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Just seven months after introducing it, Yahoo has announced it is discontinuing Livestand, its personalized magazine aggregation Flipboard-clone iPad app. Even though the app got plenty of good reviews, averaging a 4-star rating in the app store, Yahoo…

Given the popularity the Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure console game — which uses toys with built-in RFID chips to interact with the digital characters — it’s disappointing that the series’ iOS debut is a simple gallery-style shooter, paired with the …

If your kids are going to be using your lovely Apple gear, you may as well protect it. And maybe you can pick up a new toy or two while you’re at it. We’ve picked out 8 of our favorite iOS toys for kids. Some you can control with your iPhone, and …

Offering only nine pre-set filters, no digital zoom, and two flash options (fully on or off), KLIK by Face.com is by no means a great camera. But what this social media camera app does offer is facial recognition software that learns and grows smarter …

 Memorial Day Weekend is chock full of activities. And sales! Yes, who doesn’t love an excuse for a good App Store blowout. There’s plenty to choose from so we grabbed a little here, a little there, a lot like your plate at a picnic lunch. Dig in …

Whether by fluke or design, the iPad is the perfect gaming device for our purring friends. It has a strong, sturdy screen that can sit flat on the floor, along with a capacitive multi-touch interface. Cats can paw and scratch at it without doing any da…

MS Office on an iPad might be a reality after all. This after Microsoft had gone on record refuting all such reports in an earlier leak by The Daily showing the popular software package running on the iPad. Its not only this, sources point out the MS Office suite would be made available for Android as well along with iOS. What this means is that the popular Office package can be used on an iPhone too along with the vast plethora of Android tablets and smartphones. However, all of it won’t happen overnight and the wait is going to stretch till November which is when all of it is expected to become a reality. Microsoft might have stopped the release earlier as it wanted to release the suite for Windows 8 before any other platform. Now that the touch friendly Windows 8 all set for an October release, MS Office suite’s debut on iOS and Android in November does hold water.via bgr
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My dog Roxy is a German Shepherd, which means that when she’s committed to doing something, she’s going to do it. One of those things is sneaking through the fence and going for long walks around the neighborhood. I’ve seen enough episodes of The…

Spotify has been usable on iPad for as long as the music-streaming service has been live in North America (since last summer), but it hasn’t previously been a very comfortable experience: the iPhone-native app had to be pixel-doubled to take up even a …

Your iPad is the greatest gadget on your coffee table right now, but there are some great accessories that will make it even better.

Here are two gadgets that I personally use that help me get the most out of my iPad:

1) Bose SoundLink Bluetooth Speaker: [...]