The Apple Beat: Wish List for iOS 7

Great Scott!: With iOS proponent Scott Forstall gone from Apple, what direction with the valuable iOS take?By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple's yearly WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) is a month away and we're sure to see the latest features and builds of Mac OS X and iOS. Studying the current mobile landscape and features available to competing smartphone and tablet platforms, I've compiled a personal wish list of features I hope to see on iOS 7.

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SourceCode: BlackBerry gives away BBM to iPhone and Android, what are the implications?

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The bombshell of today's BlackBerry Live keynote in Orlando was the announcement that BlackBerry would be giving away its Crown Jewels. BBM or BlackBerry messenger is coming free to IOS and Android sometime Summer. BBM has long been the Ace  of the BlackBerry OS, a key differentiating feature that's kept users loyal and something that competing platforms have had no real answer for, and now they will have it. For free.

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Review: RHA MA450i noise isolating earphones with remote and mic

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The search for the perfect set of earphones has been something of a quest for me. I've been wanting a quality and multifunctional set of earphones but not wanting to have to overspend for a specific brand. With RHA's MA450i iOS compatible earphones, I found many premium features that would appeal to users expecting to pay a lot more for a set of high quality earphones.

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Video: A demo of HP's Live Photo app

This is the closest we'll get to those cool Harry Potter motion photos and portraits. HP's innovative Live Photo app makes it possible to create photos that launch personal videos. This can be used for printed cards as well as online photos. How is this possible? HP is leveraging their cloud, big data and mobile integration acquired when they bought Autonomy.  iOS users can download the app here. Can you think of other clever uses for this sort of technology?

Microsoft's take on its competition in the mobile market is hilarious, and true

This Microsoft sanctioned Nokia Lumia 920 ad pokes fun at the Samsung and Apple rivalry and is also one of the funniest things we've seen this year. There are a few stereotypes here but a lot of the arguments and barbs tossed back and forth are things many of us have heard. The only thing that would have made this awesome ad even better is if they used the cast of Party Down as the caterers.

Google Now is now available on iOS devices

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The Google invasion of iOS continues with the much anticipated Google Now search service becoming available to iPhone and iPad users. Users who update the Google Search app today will be greeted by a tutorial and an entirely new set of search tools as well as the Cards interface that pull's up sports scores, distance and GPS information, news items, nearby destinations  and other location and predictive search based info.

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