Apple News & Articles

Another week, another Apple iOS update, this time to fix issues for enterprise users having trouble with Exchange and calendar issues.

 Are smartphones and tablets out already, 2013 looks to be the year of 'tween devices and watch-type things as the first of the big guns are ready to launch their Spring season line-ups. 

Everyone wants what Dick Tracy had -- a smart watch that’s way ahead of its time.

Even with more mobile phone choices than ever, according to a recent Gartner report, sales dropped slightly worldwide in 2012, but Samsung remained the top overall seller of feature phones and smartphones combined.

Nokia has been trounced in smartphone sales in recent years, but its continued success with feature phones and now budget smartphones around the world could see the next-generation of upgraders leaning toward the Finnish firm over Apple, Samsung and others. 

Long have there been rumors of a deal between Apple and Google to keep Google as the default search engine on iOS devices. According to Scott Devitt in a recent investor report, One Morgan Stanley analyst has pegged that deal as one based on a per device sold basis, and it could be worth US$ 1 billion this year alone.

       After some warnings from telcos last week, Apple has rushed out a patch to improve mobile performance and reliability for just the one model of iPhone. 

Malicious Flash Player content has been circulating, and Adobe has responded with an emergency security update for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and various browser systems.

It has been almost a year and a half since we looked into the land of the zombie apocalypse, and the infection is spreading. At the last briefing, the focus was on the endangered species known as enterprise CMS vendors. Current events reveal that the paid software industry as a whole is experiencing an accelerating disruption causing a litany of existential questions.

       While it may not be the best-selling device or be the most used ecosystem, Apple can lay claim to iPhone being the most profitable smartphone on the market, and now the most used device for those accessing the mobile Internet. 

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This week, Apple released a 128GB version of its fourth generation iPad, with a high-resolution 9.7-inch Retina screen. This is the first iOS model with more than 64GB of storage, and as tablet variations from other manufacturers begin to crowd the iPad, bigger storage better positions the iPad for productivity applications.

       Those on LTE networks with the latest model iOS devices get better support from the new Apple update, while Passbook, iTunes Match and a few other features get a quick touch-up. 

Vine, the video sharing app from Twitter that looks to be the Instagram of video, is quickly finding relevancy in the news, advertising and creative industries

 Anyone putting out mobile stories this week will be running straight into the BlackBerry 10 news juggernaut, So, Apple lets the media do its dirty work with rumors of an imminent 128GB model iPad.