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Mobile Developers Still Choosing Android Over iOS

PCWorld (blog) - Eric Mack - 8 Jun, 2011
More than 5000 iOS developers are in San Francisco for Apple's big party at the Worldwide Developers Conference, but a new report says the hippest place to be is the Android Market. The study, from Bluevia and ...

iOS 5 code points to two iPad 3 models

CNET - Lance Whitney - 8 Jun, 2011
A peek into the code for Apple's upcoming iOS 5 reveals two new iPad 3 models potentially in the works, according to sources at tech site TUAW. Checking out the code files for USB devices in the iOS 5 firmware, TUAW uncovered ...

Apple takes first step to iCloud with iTunes 'upgrade'

GMANews.TV - 8 Jun, 2011
After announcing its foray into cloud computing, Apple Inc. has started upgrading its software to use the cloud, starting with its iTunes program. The new "iTunes in the Cloud beta" software claims to let users download new music, apps, and buy book on ...

The Financial Times is launching an Apple circumventing web app

Inquirer - Spencer Dalziel - 8 Jun, 2011
BEAN COUNTER FAVOURITE The Financial Times (FT) is going to launch an HTML5 web app for all tablets in a bid to free itself from Apple's cutthroat pricing demands. The FT said it is in a "Mexican stand off" with Apple and it wants to ...

Most developers are coding for Google's Android instead of Apple's IOS

Inquirer - Dean Wilson - 8 Jun, 2011
THE MAJORITY OF DEVELOPERS are building apps for Google's Android operating system with fewer coding for Apple's IOS, according to a report by Bluevia and Vision Mobile. Entitled Developer Economics 2011, the study shows that 67 per cent ...

Can the FT Help Publishers Quit Their Apple Addiction?

BusinessWeek - Bobbie Johnson - 8 Jun, 2011
Ever since the iPhone and iPad arrived, publishers have spent millions building dedicated software to try to cash in on the app boom. Everyone who was anyoneâ€"from the Wall Street Journal to Wired â€"just had to have an appâ€"even though ...

How to stay synced with iCloud

CNET - Sharon Vaknin - 8 Jun, 2011
Finally, Apple has given users a way to sync their purchased music, apps, and books wirelessly. With iCloud, whatever you download on one device--your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or computer--can be set to automatically download on all ...

Apple iOS 5 jam-packed with new features

CANOE (blog) - Greg Gazin - 8 Jun, 2011
Since it was preannounced, no one was surprised at WWDC 2011 when Scott Forstall, Apple SVP iOS Software, took us through a preview of Apple iOS 5, slated for release this fall. However, what we didn't expect was the extensive list of over 200 new ...

Hackers jailbreak iOS 5 in under 24 hours

Register - 8 Jun, 2011
Like clockwork, hackers said they've removed the digital locks in the latest version of Apple's iOS so it will run applications not officially sanctioned by the company. iOS 5 was unveiled on Monday, and a beta version was made available to a limited ...

Rumor: Siri integration not announced at WWDC but coming to iOS 5

CNET (blog) - Joe Aimonetti - 8 Jun, 2011
According to tech blogger Robert Scoble, as reported by TechCrunch, despite Apple not announcing a major voice activation upgrade during WWDC, the technology will still be included in the public iOS 5 release. ...

Copycat! 10 features iOS 5 borrows from others

msnbc.com - Rosa Golijan, Wilson Rothman - 8 Jun, 2011
News and reviews about the hardware you want and the software you need. For an up-to-date playlist of Gadgetbox videos and a full complement of the day's gadget news, go here. By Rosa Golijan and Wilson Rothman When Apple presented iOS 5 â€" the latest ...

iOS 5 beta jailbroken in less than 24 hours

CNET - Josh Lowensohn - 8 Jun, 2011
A shot of an iPod Touch with what is purportedly a jailbroken version of iOS 5. The next major version of Apple's iOS has been exploited less than a day after its beta release to developers. A member of the iPhone Dev Team--a group of ...

iOS 5 Looks Great, Has Two Glaring Omissions

PCWorld - Mike Keller - 8 Jun, 2011
Now that the dust has settled from yesterday's Worldwide Developer Conference keynote, I can safely say iOS 5 will be a huge win for Apple. Playing around with some of the new features such as Notification ...

Why the Financial Times's new app matters

CanadianBusiness.com (blog) - Jordan Timm - 8 Jun, 2011
Even if the timing was a coincidence, the message was unmistakable. The day after Apple announced the next step in its path to world domination, the London-based Financial Times newspaper unveiled a web-based smartphone ...

Financial Times Web app skirts subscriptions fracas

CNET - Josh Lowensohn - 8 Jun, 2011
The Financial Times has opted to put its resources into developing a Web app over a native software client to deliver written content to readers on tablets and other devices. The news comes two months after the publication said that ...

