BGR says that according to their trusted sources, iOS 5 beta 8 will be released this Friday, September 16th, followed by the gold master on September 23rd. We are just about due for a new beta, so this theory seems on target with other rumors swirling around the blogosphere for an iPhone october launch date. This announcement is the next best thing to getting an actual release date for iOS 5, since a “golden master,” in software terms, is essentially the finished product.

Apple has made available a seventh beta release of iOS 5 to developers for an over-the-air-update download. New features are non-existent; it just offers a few bug fixes and stability improvements. It is the fourth version of Apple’s beta software to be delivered over-the-air to devices, a new feature that Apple touted this year at WWDC. It is being speculated that Apple’s next iOS 5 release might actually be a GM (Golden Master) build.

Just one day before the rumored release of iOS 4.2, several iPad apps are now showing “iOS compatibility” updates. If you regularly check the updates option on your iPad App Store, you’ll notice that those updated as of Nov. 11 now have the “iOS compatibility” notation. One such app is TED for iPad, which was more »

Ever had an error message on screen that you would like to remember or share with somebody for troubleshooting? Wanted to share a screen image to demonstrate how to use a program? If you are using a Mac or an iOS-based device, taking and sharing a screenshot is incredibly simple once you learn how to do it, and you won’t have to buy any additional software to do it.

At their extravagant, live-streamed event yesterday, Apple showed a pre-release version of iOS 4.2. The biggest feature of this update is that it provides the iPad with all the features the iPhone and iPod touch have had for several months now: multi-tasking, app folders and the like. Multi-tasking alone is sure to make the iPad much more useful and help it be more of a tablet computer rather than a large iPod touch of sorts.

If the iPad is intended as a media consumption device, then should it offer Flash, since so much online media is available that way? This article will explore, in three parts, this case for Flash on the iPad, as well as other iOS devices: 1.) Should the iPad Have Flash, 2.) Does Android with Flash Change the Equation, and 3.) Can the Real Adobe Please Stand (and Deliver)?

Apple’s new, improved and renamed iOS 4 comes out on Tuesday. It comes with a ton of new features like folders, multitasking and more. Users will able to not only have more apps on a single page, but also be able to choose a background to customize their home screens. Let’s take a look at some of the more notable features so you can be ready for iOS 4 before you download and install it on Tuesday.

Not only is the next generation of iPhone rumored to have a 5MP camera chip in it, it supposedly will record video at 720p. That qualifies as HD video, which also gives more umph to the rumor that the next iPhone will be called “iPhone HD.” Someone decided to take a peak inside of the iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3, and they found that there are some pretty telling bits of code concerning video.

Soon, many of us will be running iPhone OS 4.0 on our iDevices. Until then, we’ll have to just salivate over new features. As such, Apple has made some changes to iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3 for your drooling pleasure. They’ve moved the iPod playback controls to the multitasking dock, along with a rotation lock button.

This just in, Apple has acquired Siri, Inc., makers of the popular Siri personal assistant app for iPhone. The app uses Nuance voice recognition to find restaurants, movies, events, businesses and more at your request. It can even do some pretty complicated things such as convert your speech into text and then pass it along to someone in your address book. Terms of the offer from Apple haven’t been disclosed, but a managing director at Siri said, “It was a no-brainer to accept it.”