Tag Archives : Apple

Give way, iPhones and BlackBerrys, smartphone customers in U.S. have voted with their wallets and picked Android as their favorite in the second quarter of this year according to NPD , a market research company. Earlier NPD survey has shown Android-based smart phones outselling the iPhone in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2010. NPD  concluding that 33 percent of phones sold during the [...]

iOS 4.1 Beta 3 Apple’s  iPhone Developer Program has released iOS 4.1 Beta 3 to developers signed on Apple’s developer program.  As usual, users should not be downloading and installing iOS 4.1 Beta 3 if they are  not  developers. Jailbreakers and unlockers should stay away if they want to keep their jailbreak ability in the future. iOS 4.1 Beta 2 was made available just over two [...]

iPhone Jailbreakme.com app is a boon to apple device users looking to break the shackles of Apple’s stringent sofware restrictions. Hacking a phone OS is usually done through  exploiting a weakness to get unsigned code onto a device. If  the good folks could open up our phones for us than any other hacker, with nefarious intentions , could use that same exploit to mess with your phone. Think [...]

iPad and iPhone Software and hacks to liberate your iPhone OS from Apple’s restrictive and monopolistic design is as old as the iPhone itself, with iPhone dev team  and other developers tirelessly working to open up your iPhone to a host of apps which Apple prohibited. Jailbreaking had got a boost last week when the U.S. government updated its regulations  legalise “jailbreaking,” though [...]

Apple Apple’s  acquisition of online streaming music company  Lala.com last year was seen as the Cupertino based company’s foray into cloud computing services, it made sense. Google  already was successful in its cloud based ventures (gmail, picassa and related services), Microsoft was focussing big time with online collaboration getting extra focus in  Office 2010 version. When Apple [...]

Smartphone Market share Q2 2010 Apple’s iPhone may be  hitting the headlines for right or wrong reasons and getting more than adequate  attention, but, that does not guarantee better market share, likewise, the erstwhile Finnish mobile czar Nokia may be not making as much noise (barring few digs at Apple) as it use to,nevertheless, that hasnt stopped it from retaining a substantial lead in [...]

Apple Safari icon After releasing new hardware yesterday Apple has today debuted Safari 5.0.1 which addresses a number of issues with the initial release, including the problem with black backgrounds appearing when generating mail attachments with scripts, and the potential security vulnerability with autofill. Apple  has also flipped the switch on Safari Extensions with a formal introduction [...]

Apple’s Magic Trackpad Apple has launched the software updates required to welcome Magic Trackpad with the  release of  new drivers for the Magic Trackpad, in both OS X and Windows versions. The initial reviews on the internet have been largely positive. The Magic Trackpad is larger, wireless, multi-touch, buttonless, and more stylish, with a familiar experience – It feels just like using [...]

iMac As widely expected and rumored – which was in a way confirmed when Apple store went down – Apple has updated its line of iMac and Mac Pro desktop computers. The new iMacs look identical to their predecessors. But Apple said they boast faster processors and graphic cards that represent a 50 per cent performance increase over the old line. The rumors about a track pad also came [...]

apple store down Try  to access the Apple Store and you will see the  “We’ll be back soon” message.There has been a lot of speculation in the last few days that a new version of iLife and some new iMacs are on the way as there has been a drought in updates for both for some time now. Both Mac Pro and iMac are expected to get a new range of processor options, with a high-end hexacore Intel [...]