germany, one involving IP licensing on older iPhone models (not the 4S) and one involving iCloud… Tweet This Post

Seth Porges is a magazine editor and the creator of Cloth, an iOS fashion app for iPhone and iPod Touch. His Twitter handle is @sethporges. App appeal is obvious. The barrier to entry? So low! The upshot of producing the next Angry Birds or beer-chug simulator? So high! Heck, with just a small investment of [...]

iPhone 4S owners may get to listen to the dulcet tones of Siri, but users of earlier iPhone models can also enjoy similar high-tech wonders through Apple’s “Voice Control” functionality… Tweet This Post

The latest figures are in from IDC: the top three global smartphone makers are Nokia, Samsung and Apple, in that order. Drilling down into the figures finds some surprises: Cupertino’s third-place with only 8… Tweet This Post

It was five years ago that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) executives brushed off the idea of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as “not a threat” to Nokia’s top position in mobile sales. After all, Apple was only making smartphones and Nokia was still leading in that still-niche category, as well as mobiles overall… Tweet This Post

You love your smartphone — and who can blame you, really? There’s seemingly no limit to what it can do. But ask yourself this: does it look enough like a gun? The answer is almost certainly a big, fat “no… Tweet This Post

Need to sign a contract, like, now? There’s an app for that. Several actually, but the folks who create EasySignMobile have gone and made their service a bit more accessible to the unwashed masses with an updated version that supports Facebook authentication… Tweet This Post

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has accused Samsung of “slavishly copying” its hardware designs; but whether or not that is true, one area where Samsung is taking a note from Apple is in how it debuts its big products… Tweet This Post