Software

Apple bests itself, iOS passes the Mac – TECH.BLORGE.com

News flash — Apple’s biggest and most ruthless competitor is itself. The company dominates the plain jane media (a.k.a. mp3) player segment, which many believe is terminal decline largely due to competition from Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch and iPad …

U.S. Air Force May Buy 18,000 Apple IPad2s for Flight Crews – Businessweek

RIM Market Share Other military branches have also begun buying phones and tablets running Apple’s iOS and Mountain View, California-based Google Inc.’s Android operating systems. The Army has purchased about 1,300 various mobile devices as …

Apple iPhone Sales Hurting Wireless Carrier Profits – The Inquisitr

While Apple creates each iOS based device for an estimated price of just $150 they sell those phones to carriers for $600. To get customers interested wireless carriers then turn around and sell iPhones back to customers for as little … Continue reading

DxO FilmPack 3.1: Revisit the Look of Film – IDG NEWS

FilmPack is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS4 and CS5 (32-bit only), Adobe Lightroom 3, and Apple Aperture 3 (as well as DxO’s own Optics Pro). And it has one purpose: to alter digital images so that they will emulate … Continue reading

Here’s More Evidence Why Mac OS Means Less to Apple – Technologizer

What many of them miss is the simple fact that the Mac platform is less and less important to Apple as it continues to post strong sales of iOS devices. iOS is the future, and that future is now if … Continue reading

DxO FilmPack 3.1 Review: Revisit the Look of Film – PC World

FilmPack is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS4 and CS5 (32-bit only), Adobe Lightroom 3, and Apple Aperture 3 (as well as DxO’s own Optics Pro). And it has one purpose: to alter digital images so that they will emulate … Continue reading

iOS web traffic overtakes Mac OS – ZDNet

iOS passes Mac OS with 8.15% of all web traffic, whereas Mac OS only sees 7.96%. A couple of things did strike me about the data. During the last financial quarter Apple sold a staggering 28 million iPhones and iPads … Continue reading

Apple seeks U.S. ban on Galaxy Nexus – CNET News

Apple’s Steve Jobs thought Android was a knock-off of his company’s iOS operating system and famously said Apple was “going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.” Since then, the battle … Continue reading

IBM: BYOD Brings Security Woes, Consumerization & Hassles Over iPhone Vs. Android OS – Brighthand

With more and more employees bringing their own personal smartphones and tablets in to work, employers are weighing differences between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android OS, including security and management features, said officials of IBM — a company that …

iOS Web Traffic Now Greater Than Mac OS X’s – Social Barrel

Web traffic going through Apple’s iOS platform has surpassed the web traffic from the Cupertino, California-based company’s Mac OS X, a new study has found. The news comes from data gathered and analyzed by analytics company Chitika which says that … Continue reading