My son was born about a month before the debut of the iPad, and has quite literally grown up alongside touchscreen devices. As a parent and longtime app reviewer, I can tell you with conviction that most educational apps for the iPad stink.

That's why Appolicious created

While Apple's eventual entry into the television set market seems inevitable, there is no telling when a fully-operational and iOS-enabled boob-tube will enter our living rooms.

Apple suppliers are telling the Wall Street Journal that the company is playing around with designs for a large screen HDTV set,...

Like a burger and fries or apple pie à la mode, Foodspotting and GrubHub are two mobile apps that go really well together.

Foodspotting, which has more than three million downloads across multiple platforms including iOS and Android applications, is a visual guide for unique food...

Showyou, already our favorite iOS application for video discovery, today debuts a fully revamped iPhone app that separates the service from the pack of worthy competitors.

If you haven't used Showyou before, the app in many (but not all) ways is like a Flipboard for videos. Showyou...

When Apple debuted its App Store four years ago, even the most bullish analysts and enthusiastic fanboys could not have fathomed how iOS apps would so quickly change our lives.

Before the App Store, only the most patient and dedicated users would invest the 30 clicks or so it took...

When New York Yankees slugger Mark Teixeira made his Major League debut a little less than a decade ago, the sports media landscape was dramatically different from it is today.

Social networks like Facebook and Twitter were not yet invented. By the time you obtained a score on your cell...

Spotify just released a major update for its iPhone and iPad applications that features a fully-operational radio station. Upon first impression, this update rocks!

While I've tested and flirted with countless music discovery apps and services, for at least the last four years Pandora is the...

While it is unclear to what degree Waze's turn-by-turn navigation technology will be incorporated into the iOS 6 Maps app, the company today debuts a new feature that should appeal to many of us this summer -- a cheap gas locator.

As part of today's 3.2 update, which hits

Disney this week unveiled three new video streaming apps for iOS devices. While WATCH Disney Channel, WATCH Disney XD and WATCH Disney Junior are restricted to Comcast cable subscribers who have those channels in their programming package, the deal between the two companies is an appetizer for how major entertainment...

The biggest takeaway of the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference is that Siri is the new voice of Apple.

In the coming months, Siri will make her way to iPads as well as tag-team with existing apps like OpenTable and Rotten Tomatoes to do everything...

While Android is a growing and compelling platform for mobile applications, developers still clearly prefer making iOS apps, according to brand new data published by Flurry Analytics.

The fact that nearly seven out of 10 new applications are developed for iOS devices is particularly relevant given that both...

A fully operational Apple TV that showcases third-party applications is coming, with details likely to be revealed as soon as next week during the annual Worldwide Developers Conference.

Yet while the economic and pop-cultural impact of an Apple TV app ecosystem has the potential to exceed (if not...

When Johnny Carson stepped down from hosting The Tonight Show 20 years ago this week, Apple was pushing a rudimentary tablet computer called the Messagepad, and analog televisions were the primary delivery system for electronic media, news and entertainment.

Back then, most of us lived on a handful...

As the four major broadcast television networks this week showcase upcoming programming lineups in their annual upfront pitches to advertisers, there continues to be a lot of handwringing over how DVRs and online video consumption are making mainstream entertainment and the old fashioned notion of "appointment viewing" obsolete.

As David...

As some of the smartest people in technology continue to debate whether we are living in an app-driven bubble, it might be tempting for somebody like GrubHub co-founder Mike Evans to oversell the impact mobile media has on his company.

Founded in 2004, Chicago-based GrubHub is the leader...

When pre-revenue startups with less than 15 employees, such as Instagram, have 10-figure exits in less than two years, it's reasonable to ponder how today's app economy compares to the dot-comedy of the late '90s.

One of the first people I recently asked was Matt Murphy,...

Wall Street analysts who foolishly downgraded Apple before another monstrous earnings report last week are not the only ones who should eat a little crow.

It may seem surreal to think about now, but it wasn't too long ago when some of the smartest tech industry commentators and...

With any emerging medium, the real fun begins when companies that are less than two years old and have little-to-no revenue exit at 10-figure valuations.

So, rather than debate whether or not Instagram sold out its users by being absorbed by Facebook, let's look ahead and...

With Groupon in SEC purgatory, it may come time sooner rather than later to anoint a new poster child for Chicago's growing but still somewhat fledgling tech community.

Who's the best candidate? You might find the answer by speaking into your iPhone.

Dag Kittlaus, who founded Siri Inc....

The idea of splitting the meal bill at a restaurant by handing a server two or multiple credit cards could be a thing of a past. That is, if the developers of the iconic Bump app have anything to do with it.

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