Via Scoop.it – iPhones and iThingsApple’s latest iOS update suggests the possibility for quad-core processing support on the next iPhones and iPads. (RT @_R_L_S_: ¿Cuatro núcleos para los próximos iPhone e IPad?Via www.theappleclan.com

Via Scoop.it – iPhones and iThingsHaving announced its highest-ever first half operating profit yesterday, British broadcaster BSkyB has issued an update to its Sky Go application for iOS devices. Version 2.0.Via thetagtech.com

Reblogged from GigaOM: RunKeeper announced nine new partner software titles on Monday, bringing the total number of compatible apps to 45. The RunKeeper app, which started as a simple method to monitor exercise with a phone’s GPS devices, has morphed into a full-blown health-tracking platform with its HealthGraph initiative allowing apps to interface with RunKeeper’s logging and [...]

Reblogged from GigaOM: The Pew Internet and American Life Project shed light on one of the biggest challenges for retailers: more than half of U.S. adult cell phone owners used their mobile phone during the recent holiday season to get in-store help for their purchases. The figure highlights the rise of what my colleague Om [...]

Reblogged from GigaOM: Planning to make a joke on Twitter about bombing something? You might want to reconsider: according to a report from Britain, two British tourists were detained and then denied entry into the U.S. recently after they joked about destroying America and digging up Marilyn Monroe. The fact that the Department of Homeland [...]

Reblogged from GigaOM: UPDATED: Square, the mobile payment acceptance tool, has gotten a big endorsement from the President of the United States. The Obama re-election campaign said today it is equipping staff, field organizers and volunteers with Square hardware to allow them to process campaign donations from their mobile phone. The news, announced in Politico, marks the [...]

Reblogged from GigaOM: You might not have heard about Mobify, but it’s helped 20,000 customers optimize their websites for mobile, and clients include Starbucks (s sbux), Bonobos, Threadless and many others. The company said it had 167 million unique visitors  visit Mobify-powered mobile websites last year, about 20 percent of all smartphone users. That’s interesting [...]

Reblogged from GigaOM: Codecademy, the startup that makes an interactive and social web application aimed at teaching people how to write computer code, has gone the platform route. On Monday, the company debuted Course Creator, a platform that allows anyone to make educational courses to teach programming techniques. Up until now, Codecademy, which launched in [...]

Reblogged from GigaOM: People protesting SOPA The web community and political activists fighting for less draconian copyright laws have seized the opportunity afforded to them by the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act in the U.S. Congress to go after a bigger topic, the exportation of SOPA-style laws abroad. [...]