Software

Samsung to unveil iCloud competitor at Unpacked event on May 3rd? – mobilesyrup.com

There are a lot of expectations for what is to transpire on May 3rd, when the Galaxy S III is to be announced in London. As we’ve seen from today’s purported leak, the device is to have a quad-core Exynos … Continue reading

Samsung’s S-Cloud To Take On Apple’s iCloud? – Geeky gadgets

There have been rumors for a while that Samsung is working on their own cloud based service for their smartphones and tablets, and now according to a recent report the service will be called S-Cloud. According to the report Samsung’s … Continue reading

iOS 5.1 Untethered Jailbreak Progress – ASLR Bypassed – Softpedia

ASLR has been specifically implemented by Apple in iOS to hinder security attacks by making it more difficult for an attacker to predict target addresses. Pod2g’s later tweet reads: “ASLR seems bypassed! Weird machines FTW. Time to ROP the payload.”

Apple will invest $250M in new Oregon data center – Apple Insider

Apple has also pledged to pay the governments $150,000 a year, and will receive a 15-year property tax exemption. The iCloud operator will also have a minimum of 35 jobs at the center, and the average wage there will be … Continue reading

Use caps lock in Apple’s iOS – IT World

April 20, 2012, 4:23 PM — Here’s how you can use caps lock on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. This will let you type in all capital letters. 1. Tap the Shift key twice quickly on the on-screen keyboard. … Continue reading

New report says Flashback malware infections remain elevated – CNET News

New concerns emerged Friday about the spread of a malware epidemic that targets users of Apple’s Mac OS X. Last week, Symantec said the number of infections had dropped to 140,000. Another security researcher, Kaspersky Labs, also reported a …

Facebook Says “Yo Google and Apple, HTML5 Apps Will Suck Until Your Mobile Browsers Improve” – TechCrunch

Facebook has revealed that its HTML5 site has twice as many users as its iOS and Android apps combined. But that’s actually a problem, because Apple and Google’s mobile browsers don’t support photo uploads or high-performance animation for …

Apple iCloud users experience outage – Silicon Republic

Yesterday, the Apple Support Communities page had been flooded with posts from iCloud users, from across the globe – from London to Tokyo and Malaysia, with some saying that they had been 30 hours without email access. On its iCloud … Continue reading

Apple’s Phil Schiller says Instagram "jumped the shark" after Android launch – Network World Fusion

9to5Mac first posted the evidence on Thursday afternoon: I suppose that as Apple’s marketing head, Schiller was particularly enamored that Instagram was, for the longest time, an iOS-only application and indicative of the fact that the iOS ecosystem …

Report: Sony ‘PlayMemories’ Cloud Service Due May 25 – PC Magazine

According to the video (embedded below) the Sony service, will bring videos and photos to the Android platform as well as to Apple iOS. An accompanying description claims that the service will bring content to smartphones, tablets, and to Sony … Continue reading