Interactive design and design strategy firm ZURB today announced that it has acquired Pattern Tap , “a place where designers can find inspiration and study patterns of user interaction.” ZURB, which has released many of its internally developed apps for designers over the last few years (including Twitter Bootstrap competitor Foundation ), plans to integrate Pattern Tap into ZURBexpo , its content-focused property that it uses to showcase its own blog posts, demos and other content it produces in-house. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed

Yesterday, Apple revealed the latest version of its iOS operating system, iOS 6 , which promises over 200 new features.

WHy ride like the rest of humanity when you can turn your bike into a robo-shifting supermachine?

The charmingly chunky PureView 808 was the first to sport Nokia’s impressive new imaging technology, but it (thankfully) won’t be the last. In a brief video interview with HowardForums , Nokia US President Chris Weber noted that the company’s lauded PureView camera tech would eventually find a new home on Windows Phones. “You can expect we’ll be bringing PureView technologies to the Windows Phone platform and future Lumia devices,” he said.

Kytephone , the mobile app that transforms Android smartphones into kid-safe devices, is officially making its public debut today. The startup had previously been in beta, following its reveal at this spring’s Y Combinator Demo Day , where founders Renat Gataullin and Martin Drashkov first detailed their company’s vision. The idea behind Kytephone is simple

Facebook has developed a WordPress plugin and widgets that make it easier for publishers to add Facebook features to their site and share content to the social network, the company announced in a blog post today. The Facebook for WordPress plugin lets users cross-post WordPress content to their Timeline and to Facebook pages they manage.

Twitter just announced that it will now personalize its trending topics section based on your location and who you follow. This update, says Twitter, will ensure that the trending topics list will now “show emerging topics that matter more to you.” You will still be able to switch back to the standard, non-personalized view and see what’s trending in a specific city or country (or worldwide), but the tailored trends will become the default.

We saw what happened yesterday with the Siri announcements from Apple. Clearly they see it as core to their strategy and its deep integration inside iOS reflects its increasing importance

My favorite travel site Hipmunk just announced that it has raised $15 million in a Series B round of funding.

We first wrote about Tiggzi , a DIY mobile app maker that gives you far more flexibility than most of its competitors, when it launched its public beta a few weeks ago.