Weekly Mobile News Roundup – 24 May 2013

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On May 24, 2013

  Once again the week is coming to an end and that means it’s time for a roundup of the past weeks news! Steve Jobs Emails Show How to Win a Hard-Nosed Negotiation – he U.S. government’s price-fixing lawsuit against Apple goes to trial next month in New York. Ahead of its court date, the U.S. released emails that […]

Apple confirms WWDC Keynote will take place June 10th

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On May 23, 2013

Today Apple confirmed that this years WWDC Keynote will take place June 10th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. While the company hasn’t made any announcements to the time of the event we would expect it to start around 10 PDT, most Keynotes in the past have started at this time. While we can only […]

Software is Eating the World and Mobile Apps have the Biggest APPetite

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This is a guest post by Levi Szabo [@levisz] – Halcyon Mobile‘s co-founder. He leads, builds and writes about mobile apps. Given the abundance of games and entertainment apps, mobile apps might seem simplistic toys, but when used appropriately, they can be one of the strongest tech-tools we have today to make a difference in people’s lives. Humans and […]

Top 10 App Wednesday – Sports Apps

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On May 22, 2013

Every Wednesday we will present you with a Top 10 app list, each week will have a different theme, if you feel like there is something you would like to see a top 10 App list of just leave a comment below! This week we have compiled a list of the top 10 sports apps. […]

Flickr updated with new UI and 1 TB of free storage

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On May 21, 2013

This week has seen some big announcements from Yahoo and today is no different, Yahoo has just announced many interesting updates to their photo sharing platform Flickr.  According to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s Tumblr: Photos tell the stories — stories we’re inspired to relive, share with our friends, or capture simply to express ourselves. Collecting these […]

Yahoo acquires Tumblr for $1.1 Billion

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On May 20, 2013

Yahoo has officially announced the purchase of Tumblr, this according to official statements released from both Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Tumblr CEO and Founder David Karp. According to a press release Yahoo oddly promises not to “screw up”: “Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a […]

241 Vector Icons + 2 UI Kits

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On May 19, 2013

Designers get all the cool tools. Sure they can play around with Photoshop and make their own designs, that alone has got to be a blast, but even better, there are tons of resource kits for designers to play with and incorporate into any of their projects. This Mighty Deal from Pixlsby.me offers a perfect bundle of […]

Weekly Mobile News Roundup – 17 May 2013

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On May 17, 2013

  Once again the week is coming to an end and that means it’s time for a roundup of the past weeks news! Billions: How exactly do Apple and Google count app downloads? – Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google announced that it had hit 48B downloads of apps on the Google Play Store. During the […]

Review – Infragistics NucliOS

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If you have ever tried building your own iOS app you will undoubtedly have noticed that it is really not the easiest thing to do, however with the recent release of Infragistics NucliOS you can now create beautiful native iPad and iPhone applications. What makes NucliOS so great is the fact that it was built from […]

App Store passes 50 Billion downloads

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On May 16, 2013

Yesterday Apple let the world know that they have reached 50 billion downloads in the App Store, in recent weeks Apple.com has been counting down to the 50 billion marker, and now the website shows an iPad mini with the word “Thanks” written in FiftyThree’s popular Paper drawing app. Apple hasn’t stated who the lucky winner is but […]