Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
Dentsu Innovation Institute (dentsu.co.jp) recently conducted a survey in both Japan and the US, focusing on how users who own digital devices such as tablets and smartphones use multiple device…
The iPhone, iPad and iOS have been approved by the Australian government to be used for storing and sharing classified government data, reports the “Herald Sun” (http://macte.ch/ctpo9).
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Another day, another lawsuit. Another lawsuit has been filed in regards to Siri, Apple’s voice activated “personal assistant” that debuted with the iPhone 4S.
The new suit, filed this week in a…
Low labor costs and a growing reliance on automation will ensure Apple supplier Foxconn’s newly announced efforts to reduce overtime for its employees and hire extra workers has no effect on p…
“Les Echos,” a French financial daily, says — as noted by “FOSS Patents” (http://macte.ch/Ywf5f) — “deep divisions” in the industry over the future SIM card standard made it impossible to reac…
Apple has released iPhoto 9.2.3. According to Apple it improves stability and fixes some bugs.
You can obtain iPhoto 9.2.3 via the Software Updates component of the Mac OS X System Preferences a…
In the wake of yesterday’s announcement from the Fair Labor Association that it had reached an agreement with Foxconn to reduce the maximum number of working hours for its employees at its Apple production facilities, Reuters reports that Foxconn worke…
Australian newspaper Herald Sun reports that the Australian Government has given approval for devices running iOS 5 to be used for storing and communicating classified information. The organization responsible for information security within the Austr…
Low labor costs and a growing reliance on automation will ensure Apple supplier Foxconn’s newly announced efforts to reduce overtime for its employees won’t lead to a corresponding price increase in tech products.
Late last year, Apple was fined $1.2 million by Italian regulators over its marketing of AppleCare extended warranty services for its products. The regulators ruled that Apple was not adequately disclosing standard two-year consumer protection cov…
Following reports earlier this week that Apple has offered to grant royalty-free licenses to any and all Apple patents essential to its nano-SIM standard proposal at this week’s Smart Card Platform Plenary meeting, French newspaper Les Echos is repo…
According to a survey conducted by the Dentsu Innovation Institute, iPad and iPhone owners in Japan and America use and think about their iDevices in different and surprising ways. Japan and the United States are both multi-device nations, meaning many of us own smartphones, tablets, and PCs, which we use both separately and in tandem […]
iOS jailbreaker pod2g let everyone know today on Twitter that he is still working on an iOS 5.1 jailbreak for A5+ devices, but has no clue when it will be released. He’s “working some hours per week” on finding vulnerabilities. We w…
The new iPad’s battery life matches what Apple claims in some of Macworld Lab’s tests. But in all instances, the iPad 2’s battery last longer, even though Apple has said the tablets should display similar battery performance.
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During the week of the new iPad’s release, Apple sold more than 3 million of the high resolution tablets, which quickly depleted stock and left new iPad seekers with a week or two wait for a shiny new toy. That two week wait may drop significantly during the second quarter of 2012, as iPad assembler […]
You’ve got to hand it to criminals — sometimes, the tricks they come up with to dupe folks out of money is just amazingly clever. For example, the case of a gang of 11 in England who used stolen credit cards to buy their own unknown music from iTune…