Software

Google Aims to Smooth the Path for Android Developers – New York Times Blogs

Android is the top operating system in mobile, but Android app developers don’t seem to be making much money compared to Apple iOS developers. New statistics reinforce this trend. App Annie, an analytics firm, found that programmers making …

Apple App Store downloads in China triple, but developer revenues lag – Computerworld

Schmitt made his comments on Thursday while speaking at the Mobile Game Summit Beijing, where he showed new data on China’s Apple App Store market. As of May, China had the second highest number of iOS app downloads in the … Continue reading

Apple customers in Orlando targeted by crime duo, deputies say – Orlando Sentinel

The Find My iPhone app helped tourist-crime squads in Orange and Osceola counties solve a months-long series of car burglaries early Thursday that targeted Orlando Apple store customers, records show. Staking out the Florida Mall and Mall at …

How to check if your cloud storage service is down – CNet

Here are the status pages for Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, Box, and SkyDrive: The Dropbox status page provides the status for Dropbox web access, as well as desktop client access. Details of updates are also provided below the status box.

Apple App Store Downloads in China Triple, but Revenues for Developers Still Lag – PC World

Schmitt made his comments on Thursday while speaking at the Mobile Game Summit Beijing, where he showed new data on China’s Apple App Store market. As of May, China had the second highest number of iOS app downloads in the … Continue reading

Apple’s second developer preview of Safari 6 fixes crashes – Apple Insider

The installer allows developers to test Apple’s next major update to its Safari Web browser within OS X 10.7 Lion. People familiar with the updated build indicated that it addresses a crash that would occur when typing a string ending … Continue reading

Letter: Tracking criminals with ‘the cloud’ – Memphis Commercial Appeal

The other night I saw a story on WREG-TV Channel 3 about a boy who used iCloud, a resource free to all Apple product owners, to track down smartphones that were stolen from him. This story hit home for me … Continue reading

MinoMonsters releases new version, takes aim at Pokemon fans – Reuters Blogs

Apple iOS gamers who miss the Pokemon monster-battling adventures of their childhoods may come one step closer to fulfillment today with the release of an updated version of MinoMonsters. While Pokemon’s console-based games aren’t available on the …

Groundbreaking app provides developers with automated testing for iOS apps, mobility-enhanced sites – ZDNet

Test Studio for iOS is a free app available from the Apple App Store that lets developers test native iOS apps as well as hybrid and Web apps. The tool can test common iOS controls and record test scripts for … Continue reading

Open entire folders of items in OS X’s Preview – CNet

If you have used OS X, then you likely have at least come across Apple’s Preview application, which is Apple’s included program for providing basic viewing, editing, and conversion capabilities for PDF and image files. While the program is …