iOS
The Consequences of Apple’s Walled Garden
At the SysCan conference in Taiwan this week, security researcher Charlie Miller will describe a flaw he discovered in the iPhone’s web browser that allows a malicious app installed on the phone to download executable code from …
Apple’s iPhone ‘Battery Fix’ No Fix at All?
Is your iPhone’s battery faring better or worse after Apple’s iOS 5.0.1 update yesterday afternoon? The update—Apple’s first offered over the air, direct to phones running iOS 5.0—is supposed to remedy “bugs affecting …
Apple’s iOS 5.0.1 Update with Battery Fix is Live!
It looks like Apple’s iOS 5.0.1 update (build 9A405), which includes the anticipated battery life fix for iPhones that bleed electricity, has hit the airwaves. If you want it fast and you already have iOS 5.0, you can try updating direct from your iPhone (under ‘Settings’ – ‘General’ – ‘Software Update’). If your iPhone tells you it’s …
Sparrow Releases Details in Wake of Gmail iOS App Fail
Yesterday Sparrow, makers of the popular mail app for Mac, wasted no time wisecracking about Google’s short-lived and poorly received release of the Gmail app for iOS by tweeting “In a few months, you’ll get the Gmail experience you deserve on your iPhone. Sparrow to the rescue!”
Now, the company has released shots and some key …
Verizon Wireless: Smartphone Sales Up, iPhone Sales Down in Q3
Everyone may be talking about Apple’s iPhone 4S right now, but Android may be the mobile OS that is actually taking over America, with Verizon Wireless reporting that half of the smartphones it has sold in the last quarter use the Google operating system.
Verizon announced sales of 5.6 million smartphones in Q3 2011, with only 2 …
Apple’s iCloud Launch Off to Rocky Start for Some
Happy iCloud day, or day after, or maybe still day-to-come for those of you having trouble getting the darned thing to work. Apple’s iCloud technically launched alongside iOS 5 yesterday afternoon, but some of you seem to be having a heck of a time unlocking the silver lining.
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Smartphones, Tablets Account for About 7% of Web Traffic Now
Almost 7% of the web traffic in the U.S. is coming from smartphones and tablets. As of August 2011, “the share of non-computer traffic for the U.S. stood at 6.8 percent,” reports ComScore, “with approximately two-thirds of that traffic coming from mobile phones, and tablets accounting for much of the remainder.” Guess which tablet …
Steve Jobs: Not a Gamer, but a Game Changer
Steve Jobs was many things, but if we’re being honest, a gamer wasn’t one of them. It was a running a joke in enthusiast gamer circles, that until the iPhone came along, the Mac was where games went to die. Oh, you can dredge up the odd games-related interview here and there, where some diehard Apple enthusiast managed to corner Jobs …
Apple: iOS 5, iCloud Both Launching October 12
At one point during today’s Apple “let’s talk iPhone” dog and pony show, all the live blogs paused and I wondered whether Apple had unveiled its super-secret Cupertino mothership and blasted off. But no, today turned out to be all about the iPhone 4S, iCloud, iOS 5 and an incredibly clever-sounding voice recognition app dubbed …
LEGO, Meet iPhone: ‘Life of George’ Uses iOS to Judge Building Skills
It’s called LEGO “Life of George,” and while it may not sound like it has anything to do with Apple’s iPhone or iPod Touch, it just so happens the two technologies—yes, LEGO technically counts as “technology”—are joined at the hip.
Imagine technology that could tell you if you’ve built something to spec, say a flag, or a car, or a …
Could Amazon’s Kindle Fire Dethrone Apple’s iPad?
Whatever the pundits want to say about Amazon’s new Kindle Fire, however much they want to throttle each other for letting slip trite, presumptive clichés like “iPad killer,” they have to admit, Amazon basically painted crosshairs on Cupertino’s back when it unveiled a $200 color Android tablet at today’s press event—a tablet that’ll …
