Facebook To Launch iPad App At Apple Event

Facebook is planning to launch its iPad app and a new iPhone app at an October 4th Apple event and Facebook engineer Jeff Verkoeyen has left the company for Google after working 80 hour weeks on the Facebook iPad app which has been feature complete. The relationship between the two tech giants is warming up, thanks to the common goal of beating Google. Facebook and Apple seems to have realized that they both need to work together to beat Google and he former doesn’t have a mobile platform while the latter doesn’t have a social platform. Facebook has also been working on a project called Project Spartan for a long time and Facebook tried to get around Apple’s in-app purchase policy by developing a HTML5 based app store that can be accessed via iOS Safari browser……………

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WordPress Releases 2.9 Update For iOS

WordPress iOS app received an update with adding a feature-rich content editor and a full screen editing mode. Users can now follow their favorite blogs from within the universal application and it’s easier than ever before to upload images from within the app. WordPress 2.9 for iOS is now available for download on iTunes App Store. WordPress 2.9 has a refreshed text editor, which is not the same visual editor you’d get on a self-hosted WordPress blog, still forces you to write with visible HTML, but it’s got an additional keyboard row both on the iPhone and iPad with buttons for bold and italic text, adding links, quotes and strikethroughs, bulleted lists, and many more……………

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Amazon Kindle Books Now Available At Local Libraries

Amazon lets you check out Kindle books from library websites, asks you to shush yourself at home and you can download copies to your Kindle or Kindle app-enable device via WiFi or USB. As e-books have taken off with readers, libraries have been building their e-book collections to meet demand and successfully persuading many publishers to sell their titles to libraries in e-book format……………..

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Desk Pets TankBot With Android And iOS Support

Exhibited during Toy Fair 2011 in New York, Desk Pets’ TankBot has joined the likes of the HELO TC, Sphere and AR Drone in the growing ranks of smartphone-controlled gizmos and the US$25 bot has individually powered tiny tank-tracks and infrared sensors for free-roaming and maze solving modes. Remote control works using a dongle that plugs into the smartphone’s headphone jack along with the free iOS 4.2 and Android compatible app and the ange is quite limited though, offering up to 3m (9.8ft) and the remote must be pointed toward the front black screen of the Tankbot to work properly. A single 40-minute charge allows the toy to operate for 15 minutes and it has headlights for eyes that flash when the toy is idle………………

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Adobe To Release Flash Player 11 And Air 3

Adobe Systems has launched Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3, enabling 3D games over the Internet to nearly all PCs and many other devices. Adobe is finally enabling 3D games inside its Flash media player and its Adobe Air software coming in October. The new features in Flash and Air enable a wide variety of special effects and now developers will be able to animate millions of objects in a 3D scene with smooth 60 frames per second animations………………..

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Kazaa Music Streaming App For iOS

Kazaa the former peer-to-peer file sharing app has released a legit music streaming app for iOS and this app compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, which itself is completely free and includes a seven-day trial of the Kazaa music service. Kazaa has offered several legal music service models, the latest of which providing unlimited, on-demand music streaming for $10 per month and the iOS app allows subscribers to search and listen on demand, download any song, album or playlist, create, sync and access playlists anywhere, listen to Kazaa Radio, and access higher audio quality options………………

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Mophie Juice Pack Universal Powerstation For iOS Devices

The Powerstation was engineered from the ground up to provide super high output charging. With charging output of up to 2.1 amps the powerstation can handle all of your USB devices, including the iPad. With innovative ‘high-output’ technology, the mophie Juice Pack Powerstation will give you ultra-fast chargingThis fast charging system not only gets you powered up quickly, it was designed to charge virtually any USB device in the world–including the iPad. By utilizing an advanced battery cell, the 3600mAh Powerstation is capable of switching between a 500mAh charge (typical), a 1A charge (impressive), and 2.1A (unheard of).

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