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Google Blows Up ICANN Applications

Some of the world’s largest entities applied for a handful of new ICANN top-levels. Google submitted more than 100.

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Apple’s Passbook Could Save You A Trip To The DMV, Forever

Apple’s new iOS 6 app Passbook is more than a digital wallet. It’s going to revolutionize digital identification.

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Developers Dish On How iOS 6 Will Change Your Favorite Apps

We talked to iOS developers a few hours after they got the chance to download and play around with iOS 6 to get them to dish about what changes consumers can expect to see to their favorite apps.

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Art Lab: MoMA’s Second Mobile App Encourages Learning Through Creation

After the introduction of its first iPhone app back in 2010, New York’s Museum of Modern Art has unveiled a new kind of interactive art app for the iPad called Art Lab.

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Is That Google Earth, Or The New Sim City?

Google unveiled a graphically intense vision for Google Earth, including footage that shows comprehensively-rendered city skylines complete with buildings and foliage.

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Samsung’s Other Voice Recognition Technology Shouldn’t Have IBM In A Cold Sweat

Not much attention has been paid to the Galaxy S III’s other voice recognition technology, a surprisingly advanced system that can wake the phone up from sleep mode.

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Half Of Pregnancies Are Unplanned. Fortunately, MyPill Is The App For That

Some of the most common methods of contraception are also the most likely to fail, according to new research at Washington University — and those failures are due to user error rather than anything inherently ineffective about hormonal birth control pills or the contraceptive patch. But without resorting to other birth control methods, is there any way mobile developers can increase the effectiveness of common contraceptives?

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S Voice Released, Promptly Hacked To Run On Other Android Devices

Hackers wasted no time in releasing S Voice for other current-generation Android phones, casting a shadow on Samsung’s day in the sun while potentially opening up the functionality to a much wider range of users.

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Like Google Years Ago, Yahoo! Releases Browser

The web may be littered with the husks of failed browsers, but struggling search outfit Yahoo! is tossing its hat into the ring nonetheless, with a “search browser” seemingly aimed mainly at mobile platforms, but also available as a plugin for popular desktop browsers.

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Android, iOS Run 82 Percent Of Smartphones. What About The Other 18 Percent?

The mobile operating system scene is now dominated by Apple and Google, according to research firm IDC, with the two now accounting for a combined 82 percent of the market. The other 18 percent is a surprising mixture of has-beens, potential rivals, and unknowns.

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