InstaSocial Lets You Post Facebook, Google+ And Twitter Updates From iOS 5 Notification Center

InstaSocial Lets You Post Facebook, Google+ And Twitter Updates From iOS 5 Notification Center

What fun would a powerful and popular smartphone be without having the ability to share information with the world through one of the popular social media networks? With Apple’s last major release of iOS, we saw the inclusion of native sharing of info to the Twitter network and it looks likely that more services will be added in future releases of iOS, but until that time comes, some additional installations through Cydia should suffice.

The InstaSocial tweak comes from the developer of InstaTwitter and InstaFacebook, two individual widgets for Notification Center that exist as single entities and allow information to be posted to the social networks. The purpose of InstaSocial seems to go a few steps further and offers users a premium social sharing experience directly from Notification Center.

Apple all set to announce iOS 6 tomorrow, but what else?

Apple all set to announce iOS 6 tomorrow, but what else?

Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference is about to start tomorrow and as usual, it's a big industry event - one, which has seen the announcements of new iPhones, new iPods and iOS versions in recent years.

Eye-witness photos of the Moscone West convention center, where the event is held, show the place is being rigged up for tomorrow's event. And the new banners confirm the highlight of the opening Keynote will be iOS 6, the next iteration of the mobile OS.

It's good to know we'll be getting another major release, but bear in mind the final version won't come out before fall. Perhaps we'll see several beta versions come out before that to give us a taste of what's coming. We have a small roundup of the stuff supposed to go in the new release, but there will surely be a lot more.

What's even more interesting is the things that were left out of the banners. Rumors suggest we might see certain developments in the MacBook series - unveiling of a refresh or even a complete discontinuation of the Pro series, making the Air the single MacBook in the lineup. Another expected debutee would be the final version of Mac OS Mountain Lion.

But whatever it is, you can be sure we'll be here covering it for you as it happens, so stay tuned. The event's keynote starts Monday, 6 p.m. London time.

Facebook and the age of accidental oversharing

Facebook and the age of accidental oversharing

Mark Zuckerberg took the wraps off Facebook's new "frictionless sharing" platform at F8. Nine months later, many are fed up with Facebook's oversharing.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Hey Silicon Valley, take a giant step back. Yep, one more step back. Now look around. That door over there? Envision a big sign on it saying: "Do Not Trespass."

Steve Jobs Biography

Steve Jobs Biography

Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption. Smart but directionless, Jobs experimented with different pursuits before starting Apple Computers with Stephen Wozniak in the Jobs' family garage. Apple's revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology.

WWDC 2012: Apple online store is down, updates likely

WWDC 2012: Apple online store is down, updates likely

Apple hits and misses: Apple is known for having many successful product launches. But it had some unsuccessful ones too.

The Apple online store is down for updates, which always indicates that new products are on the way. Well, almost always.

iOS 6 to dump support for original iPad, 3rd-generation iPod Touch?

iOS 6 to dump support for original iPad, 3rd-generation iPod Touch?

It's not unusual for Apple to drop iOS support for hardware a couple of generations old, and that is the rumored fate of the original iPad or third-generation iPod Touch.

Bing signs Encyclopaedia Britannica for search results

Bing signs Encyclopaedia Britannica for search results

Microsoft has signed a deal with Encyclopaedia Britannica to add entries from the reference work to Bing.

The tie-up means summaries of topics using data from the Encyclopaedia will be added to some search results.

The deal builds on Britannica's decision in March to stop producing a print edition.

It is also seen as a response to Google's "knowledge graph" that consolidates search information about specific subjects.

Microsoft announced the deal via a blogpost and said when information from Britannica was relevant to a search, Bing users would see a small box summarising salient facts about a topic or subject.

At the same time it would also provide links to other sources of reference information such as Wikipedia, Qwiki and Freebase.

In a test drive of Bing with added Britannica, Search Engine Land blogger Matt McGee said the encyclopaedia results were not popping up on every search.

Instead, he said, a Britannica summary box turned up only when a link to the encyclopaedia would ordinarily appear in a list of results.

By contrast, he said, Google was adding information gathered by its knowledge graph project to many more results.

Announced in mid-May, the knowledge graph is work Google has done behind-the-scenes on its vast index of web data to cluster together relevant information about a topic or subject.

The most visible result of the work is a summary box that sits alongside lists of results and gives basic information plus suggestions of places to find out more in-depth data.