May 9

-According to rumors report that cites “multiple sources,” Apple has been negotiating a deal with Nuance which could see them integrate the company’s speech recognition technology into the iOS platform. While negotiations could have potentially been about an Apple takeover of Nuance, rumors believes that at this point that’s unlikely.With $60 billion in the bank, there’s no question that Apple has the money for a Nuance takeover, but it seems Nuance drives a very hard bargain. The company’s CEO, Paul Ricci, can apparently be as hard to negotiate with as Steve Jobs himself, and the two are yet to agree on a deal to keep Siri’s services alive with Nuance technology.Siri – a company that Apple acquired back in April 2010 – relies heavily on Nuance technology to drive its personal assistant software. Previous rumors have speculated that Siri technology could be a big part of iOS 5, but it couldn’t do that without Nuance on-board. Unless, of course, Apple goes with another option, but Nuance is considered to be the best there is.

-Footprints, an application for tracking iOS devices, but in a good way. Available for both iPhone and iPad, Footprints is installed on the device you wish to track and said device is then easily spied upon using another iOS device. So what’s Footprints actually for? As TechCrunch points out, it has a couple of uses that spring to mind.If you’re a parent that likes to know just where your kids are at all times, install Footprints on their iPhone. Now you know where they are, how fast they are travelling and it’s all in real-time.Run a business that has people out in the field? Footprints can show you where they are, and whether they’re working on that job they claim to be working on or whether they’re sat at home watching Glee.Footprints is free to download and comes with a 60 day trial. After that the packages are: 3-months for $0.99, 12-months for $2.99 and 24-months for $4.99.