Back at the Consumer Electronics Show in early January of this year, Sony revealed its latest “home appliance” called the “dash.” The dash is designed to be a family orientated device that gives people the convenience to schedule events, check the weather, read the news, and more. More »

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Apple is putting its foot down when it comes to “overtly sexual content.” Wait, so what does that actually mean? Well, according to developer Jon Atherton, developer of the Wobble iPhone app, it means a lot more than it seems. More »

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Telecommunication companies from around the world are teaming up to create a giant app store that will most likely rival the Apple app store. For now, they’re calling it the Wholesale Applications Community. More »

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Although not the best of all ads, VIZIO’s Super Bowl ad for its new internet enabled TV line was indeed notable. Featuring American pop star Beyonce, the ad also included the Twitter bird and such memes as David after the Dentist. More »

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“In my 28 years of attending the CES and participating in it and being a part of it and running it for most of that time, I can honestly say there will be more innovation at this show than any one in history,” Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, said. More »

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From Swandiary: In a somewhat random move, Twilight’s Peter Facinelli (Carlisle Cullen) recently unveiled to the world Vampire Transformer, a new iPhone app. The Vampire Transformer app allows swans of the iPhone using sort to take any picture and blend it with a vampire of your choice. An iPhone vampire makeover of your photos if you will. I only say this is a somewhat random move on his part because although it’s always nice to cash in on the vampire franchise you’re involved in, I feel Peter is truly being sincere when he says it’s “for the fans.” More »

If you’re like me, you go through desktop wallpaper like underwear. And yes, I do change my underwear often. For people that change their wallpaper often, there’s the Wallpaper Juggler app. Not only does it rotate your current wallpaper images, you can actually search for new ones if you get tired of what you have. More »

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We’ve covered both the top gadgets of the year and ones that didn’t quite make the list. But what about the top blog posts of the year? Based on search engine results, the following are the Top 10 ZiggyTek stories of 2009. More »

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Having recently turned 25, I’m naturally concerned and slightly obsessed with the pursuit to stay my young self. Facebook application Mirror Me enables Facebook users to submit photos and fill out a quick lifestyle questionnaire that will help generate an image of what Mirror Me thinks you’ll look like in 10 years. If you think this is frightening, just wait — it really is. More »

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I’ve always been a proponent of the latest technology and am usually one of the first to buy a gadget when it’s first released. It’s just how I am and believe that some gadgets make things easier for us. In the past few years, smartphones have been that gadget. While many are still getting used to using a smartphone (my parents and cousins still don’t know how to use one), they’re extremely useful once you get the hang of it.

Take for example the new influx of apps across every smartphone operating system. Apps are designed to make the user experience easier and lately it seems like it’s made it so easy, using the version on my computer’s browser has become confusing.

The one app I’m going to use as an example is the new Facebook app for the iPhone, Android and other platforms (it sucks on WebOS but that’s another story). The app is extremely simple to use and gets you the info you want right away, without multiple clicks. It’s become so easy to use, I’ve preferred the Facebook app on my iPhone over the website on my browser. Here’s why. More »

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Thanksgiving is right around the corner and while we’re all preparing to stuff ourselves on the big day, for those of us who might not be able to cook or make food, we have 10 iPhone Apps that can help take care of that and a little bit more. More »

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“There’s an app for that”, is Apple’s tagline for their famous app store, which holds over 100,000 third party applications available for download. So, because the app store’s birthday is only a few months away, and iPhone apps are on the cusp of popularity, we’ve assembled 5 iPhone apps that are easy to use, interesting, can carry a heavy workload, and are just plain handy: More »

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The App Store is continuing to break milestones. Today Apple announced that the Apple App Store has hit the 2 billion mark. That’s 2 billion apps downloaded by users. Apple hit 1 billion back in April and has not hit 2 billion within 5 months. Those are some staggering numbers. Here are some of the other numbers from Apple: More »

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iPhone apps have become one of the driving forces behind the success of the iPhone here in the U.S. but also globally. Japan, a country usually seen ahead in advances in technology, has embraced the iPhone better than most thought. What’s the reason behind it? It may be the slew of applications available to do many different tasks. Serkan Toto of TechCrunch put together a list of his 32 best iPhone apps, all created by developers in Japan. Here are the top 5 on his list. More »

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If you’ve ever wondered how much all the apps in Apple’s App Store, you won’t have to wait for a rainy day to figure it out, Forbes has already calculated it for us. Here’s what the top ten list looks like with the most money generated and the publishers with the most apps: (List after the break) More »

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