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IN PICTURES: The Week in iOS Apps - Picture perfect

This week's roundup of new and updated iOS apps includes a couple of great new options for sharing your favorite photos. We've also got music, productivity, and education apps in store.

IN PICTURES: The Week in iOS Apps - Picture perfect
10 free Android apps for staying in the know

Owning an Android smartphone means never having to say 'I don't know'

10 free Android apps for staying in the know
Free BlackBerry Apps: Your Smartphone's 10 New Best Friends

True BlackBerry lovers, or "CrackBerry" addicts, if you will, can never have too many BlackBerry apps

Free BlackBerry Apps: Your Smartphone's 10 New Best Friends
Android apps for developers and IT pros, at a glance

These eight apps allow you to open a shell, run a shell script, tap the Linux command line, or otherwise put your Android-based smartphone to productive use. Most are available in free editions, and none will set you back more than a few dollars.

Android apps for developers and IT pros, at a glance
10 top iPhone apps for IT pros

While the frivolous iPhone apps usually get most of the media attention (yes, there really are over 175 apps that can produce rude bodily noises), there are quite a few apps that can help you do your job as an IT worker. While less notorious, they are worth your time to download and check out.

10 top iPhone apps for IT pros

Mozilla offers app to create Web pages on smartphones

It's for Android devices and available currently in four languages: Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, English and Indonesian
Microsoft tests app that will read you the news

NewsCast pulls in stories from around the web and then uses text-to-speech tech to fill users in
Updates strengthen ties between Microsoft Outlook and other Office iOS apps

Changes give iPhone, iPad users an easier way to share and edit documents through email
Google spotlights, open-sources experimental Android apps

The company wants developers to submit their apps for Android devices including smartwatches
Salesforce showcases 5 new Apple Watch apps for businesses

Another 15 are waiting in the wings
Microsoft begins private beta of Skype for Business apps for iOS, Android

But the process for getting access to the preview apps is a tad convoluted

When it comes to mobile apps, IT is ‘slow, poor and weak'

Are your users getting the mobile support they need from your IT team or are they bringing their own apps?
This isn't your father's enterprise software

Changing expectations and a new generation of users are transforming the face of business applications
The best apps for taking notes

All I need is my smartphone, and I'm ready to go to class, conduct an interview, or cover a fire as a breaking news story
Phone it in: These apps use your smartphone to capture information

Transform your smartphone into a scanner, a time tracker, a voice recorder, and more with these tools.
20+ iOS 8 features Apple didn't talk about

ome of the intriguing new features you may not have realised were coming to iOS 8
Microsoft's Office for iPad shakes up mobile enterprise

Office for iPad brings us back to the glory days of tech's most celebrated and, at times, despised two-horse race: Apple versus Microsoft