Apple revealed the next OS X operating system which is scheduled for a launch later this year - OS X Mavericks. The new operating system brings a lot of new features on the table, apart from simplifying the naming structure by moving away from cats. The company teased the new name as "OS X Snow Lion", which received its share of laughter and cheers from the audience, before officially announcing the real name - Mavericks.

If, some months from now, you see people around you making funny faces at their mobile computing devices, don’t be taken aback. It may soon become a socially acceptable norm to have people winking or showing their tongues to their phones if Google and other manufacturers have their way.

There are so many mobility management solutions available in the market today, to zero down which suits you the best becomes a difficult proposition. But there don’t seem to be many solutions catering to the needs of SMB’s, which largely depend on personal devices for business use.

Apple has just announced the biggest upgrade to its mobile operating system - iOS - tonight at the opening keynote of the 13th Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The new upgrade called iOS 7 will begin rolling out to users by the end of this year on all supported iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPad and the iPod Touch. The new mobile operating system from Apple has changed significantly for the first time ever since the iPhone was announced back in 2007.

After bringing its Android app store to more than 200 countries and recently launching its marketplace in India, Amazon is taking another step in Asia by launching its Kindle products in China. The company today launched its Kindle e-reader and the Kindle Fire HD in China. Both the products now appear on Amazon's China site.

Microsoft has launched its Bing Translator app for Windows including Windows 8 and RT, which means it, has now introduced almost all of the features of its mobile translator app for Windows Phone, including camera-based translations, to the desktop.

Early adopters of Samsung's newly launched flagship device - Galaxy S4 - were really annoyed after discovering that their smartphone only left them with a small amount of memory for actual usage. When you'd purchase a smartphone with a 16GB advertised memory, you expect to get at least 12-14GB for yourself, instead Galaxy S4 gives users only 9.15GB. But Samsung is looking to fix it with a software update that just started rolling out.

There has been a marked shift in the type of cell phone owned by Americans in the last two years. Over 50 per cent of cell phone owners in the USA were now acknowledged holders of smartphones, the first time ever that field research had thrown up such a figure since it had started measuring this geographical market, announced well-known research agency Pew Internet, a project of Pew Research Center.

A new report by Gartner has said AirWatch, Citrix, Fiberlink, Good Technology, MobileIron and SAP were the topmost vendors in the mobile device management market.

With development platforms like Microsoft’s Windows Azure increasing in popularity, and more and more mobile app testing platforms, too, crowding the market, Google Inc. too, wants some part of the action. In order to encourage more developers to use its App Engine cloud service, it has now launched the Mobile Backend Starter.