Five Ways Apple Rips-Off Android with iOS 5

PCWorld - Ian Paul - 8 Jun, 2011
Apple unveiled a host of new features in iOS 5 due out this fall including revamped notifications, over-the-air updates, and cloud data storage. You might even call these new features magical or revolutionary, ...

iOS 5: Five Things Apple Left Out

InformationWeek - Eric Zeman - 8 Jun, 2011
Apple's new iOS 5, unveiled Monday at WWDC, delivers 200 new features to iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users. But Apple still managed to forget a few key twists. By Eric Zeman InformationWeek There's no doubt that iOS 5 is a welcome update to Apple's ...

Apple iOS 5, Lion: Magical Innovation or Blatant Copying?

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 8 Jun, 2011
As Apple rolled out a preview of iOS 5 and iCloud and gave a more detailed rundown of Lion OS X yesterday, there were a couple of raised eyebrows in the blogosphere from those who thought Apple was borrowing heavily from existing ...

iCloud and More: Ten Questions About the Recent Apple News

TIME - Harry McCracken - 8 Jun, 2011
Almost 38000 folks turned out for Technologizer's live coverage of Apple's WWDC keynote yesterday morning. We had a good time. But as the comments came in from attendees, there was clearly a serious contingent of ...

WWDC 2011: iOS 5 notifications go from stink to stellar

ZDNet (blog) - Jason D. O'Grady - 8 Jun, 2011
By Jason D. O'Grady | June 7, 2011, 11:43am PDT One of iOS' biggest drawbacks to date is its horrible notification system. You know what I'm talking about, you're busy tapping away an email (or working on that impossible Angry Birds level), and BLING!, ...

Financial Times Introduces Web App in Effort to Bypass Apple

New York Times - Eric Pfanner - 8 Jun, 2011
PARIS â€" The Financial Times on Tuesday introduced a mobile Web application aimed at luring readers away from Apple's iTunes App Store, throwing down the gauntlet over new business conditions that Apple is set to impose on publishers who ...

Which iOS 5 feature excites you the most? (poll)

CNET (blog) - Rick Broida - 8 Jun, 2011
Unless you were sleeping under rock a yesterday, you heard that iOS 5 is official and coming to an iDevice near you this fall. (Here's a brief tour of what's inside.) Although CNET's Kent German thinks Apple took only "baby steps" with ...

Apple's IOS 5 gets jailbroken within 24 hours of launch

Inquirer - Lawrence Latif - 8 Jun, 2011
SHINY TOY MAKER Apple clearly hasn't put too much effort into protecting IOS 5 from the Iphone Dev Team, with one of its members claiming to have already jailbroken IOS 5. Musclenerd, a well known member of the Iphone Dev Team, ...

Rule Britannia? FT fires warning shot at Apple

Reuters Blogs (blog) - 8 Jun, 2011
The release of a Financial Times app that bypasses Apple's App Store is a warning shot at the iPad maker's quest to rule the high seas of digital publishing. “We are determined to make it as accessible as possible for the user,” John Ridding, ...

Hey, Steve Jobs, where's my iPhone 5?

The Guardian (blog) - 8 Jun, 2011
For the past two years, Apple has launched a new iPhone at WWDC. So why didn't it do that this time? And what does the wait until September for iOS 5 indicate? A whole new mobile strategy from Apple, that's what The fun days of WWDC 2008, when getting ...

Apple's New iOS5 Already Jailbroken

PCWorld - Chris Brandrick - 8 Jun, 2011
Less than 24 hours after Apple executives took to the stage at this year's WWDC and announced iOS 5, hackers already took to Apple's upcoming mobile OS and jailbroke it. (Shocking, I know! ...

iOS 5: What We Wanted vs. What We Got

PC Magazine - William Fenton - 8 Jun, 2011
Only two of our nine iOS 5 wishes were granted. To be fair, we got our number one wish (wireless syncing)â€"and a whole lot more. Here are the details. By William Fenton iOS 5: What We Wanted vs. What We Got With WWDC in the rear-view mirror, ...

App developers caught in iCloud storm

Financial Times - Tim Bradshaw - 8 Jun, 2011
Several of the hundreds of new software features announced by Apple this week threaten the existence of many independent developers, whose App Store creations are set to be built into the Mac and iPhone ...

iCloud's Syncing Limitations May Keep Service Back

PCWorld - Brennon Slattery - 8 Jun, 2011
Apple's iCloud promises to sync every document and every edit across multiple devices but Apple's idea of every document is every iWork document. If iCloud doesn't play nice with Microsoft Office, ...

Apple iCloud Purchasing First Look

InformationWeek - ‎Jun 7, 2011‎
Brian Burgess 06/07/2011 Apple's iCloud will give you the ability to see all apps you've purchased on any of your iOS devices and download them to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch without a wire in sight. Join BYTE executive editor Brian Burgess for a ...

 

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