iPhone and iPad App News

Restaurants and shop owners fed up with antiquated cash registers and expensive credit card terminals are switching to cheaper devices that plug into smartphones and tablets.

Microsoft released its first iOS version of Office on Friday . Officially dubbed Microsoft Office Mobile for Office 365 subscribers, the app is designed only for the iPhone , available only in the U.S., requires an Office 365 subscription and has a very minimal feature set.

Apps startup FiftyThree , which makes iPad notebook app Paper , has raised $15m in a Series A funding round.

A woman has been sentenced to eight days in jail for stealing a former "American Idol" contestant's iPhone while the singer was performing at a California elementary school.

Analysts say tight-lipped Facebook's announcement on Thursday will likely involve mobile and video, and it needs to be a blockbuster Speculation abounds that Facebook Thursday will unveil tools to enable its popular Instagram app to take and share short videos.

Jive Software is making a mobile push with new and enhanced mobile applications that have an emphasis on helping users of the enterprise social networking suite create, not just view, content from their tablets and smartphones.

With flipgorilla, a platform based on HTML5 and CSS3 for publishing PDF documents as flip books on all modern browsers and devices has been developed for the first time.

The getthebest365 team has released unlock-jailbreak tool v5.0. This version of unlock-jailbreak tool can untethered jailbreak and Unlock iPhone 4S/4/3GS iOS 6.1.4/6.1.3 iPad and iPod Touch released today by Apple.

The application icons of Facebook, Twitter and Google are displayed on an iPhone next to an earphone set in this illustration photo taken in Berlin, June 17, 2013.

New apps, such as Vinny, are available which can help protect consumers who are looking for a fair deal when shopping for used cars.

A new survey found that several technology and entertainment companies were among the brands most popular among the LGBT community.

MPme's free, popular mobile music app became available today for the Android operating system.

Being the parent of a toddler, who just loves to get his grubby little paws on my iPad, Guided Access has become one of my best friends.

Between 9,000 and 10,000 accounts or devices were specified in the requests between Dec. 1 and May 31, Apple Inc., the Cupertino, California-based company said in a statement on its Website.

Apple has yet to release iOS 7 for the iPad and aside from a small picture on the iOS 7 site , there has been little indication of what the operating system will look like on the larger screen of the tablet.

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I've been using a pre-release version of iOS 7, Apple's upcoming update to the iPhone operating system, for a few days now.

Over the past few years, Microsoft has been inching closer to making Office available on any device.

A brief look at ten of the best distraction-free programs for writers and non-writers alike to help with productive writing.

While traveling, parents can use tracking apps to locate their brood on a map, receive alerts if children venture beyond a certain area and turn smartphones into walkie-talkies.