In iOS 5.1, major security flaw with the new lock screen camera slider
Apple during yesterday’s iPad unveiling has also announced and released the iOS 5.1 update for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The software brought out new features such as Siri in Japanese, the ability to delete individual images from your Photo Stream and redesigned camera access on the lock screen, to name a few. The new button,...
Adobe announces Photoshop Lightroom 4 availability, upgrades from $79
Photoshop maker Adobe, Inc. today announced in a blog post general availability of its Aperture competitor Lightroom. A free beta of Photoshop Lightroom 4 was posted two months ago and today the software is available for education customers on both Mac OS X and Windows platforms. The company’s vice president of products and creative media solutions Winston Hendrickson billed...
Apple squashes Time Machine bugs with Mac OS X 10.7.3 Supplemental Update 1.0
Apple just issued a maintenance update to the Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 system update that was released into the wild a little over a month ago. The Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 Supplemental Update, which is available through Software Update under the Apple menu or as a standalone download here [24.55MB], fixes an issue...
Facebook Messenger coming to Mac, hits Windows boxes
In another display of how native apps are beating the web, the social networking behemoth Facebook revealed intentions to launch its first native chat client for the Mac. Put simply, it brings Facebook to your desktop and lets you chat with people without logging into Facebook.com in a browser. The company posted Messenger app for...
Apple appeases 15 million unofficial iPhone users on incompatible China Mobile network with software fix, due shortly after iPad 3 unveiling
China Mobile, the world’s largest wireless company with 665 million subscribers, confirmed Monday that it now hosts 15 million iPhones on its network with an average of 35,000 new iPhone activations each day. Back in October, its network hosted 10 million iPhones. People get excited about T-Mobile USA’s 1 million iPhones, so it is worth...
iPad 3 round-up: Retina Simulator out, Retina iPads running iOS 6.0 in server logs, 20MB download limit concerns
An example iPad 3 app screenshot simulated using the Retina Simulator tool. Click for larger. The forthcoming March 7 announcement of a third-generation iPad will (again) force third-party developers to update user interfaces with high-resolution graphic assets that will take advantage of the tablet’s substantial pixel density increase. Some developers took to Twitter to complain...
Report: Bloom Energy to power Apple’s iCloud cell farm, the nation’s biggest non-utility fuel cell installation
Apple’s $1 billion data center in North Carolina powers iTunes and iCloud. We told you in October about a 174-acre solar farm Apple reportedly started building to power the new Maiden, N.C., data center facility. Surrounding the facility will be the largest end user–owned onsite solar array in the United States. It will consist of...
New Apple Stores coming to London’s Harrod’s, Italy’s Turin, Sweden’s Stockholm, US’s Portland and Houston
Having successfully reset the center of Amsterdam with the beautiful Hirsch store—the company’s first in the Netherlands, while gearing to launch a landmark outlet in London’s world-famous Harrods department store by mid-March (quite possibly coinciding with iPad 3 availability), Apple is ready to open new retail outlets in the United States and overseas. Per the...
Munster on Apple’s mythical HDTV set: ‘It will be the biggest thing in consumer electronics since the smartphone’
Pictured above: An Apple television concept render by Guilherme Schasiepen. Piper Jaffray’s resident Apple analyst Gene Munster stands out as arguably the most outspoken proponent of an Apple-branded HDTV television set otherwise known as the mythical iTV. With all eyes now on Apple’s iPad 3 unveiling next Wednesday, the pundits are also keeping their fingers crossed for...
Windows 8 Consumer Preview out of the gate: Demoed on 82-inch touchscreen supporting 10 simultaneous users
Microsoft issued the Windows 8 Consumer Preview today for everyone to download and try. Demonstrating the operating system’s ability to scale from the smartphone screen all the way to high-end PCs and beyond, the Redmond, Wash.-headquartered software giant showcased Windows 8 on a monstrous 82-inch display that is capable of detecting up to 100 simultaneous...
Apple: iPad has become brandnomer for tablets, letting Proview use the moniker would hurt and confuse consumers
The iPad maker is defending its moniker by insisting the device became synonymous with both the company name and the tablets. PCWorld quotes Apple’s legal representatives who argued at the Guangdong Province Higher People’s Court hearing this morning that Apple made the iPad name famous in the first place: Among consumers across the world, the...
