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The World Wide Web Consortium is investigating integrating speech capabilities into the Web standard.

This app, which uses the gyroscope in the iPhone 4 to help create a panoramic-style view, has a few shortcomings. But it's a fun app to use and a great way to show off to friends.

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A new app, MarkdownMail, lets you send HTML-formatted e-mail from your iOS device, via the Markdown formatting language.

Nike has one-upped its own app built into iOS by releasing Nike+ GPS, a new App Store app designed for runners. The decision to release a separate app is a little confusing, but it offers a couple unique features such as GPS tracking and Challenge Me.

Apple's new iTunes-based social network, Ping, registered more than one million members within 48 hours of its launch.

You can't go wrong with FontXChange 2.5. Its support for .dfont, Multiple Master, OpenType, Mac and Windows PostScript and TrueType, and the new Web Open Font Format is a huge help for Web and print designers and publishers.

Overwhelmed by information? Using Yahoo’s Pipes you can create your own custom RSS feeds that filter information from other RSS feeds, Web sites, and more. Glenn Fleishman shows you how.

We take a second look at Google's free app that puts the world at your fingertips and find that many complaints remain, even after an update to optimize Google Earth for the iPad. This iOS version of the software really pales in comparison to the desktop version, with bizarre omissions of seemingly perfect-for-mobile features.

Judging from the impressive new crop of iPods announced last week along with an update to iTunes, PCWorld's Ian Paul thinks Apple’s dominance of the digital music world seems solid -- at least for now.

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd has been appointed co-president of Oracle, the software company announced Monday.

Intuit on Tuesday will unveil the latest version of its accounting and small business management application. The new version, available later this month, is highlighted by the arrival of multi-user functionality.

It can take lots of time, patience and determination in order to produce a listenable song with this app, which transmogrifies your voice into the sound of various musical instruments. But Voice Band definitely puts a unique spin on mobile music creation.

F10 Launch Studio offers you quick, easy, and intelligent access to all the applications on your Mac, making it possible to launch your favorite apps with no more than a few keystrokes. However, functionality similar to some of the features F10 Launch Studio offers is already provided by Mac OS X, so you should give those tools a shot before you plunk down the cash.

Motorola has once again hit out at Apple with another ad, this time highlighting the lack of Adobe Flash on the iPhone compared to the Droid 2.

Tony Bradley sees the iPad holding a potential advantage over Samsung's Galaxy Tab. The latter will likely have contracts with carriers that won't compare to the iPad's no-commitment contract for 3G service.

iOS 4.1 is supposed to arrive this week, followed by the 4.2 update in November. If you've got questions about Apple's batch of iOS updates, we'll supply the answers.

Members of The iPad Orchestra recently performed 'Sweet Dream' by Ilya Plavunov on four iPads, much to the approval of Apple.

This app turns your iPad into a virtual whiteboard and lets iPhone users with a free companion app wirelessly contribute notes to your brainstorming session. It's a promising idea, but one that ultimately has too many limitations to be the creative collaborative tool iBrainstorm's developer envisions.

A survey conducted by Harris Interactive in the United States and Opinion Matters in the United Kingdom on behalf of Xobni found that the 9-5 workday is a myth, and that there is no such thing as a real day off any more.