Apple iOS News
iOS is a revolutionary operating system, synonymous with the iPhone, carved by Apple out of its Mac OS X operating system, which itself came from original Unix code. It now runs on both the iPhone and iPad ranges and owes some of its origins to BSD Unix with extensions from NeXTSTEP, a company ran by Apple founder Steve Jobs. iOS was a direct subset of Mac OS X, reduced in footprint in 2007 to fit the iPhone, with the addition of multiple touch, finger inputs on a touch screen. It is layered, with a core OS, services layer, media layer and touch controls. Apple does not license iOS for third-party hardware. Version 4 emerged in April 2010 when multitasking, threaded email and some business function were added. It is important Rethink Wireless covers every move Apple makes with iOS, as it is the basis of its famous App Store.
Facebook could bring Home to iOS
16 April, 2013
Social networker in talks with Apple and Microsoft about taking its software beyond Android, but will have to make compromises
Atari co-founder predicts decline of mobile games
27 March, 2013
Claims Google Glass is the future
Facebook delivers free VoIP to UK Messenger users
25 March, 2013
Only available for iOS at the moment though
Amazon Web Services goes mobile
25 March, 2013
AWS advertises for engineer for new iOS/Android initiative, further mobile elements could follow for cloud platform
Apple buys location specialist WiFiSlam
25 March, 2013
California start-up could boost iOS's positioning capabilities, supporting more accurate location indoors
Android and Chrome will not merge, says Schmidt
22 March, 2013
Google chairman denies two key reports, that the two OSs are converging and that Google Now has been barred from iOS App Store
iOS 6.1.3 kills Evasi0n jailbreak
20 March, 2013
Latest update thwarts hackers, fixes lockscreen security bug
Nike reveals chosen few for Accelerator program
19 March, 2013
10 companies announced that will help the Nike+ ecosystem to evolve
Feedly takes in over 500,000 Google Reader users
18 March, 2013
RSS reader for browsers and mobile devices gets userbase boost
Twitter moves towards mobile music
14 March, 2013
Building on acquisition of We Are Hunted music website, microblogging service reported to be boosting content activities
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