Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt in Beijing, hinted at a future addition to the popular image-sharing service that would include video posts. Systrom’s talk at the Disrupt event also included thoughts on international expansion for Instagram and how social media should be approached in places like China. But, the real gem was …

Image Composite by Joe Aimonetti A follow-up to 9to5Mac’s report on developer Steven Troughton-Smith’s porting of Siri to an iPhone 4 reveals that another developer, Ryan Petrich, has created a scenario for Siri to function on an iPhone 3GS, though performance is not very good. Last week Siri was hacked to run on an iPhone 4 by jailbreaking an iPhone …

According to initial reports from Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Apple’s stock of iPhone 4S allocated for preorders in Hong Kong sold out in 10 minutes. Apple began the preordering Friday in China and 14 other countries. Ticonderoga’s Brian White, an analyst specializing in Apple’s business in China, reported that the window to reserve an iPhone 4S in China was short and …

In a recent patent application uncovered by AppleInsider, Apple is investigating the use of power-efficient organic light-emitting diode displays for its mobile devices, a technology that could help improve the battery life of iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches. Apple is banking on OLED’s light emissive approach, which has lower power constraints than LED’s light transmissive technology, currently used in iPhones …

According to sources speaking with TechCrunch columnist MG Seigler, Google has indeed been working on, and even submitted, a native app for Gmail. And oh yeah, it’s pretty cool. Despite Google’s pretty great UI for Web-based Gmail on iOS, the native app has been a unicorn of sorts in the iOS community since the announcement that third-party apps could be …

One of the most interesting apps to appear on the iPad has been Apple’s own GarageBand. The robust features include the ability to play several instruments or sit back while the app plays them for you, recording original music at any level of expertise. Previously the app was available only for iPad, which made sense given its complexity and need …

Though much of the troubleshooting attention for the iPhone 4S and iOS 5 has been focused on battery draining issues, another problem has surfaced: users who have activated the Personal Hotspot feature are finding that it is disappearing suddenly. TiPb is reporting that several people have been complaining that the Hotspot feature, an extra $20 per month on AT&T that …

Apple After upgrading to iOS 5 on my iPhone 4, I noticed that my Twitter app was not behaving up to snuff. My troubleshooting investigation led to some interesting realizations about how Twitter is integrated in iOS 5. Twitter’s role in Apple’s latest mobile operating system is a bit different from other apps. The issue I was having was that …

Many of the patent applications and grants we come across involving Apple relate to theoretical products that may never see the light of day. Today, Apple has been granted a patent that covers one of the most basic (and copied) processes in iOS, slide to unlock. Though Apple holds many patents pertaining to gestures, the slide-to-unlock gesture is both symbolically …

Apple has quietly tweaked its iPad 2 Smart Cover color offerings. Gone is the candy-colored orange polyurethane Smart Cover, replaced by a sleeker, infinitely more subtle dark gray option. Also adjusted are the original polyurethane colors of blue, green, pink, and light gray, each being made “more vibrant” according to sources reporting to MacRumors. As for the leather iPad 2 …