Topic Today is the day Apple will make it or break it. We're giving our Apple WWDC 2013 first impressions, live, as things happen, in a special episode of Pocketnow Live. You can tune in to watch us comment on news in real time, as usual, in a live, public (but closed) hangout. Apple is expected to unveil it's next generation of iOS today: iOS 7. Whether there will be mobile hardware (aside from laptops) is yet unknown but we wouldn't count on it. However, rumors of an iRadio streaming service are rather frequent and there has to be, as usual, "one more thing". The keynote will start at ...

Everything appears to be ready for Apple iRadio, at least concerning record labels. After previously inking deals with Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group, Apple just recently made an agreement with Sony Publishing (for 10% of Apple's ad-revenue), having now all three major record labels signed-up. Despite rumors of a WWDC launch, AllThingsD claims that apple will make no official announcement at the event. "Instead, it’s expected to tell developers about the forthcoming service". It is described as offering more of a Pandora-like experience rather than being a Spotify-like ...

While we still have plenty of questions about what we'll hear announced during next week's WWDC 2013, the one certainty has been news of iOS 7. As if all the rumors and leaks weren't enough, we've heard confirmation from Apple's Tim Cook himself that iOS 7 would be on the agenda. Still, they say a picture's worth a thousand words, and as Apple starts setting things up for the conference, a banner has been revealed that sure seems to confirm everything we've heard about an iOS 7 announcement. The lack of any apparent "iOS" wording is itself very interesting - could this stark, featureless ...

Apple's heavy-handed control over iOS can be a bit of a double-edged sword. On one hand, that lets it give users a consistent user experience, but that's at the price of not giving users greater freedom. As we get ready for news of iOS 7, some of Tim Cook's comments about openness have developers wondering which aspects of the platform might soon see themselves freed a bit from Apple's stranglehold. TouchType, the firm behind SwiftKey, is anxious to learn if this might mean iOS support for third-party keyboard software. While many of us treat software keyboards as an afterthought, moves ...

A story we covered yesterday afternoon presented the case that files on your iPhone, placed their by Apple, contained settings pertinent to many of the major US carriers that seemed to indicate that Apple was being complicit in artificially limiting data speeds. While that analysis was accompanied by a bunch of evidence, a new report is out today refuting many of the findings, claiming that the data was quite thoroughly misinterpreted and that it makes no case for there being any secret throttling going on. The problem with so many of the settings contained in the relevant files is that ...

BlackBerry continues to move forward with its plan to release a cross-platform BlackBerry Messenger app, letting Android and iOS users join in and communicate with existing BBM users. Just yesterday we heard that this could involve partnerships with OEMs in order to ship phones with the BBM app pre-installed, ready to use. What about the rest of us, though, who will be manually downloading and installing the app? We know BBM is coming to Android and iOS sometime this summer, but just when? T-Mobile UK just let that cat out of the bag, tweeting the release date for cross-platform BBM. ...

Last month, BlackBerry broke the news that had been rumored for years prior: BlackBerry Messenger was going cross-platform. The company announced that apps for iOS and Android smartphones were on the way, and we'd likely be seeing them arrive this summer. While this was great to finally see happening, we had to wonder if it wasn't a bit like BBM going through its death throes – cross platform messaging is already a big deal, with plenty of apps delivering what users want, so why would they switch to BBM? Now we're starting to get a sense of BlackBerry's plans, and those could mean a ...

The history of the iPhone has always been closely linked to Apple's relationships with carriers. What started off (in the US, at least) as an AT&T exclusive has since seen deals struck with more and more carriers until finally this year, the iPhone has a home with all the big guys. Clearly, Apple has a comfortable working relationship with all these companies. But is it maybe just a little too chummy, and could be favoring the carriers at the expense of Apple's own customers? That's the accusation we're looking at today, with claims that Apple is going above and beyond to help carriers ...