Apps

The head of the FAA touched down at CES to back up recently released drone rules and announce the official launch of the agency's drone app.

Anyone who purchased a drone after December 21st must register with the Federal Aviation Administration, and the number of Americans who have done so is now solidly into the six digits. At a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta announced that as of this morning, 181,061 people haven registered as drone owners. That's up significantly from the 45,000 registrations that the agency announced last month....

The new Siri-ready gear includes built-in wall switches you can use with or without a smartphone.

From beautiful new games to apps that helped supercharge our productivity, many apps became new favorites in 2015.

There are a number of holiday app sales now running as mobile developers slash prices in hopes of reaching potential customers who will soon be unwrapping smartphones for Christmas. But one of the better promotions, starting today, is called “App Santa” and involves a group of indie developers behind some of the most popular applications on the iOS and Mac App Stores. The group…

The new Netflix app for Windows 10 devices is more than just a pretty makeover.

Service, the LA-based customer service startup that recently closed a $3.1M seed round, just launched its iOS app.As a refresher, Service acts as an intermediary between disappointed customers and businesses. For example, instead of a customer having to fill out a generic complaint form for an airline or retailer they contact Service, who have dedicated support staff to contact the company…

A look at the best lifestyle apps ever made for the iPhone, based on our list of the 100 best iPhone apps of all time.

A look at our best utility apps to ever make their way to the iPhone, based on our list of the best 100 iPhone apps of all time.

Whether we like it or not, more and more of the world's objects are coming online. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and NFC standards are all being used make everything from your car to your smoke alarm digitally connected. The problem is, how do we control and understand what all these objects can do? A group of researchers from MIT think they have the answer: an augmented reality app that lets you see and draw connections between real-life objects. You just point your phone's camera at, say, your lamp or your radio,...

A company capitalizing on the growth of mobile messaging, and in particular the reach of Apple’s iMessage, Slash, has now raised $1.3 million for its development of a search engine that’s tucked inside of your keyboard. Launched just a couple of months ago, the Slash keyboard app lets you share rich media, including videos, GIFs, emoji, links, products, news articles, maps, music…

There's a new ad-blocker coming to the app store. Today, Mozilla is launching Focus, a new program taking advantage of iOS 9's content-blocking API. Unlike broader blockers like Crystal or Peace, Focus is designed to give the user in-depth control over what to block from a given page, with different settings to block ads, analytics, and tracking through social networks like Facebook. The app is not yet available from the app store, but is expected to arrive today at this link....

Everything is connected these days. Not only are our households filling up with an ever-increasing amount of screens, but the rest of our physical world is becoming wired as well. The coffee maker, the vacuum cleaner, and the refrigerator — it's all hi-tech nowadays. And the thermostat, washing machine, and television? All of those are now "smart" devices, brimming with Bluetooth and running software seemingly designed to piss your parents off when things don't work just right....

Germany's Axel Springer -- which owns newspapers like Bild and Die Welt -- is pursuing legal action against the developers of Blockr, an ad blocker for iOS 9, reports said on Monday.

Your queries to Google search can now use more complex phrases, superlatives, and time-specific references.

A new agreement between the two companies means Google will be able to index Facebook profiles and other pages from the social network.

In a move that may seem trivial, but could be indicative of the future, you can now buy paid-for stickers inside Facebook Messenger. Facebook itself isn’t leading offering stickers directly, but it is working closely with a third-party — Singapore startup PicoCandy — to offer a selection of new emoji and sticker packs, some of which will cost $0.99 or $1.99.

This week's list includes Vevo's redesign, an app to help you take better selfies in the dark and a GIF keyboard app.

Google will now let iOS users test a beta version of Chrome, as the company today quietly added support for the iPhone and iPad to its list of test platforms. Google's beta version of its mobile browser now comes with support for 3D Touch and a few other small tweaks, and the company will let you try it out using Apple's TestFlight developer tool. Apple acquired TestFlight, which lets app makers beta test apps without going through the App Store, through its purchase of a startup called Burstly last...

Mozilla on Thursday released a version of its popular Firefox browser for iOS, giving Apple users an additional option for browsing the Web over iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices.

If you use Firefox on a Mac or Windows you can finally get your browser of choice on iOS.

After a long-running, conspicuous absence, Firefox is now available for iOS. Mozilla announced last year that the browser would be coming to the platform, launched a public preview in September, and is now making it available to all iPhone and iPad users....

Mozilla has been testing an iOS version of its popular web browser since September, and now Firefox for iOS is available publicly to anyone in possession of an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.

Apple on Thursday issued its first ever synchronized iOS and Android app release in a remote control and setup app for its Beats Pill+, the first Bluetooth speaker to come out of Beats since the company was acquired by Apple in 2014.

Google recently released a new version of Chrome that takes advantage of new iOS 9 features.