Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram

Scanner Pro by Readdle , one of the most popular and functional scanner-replacement applications for iOS, has received a major update. The update adds on all new iPad version that is super intuitive, easy to learn, and very functional. Scanner Pro for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch uses your device’s camera to essentially scan any document onto your iPad.

Popular jailbreak tweak and App Store developer Adam Bell has released a new and unique tweak for jailbroken iPhones. It’s called Stride and it replaces your iPhone or iPod touch’s slide to unlock and passcode input screen with a fully customizable gesture unlock system. As you can see in the promotional video above, you are not limited by a 9-point field like Android phones or by having to draw a specified pattern on top of an image.

U.K.-based Android and iOS app developer Gareth Wright recently discovered a security hole in Facebook’s native mobile apps that can be used to steal a user’s personal information. Facebook’s Android and iOS apps do not encrypt login credentials, instead storing them in plain text files and allowing the information to be easily accessed and transferred over a USB connection, or more likely, through a malicious app

Just shy of a month after its release, Lukas Mathis provides well-reasoned criticism regarding the learning curve for iPhoto for iOS . It's new territory for Apple, as he points out, but it might be pushing the boundaries a little too hard.

Lookout Mobile Security on Tuesday published a report stating that a known malicious Android program has been updated with the ability to harm a device without depending on a user’s interaction. The new version of the “Legacy Native” (LeNa) app utilizes an exploit called

Retina Display iPads are fully supported The iPad App Store is packed with many Twitter clients, but most of these clients offer a similar experience. A user interface with a timeline, a button to open up a tweet sheet, and several more advanced features like direct messaging, tweet quoting, translating and more.

Earlier this month, Apple crossed a record 25 billion downloads from more than 550,000 available apps , while Google in December surpassed 10 billion downloads from 400,000 available apps . Analytics firm Flurry on Friday announced the results of a new study that examined various mobile app markets, and interestingly enough, the study found that apps in Amazon’s competing Android Appstore earns three times more revenue than those within Google’s own marketplace. Apple’s App Store took in the most revenue, with the Amazon Appstore earning 89% of the revenue Apple did and Google’s Play marketplace making just 23%

The second developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion, which was seeded to developers on Saturday, introduces support for location-based reminders in the Reminders app.

Last year, iTether hit the App Store and was promptly pulled when Apple discovered it let customers share their phone's mobile broadband connection without paying for a carrier tethering plan. After a few months of inactivity, Tether is now back as an HTML5 app. The new HTML5 version of Tether creates a wireless connection using an ad-hoc network