iPhone and iPad App News

Frieda Stanley sits in what was once her living room. Her Oklahoma City neighborhood was hit by a deadly twister in May 1999 and again on Monday.

Amazon announced today that its Kindle Fire HD tablet offerings will rocket from availability in just seven markets to 170+ countries in mid-June. The 7" and 8.9" Amazon Kindle Fire HD models have enjoyed great success in the consumer market, as Forrester predicted they would even before the first device was released in November, 2011.

Billerica, Massachusetts ? Broadcast Pix? today announced Version 2.0 of its popular iPixPanel app for Apple iPad, which can control any Broadcast Pix integrated production system to provide an intuitive wireless control surface for the operator.

Georgia Tech students Sarah Malis, 20, left, and Marcela Moreno, 20, use public WiFi at an Atlanta Starbucks in 2011.

The new Microsoft TV commercial shows a Windows 8 Asus tablet pitted against an Apple iPad in what's reminiscent of a classic Apple ad, complete with vintage white background.

Box has acquired an unreleased application called Folders, designed to give iPhone and iPad users a mobile front-end interface for the cloud storage and file management and sharing service as well as for competitors Google Drive and Dropbox.

Bay Area app developer Smule has amassed an army of mobile instruments, but really, what fun are all those music makers without a little good old-fashioned jamming? Today, the company's offering up the simply named Guitar, an app that lets you strum along to songs recorded through its equally straightforwardly named Sing.

The popular Gmail client app Mailbox started life as an iPhone and iPod touch app, but now has iPad support, too.

Mobile firm Shazam has revamped and relaunched its iPad app , with a new feature that automatically identifies TV shows, advertisements and music, rather than waiting for people to manually tag them.

Persuasion Notebook offers quick hits on the business of persuasion from The Globe and Mail's marketing and advertising reporter, Susan Krashinsky .

Google Inc.'s new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such as Spotify and Rhapsody , and a myriad of playlists curated along different genres provides a big playground for music lovers.

The truck carrying 96 gallons of lemonade rolled to a sloshing stop on North 7th Street in Brooklyn, the block that dead ends at the East River.

Yahoo is determined to be relevant again, and the company's recent Flickr photo-service and app updates, just might do the trick, according to CIO.com blogger James A. Martin.

In this photo provided by the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office, James Holmes poses for a booking photo September 20, 2012 in Centennial, Colorado.

We can't settle iPhone vs. Android or "Star Wars" vs. "Star Trek" for you. But another long-running geek debate was put to rest Tuesday night.

The company charges as much as $229 to replace an iPhone 5 with a broken screen.

It will go on sale later this year, for an undisclosed price. For the past two years, Microsoft has led the gaming industry in console sales with the Xbox 360.

Apple's forthcoming mobile operating system iOS 7 will offer easier access for those who wish to share photos and videos via Flickr and Vimeo, according to reports.

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A view of an iPhone in Washington Tuesday, May 21, 2013, showing the Twitter and Facebook apps among others.