Author: Joseph Keller

Password manager LastPass has updated its iOS app with new features and a refreshed interface for iOS 7. Field icon menus give you easier access to your passwords. Premium users get access to the Shared Family Folder, letting up to five users have acc…

Apple has disclosed some some information on the requests that it gets from the government for customer information. The company says that only a small percentage of government requests concern actual customer data, with the majority of law enforcemen…

Image storage service Everpix will be shutting down over the coming weeks. Everpix uploaded your photos and intelligently sorted them, organizing them by day and event. The team was unable to secure new funding, and was also unable to find a new home …

Twelve South has introduced a new travel case for the iPad the BookBook Travel Journal. An all-in-one leather travel case built for use with either the iPad, iPad Air or iPad mini, the BookBook also carries essential accessories like headphones, charg…

Google Maps for iOS has been updated, with faster navigation and support for more languages. In addition to faster navigation, a route and traffic overview around your destination is available right from the initial search, without the need to enter a…

Nike has announced an update their FuelBand line of activity trackers, the Nike+ FuelBand SE, with enhanced connectivity and durability. The FuelBand SE retains the form factor of the previous FuelBand, though Nike says that the new device is designed…

Velocity is an app that wants to teach you to read faster. It’s fairly simple to use. Velocity gathers material from the web, along with Instapaper and Pocket, and feeds you text one word at a time by default. The speed at which words pass in front of…

Pod Wrangler is a new podcast app from David Smith, the creator of Feed Wrangler. Designed for iOS 7, Pod Wrangler allows you to easily search for, subscribe, and listen to podcasts. You can find podcasts in a number of ways. Hit “Add” in the upper ri…

Sophia Teutschler, the developer behind Sophiestication Software, is joining Apple as part of the UIKit Frameworks team. This means that the apps that she develops, including Articles, Tipulator, and Groceries, will soon stop receiving updates. While …

Amazon Instant Video for iOS has been updated to allow users to stream content to their Apple TV through AirPlay, along with other new features and improvements. The update also lets users dig into the information surrounding their movie or TV program…

People using Google Maps for iOS should notice a new traffic feature starting today, with real-time incident reports arriving via Waze. When Waze users report road closures, accidents, construction, and other traffic events, they will appear in the Go…

Wacom has announced a new, pressure-sensitive stylus for the iPad called the Intuos Creative Stylus, paying homage to the branding of their famous tablet line. The Intuos Creative Stylus connects to your iPad 3, iPad 4, or iPad mini using Bluetooth 4….

Some details about how the ads in iTunes Radio will work appear to have emerged with several big names such as McDonald’s, Nissan, and Pepsi having reportedly signed on for the program. It seems that there will be three types of advertisements in iTun…

Reports suggest that Apple is currently in negotiations with Time Warner Cable to give subscribers access to channels through the Apple TV, with both parties getting close to a deal. It’s long been rumored that Apple was negotiating with cable provide…

Google Reader is gone now. Dead. Killed. Taken from us. If you go to the website that once housed all your feeds, all you’ll find is a grim warning to export them now, because even their memory will be purged from the universe on July 15. You’ve been …

Sprint’s merger with Japanese carrier SoftBank has been approved by Sprint’s shareholders. At a special shareholder’s meeting held today, the deal was overwhelmingly approved, with 98{813a954d5e225a1509f22204ece89c855080ce25555f20805f61bed63cbfde3b} of shareholders voting in favor to the merger. In a statement, Spr…