The parents of Maya, a three-year-old girl with speech problems, thought they found a solution with a tablet app called Speak for Yourself. Now a patent infringement lawsuit could put an end to it.
Apps & Software
Next Issue Introduces Its All-You-Can-Eat Digital Magazine Smörgasbord
Next Issue Media is a startup jointly owned by some of America’s biggest publishers: Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp and TIME’s parent company, Time Inc. It’s been busy building and testing a newsstand/reader for digital …
Maybe You’d Be Better Off Without Filters, Instagram
I’m not sure if I have a favorite smartphone app, but I can’t think of one which has given me more pleasure than Instagram.
I like using it to take photos with my iPhone 4S; I like sharing them; I like seeing the photos which …
No Joke: Instagram Is Finally Available for Android
The wait is over. Instagram has finally released an app for Android, available right this second on Google Play.
It’s no secret that Android users coveted the app, which was previous only available on the iPhone. According to …
Galileo Robotic iPhone Dock Lets You Pan and Tilt Video Chats Remotely
Galileo is a Kickstarter project billed as an “iOS-controlled robotic iPhone platform with infinite spherical rotation capability.” Translation: You dock an iPhone into it, which can then be tilted and panned remotely via another …
25 Years of IBM’s OS/2: The Strange Days and Surprising Afterlife of a Legendary Operating System
Big Blue’s next-generation operating system was supposed to change everything. It didn’t. But it’s also never quite gone away
Pair: A Social App That’s Just for Couples
If you and your significant other were the last two people on Facebook, it’d probably look something like Pair.
The app, which launched this week for the iPhone, lets you communicate with one other person–ideally a spouse or …
Paper: Beautiful, Basic Drawing for the iPad
For a product that never got out of Microsoft’s labs, Courier, the two-screen concept tablet, has certainly been in the news this week.
On Tuesday, an iPad app called Taposé — which tries to realize the Courier dream which …
Google Maps Gets Drivers Out of Jams with Up-to-Date Traffic Info
Google Maps has always given great directions. Too bad it lived in a fantasy world where the roads were always clear and you could zip down the highways without another car in sight.
In the real world, I would always factor in …
Camera Awesome Adds Instagram Support, Loses One Cool Feature
Instagram is my favorite photo-sharing service. SmugMug’s excellent Camera Awesome has became my default iPhone picture-taking app. So when I learned this week that there was a new version of Camera Awesome with built-in …
Box Wants to Be the Cloud-Based File System for Mobile Business Apps
There are lots of great productivity apps for the iPhone and iPad. I use several of them every day, and prefer them, in some cases, to traditional PC-based programs.
What there isn’t is a great way to move documents and data …
