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Everything you need to know about iOS 5
The iOS 5 update Apple released today is a monster, and to help you sort through the innumerable changes and improvements Apple cooked into their latest mobile OS, we suggest you take a look at Dan Moren’s exhaustive and informative review over here at Macworld. And if you’re more amenable to visual walkthroughs, TiPb has […]
Continue reading...iOS 5 is now live and available for the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Apple TV
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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As promised, Apple today released iOS 5, its latest update to its mobile OS. Users looking to upgrade can simply connect their device to iTunes (version 10.5 required) and hit the “Check for Update” button. iOS 5 brings along more than 200 new features, with some of the more anticipated improvements being a revamped notifications […]
Continue reading...Siri continues trend of Apple products being extremely friendly to the blind
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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Apple’s new Siri app for the iPhone 4S has gotten pretty stellar reviews from those lucky enough to give it a go thus far. Here, in the Apple produced video below, we see some of the many uses of Siri. Interestingly, though not at all surprising, the last use-case in the video depicts a blind […]
Continue reading...iOS 5 to drop on October 12
Friday, October 7, 2011
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Scott Forstall took the iOS 5 reigns yesterday and took some time going over some of the top new features in Apple’s upcoming mobile OS update. Of course, every Apple speaker has to begin by doing a little bit of bragging, and Forstall was no different. Forstall started off by stating that Apple’s iOS platform […]
Continue reading...Find My Friends app in iOS 5 enables location sharing with friends
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
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Apple yesterday introduced a new iPhone app called Find My Friends. As the name implies, the app lets users quickly see the location of friends who have agreed to have their geo-location data shared with a subset of trusted people. What’s interesting, is that users can invite friends to share their location for a limited […]
Continue reading...2/3 of mobile Google searches originate from iOS devices
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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It’s never pretty when Congress tries to wrap its head around technology, a fact which was quite evident when Apple and Google were grilled over issues related to location tracking just a few months ago. This week, Google chairman Eric Schmidt appeared before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights to […]
Continue reading...Apple sends iOS 5 golden master to overseas assemblers
Monday, September 12, 2011
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Apple over the past few months has issued a steady stream of iOS 5 betas. Now, with the iPhone 5 launch right around the corner, the typically accurate Ming-Chi Kuo wrote in a note to investors that Apple plans to release a golden master of iOS 5 to overseas assemblers sometime between September 23 and […]
Continue reading...JailBreakMe author Comex conducts Q&A ahead of his Apple internship
Monday, August 29, 2011
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Last week we reported that Apple had hired famed jailbreaker Comex (real name: Nicholas Allegra) as an intern. Presumably, Apple’s iOS team was tired of having their iOS security handiwork continually hacked/bypassed (with increasing ease no less) by the 19 year old Allegra. Apparently, if you can’t beat em’, hire em’. Hell, Facebook and Microsoft […]
Continue reading...iOS 5 includes early earthquake notification feature for Japanese users
Monday, August 22, 2011
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In March 2011, an earthquake known hit the coast of Japan and triggered a massively destructive tsunami with waves that reached as high as 130 feet. The earthquake, measured at 9 on MW scale, was the largest to ever hit Japan and is recorded as one of the five most powerful earthquakes in history. All […]
Continue reading...Android and iOS usage broken down by state
Saturday, August 6, 2011
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Mobile ad network Jumptap just released data relaying smartphone preferences measured across the entire contiguous United States. According to Jumptap’s data, Google’s Android OS appears to be dominant across western United States with commanding shares in states such as California, Washington, Texas and Florida. iOS, meanwhile, appears to have the market cornered in much of […]
Continue reading...iOS 5 beta 4 over the air delta update saves 691 MB of bandwidth
Monday, July 25, 2011
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One of the themes of iOS 5 is PC Free, Apple’s effort to cut the proverbial iPhone cord and enable users to use their device without having to tether it back to their computer. This is a good move for a variety of reasons, and primarily because not everyone interested in an iOS device necessarily […]
Continue reading...Apple seeds iOS 5 beta 3 to developers with nuanced location data options
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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Apple on Monday released its third major iOS 5 beta update to developers. Some of the noted changes thus far include a revamped location services pane. Not only is there a new splash screen explaining how Apple uses location information but Apple now provides options for users to have more control over what kinds of […]
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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