Software

Apple iCloud Suffers Outage For Many Users – The Inquisitr

The Apple iCloud data center in North Carolina began suffering from an outage on Wednesday afternoon. Various Apple customers began reporting the issue which caused problems for their iCloud and iMessage services. As the issue began to receive …

iCloud down for many, iMessages not going through – engadget

Something’s afoot at Apple’s massive North Carolina data center– or perhaps just on the various pipes and tubes leading to it. We’ve received many reports of iCloud and iMessage problems and, looking online, plenty of other folks are issuing …

Windows Phone 8 Wallet hub beats Apple’s iOS 6 Passbook – ZDNet

Summary: Microsoft just revealed several new features in Windows Phone 8 and one of the most impressive to me is the upcoming Wallet hub that looks to easily beat the iOS 6 Passbook that Apple just announced. Last week Apple … Continue reading

Stanford Teams Up With Piazza, Apple To Bring Social Features To Its iTunes U iOS Development Class – TechCrunch

With over 700 million downloads, Apple’s iTunes U has been a massive success, but unlike other new online learning services like Udacity or Codecademy, it’s missing a social component where students can ask questions and learn from each other.

Design Shack Joins the Apple iOS Developer Program – PR.com

New York, NY, June 20, 2012 –(PR.com)– Design Shack, a leading provider of lightweight design and technology solutions to build, deliver, and measure marketing messages, is announcing today it has joined the Apple iOS Developer Program. The program is …

Good For Facebook, Bad For Google And Apple – Yahoo Finance

was that the Apple was going to integrate Facebook into its new mobile operating system (iOS 6) in a big way. While this is a big win for Facebook and a nuisance to Google, it’s a deal that could also … Continue reading

ABI Research: Apple iPad Gets Competition; Will Microsoft Surface be the Tablet Enterprise Users Desire? – Bloomberg

ABI Research: Apple iPad Gets Competition … The company is introducing a fragmented OS strategy with Windows RT and Windows 8 (something Google has been chastised for by developers of the Android OS). * It assumes that the popularity of …

Apple may have partnered with Skobbler to perfect iOS 6 maps – Venturebeat.com

Apple may be developing its map feature in iOS 6 alongside Skobbler, a mobile developing company that uses Open Street Maps to create its own map applications. A developer with early access to iOS 6 was allegedly playing around with … Continue reading

Google launches local deals app for Apple’s iOS – Fiercemobilecontent

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) launched Offers, a location-targeted daily deals application optimized for devices running Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS mobile operating system. The free Google Offers app pinpoints offers in the iPhone or iPad user’s immediate …

Gartner sees Microsoft stealing market share from Apple – Fortune Tech

That would put Surface in third place after Apple’s (AAPL) iOS and Google’s (GOOG) Android. She was even more bullish about Microsoft’s chances in the smartphone business. By 2015, according to a companion press release, Microsoft’s Windows …