Software

Apple Sold More iOS Devices in 2011 Than Macs in 28 years – YAHOO!

Apple sold 55 million iPads to date, CEO Tim Cook recently revealed in an interview with Fortune. The company also sold 37 million iPhones in Q1 2012 alone, with the total being around 175 million since the device’s inception. All … Continue reading

Google Drive to Take On Dropbox, iCloud – NBC Bay Area

Google Drive, also known as GDrive and Platypus, is Google’s latest feature bringing cloud storage to its suite of web products — and will likely destroy successful startups Dropbox and Box. Google has been at work on the project since … Continue reading

Google Drive to Take On Dropbox, iCloud – NBC San Diego

Google Drive, also known as GDrive and Platypus, is Google’s latest feature bringing cloud storage to its suite of web products — and will likely destroy successful startups Dropbox and Box. Google has been at work on the project since … Continue reading

With Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion Moving Toward iOS, Are We Finally Going To See Touchscreen Macs? – Forbes

All the early reviews of Apple’s new Mountain Lion operating system for its Mac computers (10.8) point to the same thing: Macs are going to run more and more like iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touch. Many of the features of … Continue reading

Last year’s iOS sales surpassed all Macs ever sold – The Register

Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than the total number of Macs sold in all 28 years since the original Macintosh 128k first hit store shelves in late January 1984. “The iOS platform as a whole reached 316 million … Continue reading

iOS 5.1 Will Add Japanese Siri Support, New Lock Screen [REPORT] – YAHOO!

With iOS 5, first released to the public last fall, Apple added the ability to launch the camera app straight from the lock screen. Since camera-worthy moments often strike fast and evaporate just as quickly, being able to quickly switch … Continue reading

Apple releases OS X Mountain Lion to developers – Gizmag

This tight development cycle is in support of integrating the best features of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system into OS X. As Steve Jobs put it in 2010, Apple intends to “hook up” the user environments of the iPad and … Continue reading

iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Feb. 17 – Network World Fusion

In a post that has only a superficial coherence, Nace explains that iOS 5, unveiled in June 2011, was a big deal but it also contributed to the reported battery life problems of iPhone 4S, unveiled in October. So Apple … Continue reading

Apple Forced to Change App Store Guidelines – Softpedia

The problem, however, was Apple’s iOS – not the apps themselves. While these companies had uploaded their users’ data without their express consent, they had done so to deliver benefits based on their information – such as suggestions to make … Continue reading

Many iOS Features in Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion – Sci-Tech Today

Part of that common experience is the cloud. Apple’s iCloud boasts more than 100 million users. Mountain Lion works to make it easier to tap into iCloud benefits across all Apple devices. For example, Mountain Lion uses a consumer’s Apple … Continue reading