Apps and Software

Despite recent developments, the wearables space is still in its early stages in terms of mainstream adoption. The Apple Watch is expected to change that — much like how the company's iPhone jumpstarted smartphone sales back in 2007

But are people ready to ditch traditional watches and bracelets for wrist-mounted mini-computers? That's just one question that a new survey, conducted by retail research firm First Insight, tried to answer — and its findings may surprise some

"We were very surprised to find that women not only loved the Apple Watch — they were actually willing to pay nearly $50 more than market price for the Apple watch when buying it for themselves," First Insight's chief marketing officer Jim Shea told Mashable. "[It] appears Apple has an opportunity to create a smartwatch specifically designed to appeal to women, and charge even more for it." ...

This sounds like a headline from 2010, but Foursquare announced Friday that it would soon be releasing an iPad app.

Four years ago, there was speculation that the company would colonize the iPad after then-competitor Gowalla released its app on the platform. Gowalla has since been absorbed into Facebook. Meanwhile, the location-based app category that Foursquare largely pioneered has cooled off tremendously.

Foursquare reacted to the market change this year by introducing Swarm, which continues to offer check-ins, while the flagship app has ...

Apple deliberately deleted songs from customers' iPods that had originated from music services that competed with iTunes between 2007 and 2009, according to reports.

If an iTunes user synced an iPod to iTunes with outside music, an Apple dialog box would show an error message, the The Wall Street Journal reported. The message asked users to restore to factory settings, which would then erase non-iTunes songs

Perhaps more concerning was that Apple didn't tell users what was going on. An Apple representative told the court that the company didn't "need to give users too much information" and it didn't "want to confuse users." Apple contends the iPod reset was security measure and that it was fearful of hackers infiltrating iTunes through users' computers. ...