Author: Juli Clover

Groupon has launched Breadcrumb POS, new point-of-sale app designed for small business owners that will compete with offerings from companies like Square. The Breadcrumb name comes from the hospitality point-of-sale system that Groupon acquired last …

Mozilla has launched Firefox 21 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, adding a number of improvements, namely to the browser’s Social API. The Social API is designed to allow social providers to integrate directly with Firefox, displaying selected content on …

Leap Wireless today reported its first quarter financial results, noting improved iPhone sales amidst significant customer and revenue losses. Leap, which began offering the iPhone in June of 2012 through its subsidiary Cricket Wireless, announced in F…

Apple today issued build 12E40 of OS X Mountain Lion to developers, a week after build 12E36 was released. Build 12E40 marks the fifth beta iteration of OS X 10.8.4. Apple continues to ask developers to focus on Wi-Fi, Graphics Drivers, and Safari…

Samsung and Apple will be heading back to court in November for a partial retrial, reports FOSS Patents. The trial follows judge Lucy Koh’s March ruling that struck $450 million from the $1 billion in damages that were awarded to Apple last Aug…

Jawbone today launched a new API for developers, called the Up Platform. The API can deliver all of the data that the Jawbone UP collects, including steps taken, distance traveled, calories consumed, and sleep quality for use in third party apps. It is…

During today’s Q2 earnings call, Apple announced that it had hit a milestone of 45 billion total app downloads, up five million from the 40 billion downloads that it reported in January. There are now 850,000 iOS apps in total, with 350,000 of those …

Uclick has released GoComics, an app that allows users to download classic comic strips to their iPad or iPhone for free. Like the accompanying website, the app includes 20 years of back issues of comics from notable strips like Calvin and Hobbes, Garf…

During the Q&A portion of today’s earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked about the number of product releases in the fall of 2012 and whether he wished Apple had done things differently. His answer was somewhat revealing, as Apple is usually hesi…

There have been numerous rumors claiming that Apple is working on an iPhone with a larger screen to compete with phones from competitors like Samsung, but Tim Cook’s comments during today’s Q2 financial results call indicate that the company is not qui…

During today’s Q2 2013 quarterly earnings call, Apple revealed that iCloud now has more than 300 million users, a 20{813a954d5e225a1509f22204ece89c855080ce25555f20805f61bed63cbfde3b} increase from the 250 million that it reported during its Q1 earnings call in January. A year ago, iCloud had just over 100M users. …

During today’s second quarter earnings release, Apple revealed that it continues to see high revenue growth in China, with an increase to $8.2 billion or 8 percent year-over year with Apple’s Chinese retail stores included. Greater China (without t…

During today’s second quarter earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook reiterated Apple’s commitment to creating innovative products:Work we do to produce truly innovative products is very hard. Challenges that we’ll face in the future, but we’re working ver…

Apple today issued build 12E36 of OS X Mountain Lion to developers, roughly a week after build 12E33a was released. Build 12E36 marks the fourth beta iteration of OS X 10.8.4. Apple continues to ask developers to focus on Wi-Fi, Graphics Drivers, and …

Former Apple employee Richard Williamson has been hired by Facebook, reports Bloomberg. Williamson, who was in charge of Apple’s iOS mapping team, was fired in November after Apple Maps faced extensive criticism for its poor performance.Williamson join…

Apple today updated both of its photo editing and management platforms. Aperture has been updated to version 3.4.4 while iPhoto has been updated to version 9.4.3. The updates contain several bug fixes and stability improvements and can be downloaded vi…