Tag Archives : Apple

Apple has announced in a press release that more  one billion downloads of class lectures, quizzes and assignments were downloaded from iTunes U. “It’s inspiring to see what educators and students of all types are doing with iTunes U,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “With the incredible content offered on iTunes U, students can learn like [...]

It’s payback time. UK judge who ruled against Apple and made the company to issue multiple statements stating that Samsung did not copy the design of the iPad has been hired on by Samsung to act as an expert in an ITC investigation according to FOSS Patents. According to Foss Patents, Samsung submitted a list of names of expert witnesses whom the company wishes to file Protective Order Subscriptions [...]

Apple has filed a motion in support of gay marriage to the US Supreme Court  according to a report by Bloomberg. The specific group will argue that Proposition 8, a California law banning gay marriage, should be overturned. With this Apple joins the rank of other global companies such as including Intel, Facebook, EBay, Oracle Corp.,  Panasonic, Qualcomm,  Xerox Corp. and Zynga who are  in favour [...]

Apple’s ‘watch’ rumours may be more than just a rumour after all,  Apple filed a patent application which was first noticed by AppleInsider talks about a a new “bracelet” accessory with a wraparound design where the screen would cover the entire outer surface. Apple had filed the patent application in August 2011, the “wearable video device” described in the [...]

China is all set to go to past the US to become the country with the highest number of active  iOS and Android devices, both smartphones and tablets according to report from Flurry.   More details below : For this report, Flurry uses its entire data set, tracking more than 2.4 billion anonymous, aggregated application sessions per day across more than 275,000 applications around the world. Flurry [...]

Android and iOS once again dominated the smartphone market with 91.1 percent of all global smartphone shipments for the fourth quarter of 2012. Android and Apple shipped and landed 87.6 percent of the 722.4 million smartphones shipped worldwide in 2012 according to a report by IDC. “The dominance of Android and Apple reached a new watermark in the fourth quarter,” said Ramon Llamas, research [...]

Apple’s mobile iOS 6.1 has plethora of issues including connection issues and battery problems and now a security flaw discovered in iOS 6.1 lets people bypass the lock screen of your iPhone. It was first reported by videosdebarraquito, the process is to make and immediately cancel an emergency call and then hold down the power button twice. It doesn’t seem to be all that easy to reproduce, [...]

Apple and Samsung accountes for 52 percent of all global smartphone sales in fourth quarter of 2012 according to a report by Gartner. Overall, mobile phone sales declined across the globe by 1.7 percent last year, the last time when sales fell were in 2009. Below is the report : “The last time the worldwide mobile phone market declined was in 2009,” said Anshul Gupta, principal research analyst [...]

Rumors about Apple’s  “iWatch” may indeed be more than just rumours, according to a report published by Bloomberg  Apple has “a team of about 100 product designers working on a wristwatch-like device that may perform some of the computing tasks now handled by the iPhone and iPad” Bloomberg cited two people familiar with the matter who claimed Apple’s wristwatch [...]

Apple has slashed prices for some models of its 13″ Retina MacBook Pro and 13″ MacBook Air along with bumping the 13″ and 15″ Retina MacBook Pros with slightly faster processors. ‘Apple is making the MacBook Pro with Retina display faster and more affordable with updated processors and lower starting prices. The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display now starts at $1,499 [...]