If you somehow managed to miss the news, Google announced their Google Drive cloud storage service today. And while owners of Windows/Mac computers and Android devices were rewarded with a fancy new app, iOS users were simply left with a “coming soon” tag slapped across their platform of choice. Rumors from earlier in the day put an iOS release for Google Drive at a couple weeks out. However, Google Senior Vice President of Chrome and Apps, Sundar Pichai,...

I’ll be honest with you all. I’m not a designer. While I’d like to think I have a somewhat decent eye for pretty pixels, others have said otherwise. Still, I love looking at well designed software and apps. And what better place to do that than Dribbble, a thriving community of UI/UX designers and pump out a ton of awesome looking concepts each and every day. Naturally, browsing this sea of wonderful content needs an app equally as impressive. Meet...

Amazon is graduating to the leagues of the big boys of Google, Apple, RIM and more with the announcement of their new in-app purchasing mechanism for their Amazon Appstore. Like the other aforementioned competing platforms and stores, Amazon’s new system will allow developers embracing their own store to offer additional content and downloads within apps for a set fee. In the press release, Amazon promises their 1-click payment solutions are just as secure and quick...

RIM’s PR team has been taking a massive hit the last few days after it was revealed that they would kill the ability for consumers to side-load apps onto their BlackBerry PlayBooks in BB OS 10, the next generation OS RIM is feverishly working on. The news was understandably taken pretty negatively. While piracy is easily done via side-loaded apps, there are also a lot of legitimate apps and uses for side-loading. At the time, RIM said that while consumers would no...

The ever popular Instagram for iOS has apparently been well received on its newly supported platform, Android, as TNW is reporting a new milestone has been reached — 5 million! That’s a great sign for Instagram. After numerous hiccups and bugs cropped up over the first few days on the market (and continue to exist), it’s good to see that the bad PR surrounding any lingering incompatibilities isn’t hampering Android users’ curiousness. At this...