iPhone and iPad App News

Apple is doling out more of its cash to shareholders and preparing to split its stock for the first time in nine years in an attempt to win back investors fretting about the iPhone maker's slowing sales growth and pace of innovation.

Apple Inc.'s first split in nine years removes an obstacle to its inclusion in the Dow Jones Industrial Average: its $525 stock price.

A year ago, Facebook's first-quarter earnings report proved to Wall Street that the company had managed the transition of its users from desktop software to mobile devices.

The handheld vision Steve Jobs sold to AT&T in 2007 has come to pass. The problem for Apple investors is that the booming market the company created with the iPhone seven years ago - and then Your Take contributions have not been reviewed for accuracy by USA TODAY.

Viber , the leading mobile communications platform offering free messaging and HD-quality phone calls, announced today the release of its redesigned iPhone app that is designed for iOS 7, bringing multiple enhancements to iPhone users.

The Selfie may have been Oxford Dictionary's 2013 "Word of the Year" because of its increased usage, but they can land you in a whole lot of trouble if you're not careful.

Amazon's upcoming smartphone will have a unique, gesture-based interaction method that involves tilting the phone to access new information and control on-screen elements, including flipping between pages, according to a new BGR report .

In 1980, a group of computer-science students at the University of California started working together on a game called Rogue .

Telenav's Scout iOS navigation app just got some cool new features, including the ability to search while navigating.

Samsung on Tuesday revealed that it has reduced the amount of damages it wants for Apple's accused infringement of two patents because it dropped the iPad from the list of infringing devices.

The good news: Office and Exchange now works credibly on the iPad. The bad news: Microsoft is being as proprietary as Apple For years, the world has been begging Microsoft to release its Office suite for the iPad.

Before there were apps and iPads, there was Game Boy. Twenty five years ago today, Nintendo released its first Game Boy in Japan.

Two men were in custody for the March 10 kidnapping and robbery of a woman outside a Target store in East San Jose who answered a listing on Craigslist to buy iPhones from them, San Jose police said Monday.

Apple is offering free recycling of all its used products and vowing to power all of its stores, offices and data centers with renewable energy to reduce the pollution caused by its devices and online services.

Google Glass-wearing, iPhone-toting techies who can't be bothered to look at their smartphones for texts can instead peer into a different screen out of the corner of their eye.

If you think "Bluetooth headset" when someone says "smartphone accessory," you probably aren't aware of all the awesome add-ons available for your favorite mobile device.

Motorists are being warned it is expected to be a busy day on the region's roads today as families head back home from their Easter getaways.

Tired of the same restaurants and clubs? Not sure if friends would want to venture to a new cafe or bar? New apps show where people want to go, rather than where they have been.

From the disappearances of aviator Amelia Earhart to labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa, there's just something about a good mystery that Americans find too tantalizing to resist.

As Amazon Fire TV bursts onto the market to compete with streamers like the Roku 3 and Apple TV , you may be wondering what these set-top boxes offer over cheaper streaming sticks, specifically Google's Chromecast and Roku's Streaming Stick .