Software

Waxman, Butterfield Seek Info From Apple On Info Sharing – Broadcasting Cable

Wednesday’s letter (This incident raises questions about whether Apple’s iOS app developer policies and practices may fall short when it comes to protecting the information of iPhone users and their contacts.) comes from House Energy & Commerce Committee …

iCloud has 100 million users – Mobile Entertainment

Apple CEO Tim Cook talked to Goldman Sachs yesterday, and dropped a bunch of stats. He reported encouraging take-up of the cloud storage service that was only unveiled last summer. iCloud updates and uploads in the background every time new … Continue reading

iCloud Syncing Photos, Docs & More for 100 Million Users – Gotta Be Mobile

iCloud launched in October with iOS 5, but in just a few short months the syncing service for the iPhone, iPad, Mac and PC has grown to over 100 million users. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the new milestone in … Continue reading

Mobile Apps Take Data Without Permission – New York Times Blogs

Developers who build applications for Apple iOS and Google Android devices have access to programming code that allows them to take this information and store it on servers, often without people’s knowledge. This practice came to light last …

Software Review: Tiffen Dfx 3.0 – Photo District News

Tiffen Dfx 3.0 is offered in a couple of different versions, either as a standalone app ($169); a plug-in ($199) for Adobe Photoshop, Elements and Lightroom, and Apple Aperture (one plug-in license will run on all the programs if they’re … Continue reading

Appigo’s Corkulous Idea Board App Now Free for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch – YAHOO!

iCloud is a service provided by Apple to iOS users which stores Corkulous documents and wirelessly pushes them to a user’s iOS devices. Dropbox is a third party service and currently offers basic accounts free. Dropbox is available at: http://www.dropbox … Continue reading

PressReader Gets Some Love, Wins 2011 Best App Ever Award – Consumer Electronics Net

PressReader, which delivers more than 2,000 full-content newspapers from 93 countries to the most popular smartphones and tablets, was selected as the best newspaper app for Apple iOS, beating out The Daily, Flipboard, Guardian iPad Edition, NY Times …

Apple stock hits $500 milestone – Apple Insider

As first reported by AppleInsider, Apple is now worth more than rivals Microsoft and Google combined. Much of the company’s meteoric rise can be attributed to near overwhelming demand for iOS devices like the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. In … Continue reading

Apple gets more new apps than Android, widens app gap – Apple Insider

Fresh data released on Tuesday suggests that the number of new apps entering the Apple App Store outpace those from the competing Google Market three to one, with developers leaning toward iOS as partly because of Android’s platform fragmentation.

Apple Strikes Back In Jailbreak-Siri Arms Race – TechCrunch

The problem, of course, is that Apple gets to decide what devices are compatible, not the users. So they’ve taken steps to undo the work that hackers and jailbreakers have done to bring Siri to older iOS devices. Today brings … Continue reading