Top AppAdvice News And Apps Of The Past Week

We heard a little bit more about the iPhone 5 and iOS 5. Unfortunately, most of those rumors turned out to be untrue. Meanwhile, Facebook released a new app for the iPhone in some of the news making headlines in the week that was. Industry News De-Unconfirmed: Apple Fall Event NOT To Take Place Early September An Apple event is coming soon; we just don’t know when. Conflicting reports say it is coming in early September, or maybe not. This May Be Your Next iPhone — Design Concept Roundup What to know what the iPhone 5 will look like? Click here. Amazon Goes The WebApp Way — Launches iOS-Friendly Web-Based Kindle Cloud Reader Still king of the hill when it comes to e-books despite the competition, Amazon and its Kindle brand are making some new moves on iOS with a brand new, amazing Web app discovered by TechCrunch this morning. Branded Cloud Reader, Amazon's new Web-based Kindle reader is one of the most accomplished HTML5 Web apps you've probably ever seen. As its name indicates, it's an e-book reader that lives in the cloud, or more precisely, in your browser. It's designed to work with any browser (besides the iPhone, for now), but the app seems to be particularly at home on the iPad, especially once you add it to your home screen and get rid of the URL bar. MobileMe Users To Get Additional iCloud Storage Automatically - For A Price Following the unveiling of Apple's iCloud migration tool for developers, more details have emerged concerning what will be happening to MobileMe users and their subscriptions once they make the move. As discovered by MacRumors, MobileMe subscribers moving to iCloud will be automatically signed up for the additional 20GB storage plan, that Apple offers to all iCloud customers for $40 a year. More precisely, migrating users will be given the same amount of storage they had paid for in MobileMe, without any additional charges until June 30, 2012. iOS 5 Gets Friendly With Netflix And Hulu You know iOS 5 is getting close to its public release when two of the most popular iDevice apps are now iOS 5 compatible. This week, Netflix and Hulu offered app updates that did just that. Apple's Plans For Projector Integration Are Groundbreaking, Exciting, Possibly Ready To Go Today, Patently Apple revealed a particularly ambitious set of plans assembled by the researchers and engineers in Cupertino, CA. In fact, the implications of this patent application are far-reaching, complex, and quite specifically detailed, leading the analysts at the noted blog to conclude Apple is determined to move forward with its innovation in the near future. And what's that innovation? In a word, projectors! iPhone App News Facebook Takes On The App Store With Standalone Messenger App Facebook, the biggest online social network, is taking on the Whatsapp's and iMessages of the App Store world, with a standalone messaging app of its own. Called Facebook Messenger, and launched a few minutes ago, it brings Facebook chat, and recently improved messaging features as a standalone app to your iPhone. Cablevision Announces Huge Updates To Its Optimum Apps Optimum today released a significant update to its popular iPhone/iPod touch app. For the first time, Cablevision customers can watch and control TV content directly from their iDevice, in news first reported by 9 To 5 Mac. Love Spotify? Here Is How To Make It Even Better Spotify is making quite an impression in the U.S. Now, we offer these steps to making your streaming music service even better. Cover Orange Breaks The Five Million Downloads Barrier While Holding A Perfect Rating A team effort by FDG Entertainment and the original game's developer, "Johnny-K," the iOS version of Cover Orange hit the App Store December 2010. This month, the game reached a milestone and we'd like to share some details about it with you, our wonderful readers and avid gamers. iPad App News We Asked, Vudu Listened, As Movie Streaming Service Comes To iPad Vudu, the movie and television streaming service owned by Wal-Mart, has arrived for the iPad in a move that could significantly change the movie-viewing landscape on iDevices. It was just last month when AppAdvice suggested a Vudu iPad app would be a terrific addition to the App Store. Well, Vudu is now available, but not as an app. Rather, it is available through Mobile Safari at Vudu.com.

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