Department Of Defense Approves IOS6
A report earlier this month indicated that the U.S Department of Defense was preparing to approve Apple devices running IOS6 for us on military networks. It’s now been confirmed that the department has issued official authorization for IOS6 allowing Apple products to be used more freely on their networks. The reported stated that out of more than 600,000 mobile devices used by the Defense […]
Home Monitoring And Control: Nest Acquires MyEnergy
The arena remote home monitoring and control is gaining momentum and that might well be accelerated by the acquistion of MyEnery by Nest. Originally called Earth, MyEnergy launched its online dashboard in 2009 as one of the first energy monitoring solutions. They provide users with information on how much electricity, water, and natural gas they use and how much they spend on these. “Giving our customers […]
More Apple Crack Downs On Discovery Apps
A few weeks ago we reported how discovery App AppGratis had its app removed from the Apple App store then its push messages stop to its 12 million users. This looks like it’s part of a much bigger crackdown confirmed by PocketGamer.biz after Apple began rejecting apps that feature tools for “filtering, bookmarking, searching, or sharing recommendations.” We’ve been contacted by one […]
Apple iOS Given Thumbs Up by Pentagon for Security Features
The Pentagon gave Apple’s iOS platform a big seal of approval today, clearing the iPhone and iPad for use by Department of Defense employees. According to an article by Apple Insider, “The DoD will reportedly grant clearance for both iOS 6, Apple’s current mobile operating system, as well as iOS 5, the company’s previous-generation software. […]
iOS7 Rumors Swirl, Predict New Look for Icons and App Design Graphics
Jony Ive, the design visionary behind the iPhone and iPod’s runaway success apparently is hard at work rolling out big changes to the iOS platform. According to Apple news site 9 to 5 Mac, “The new interface is said to be “very, very flat… the interface loses all signs of gloss, shine, and skeuomorphism seen across current […]
Who’s Got the Golden Ticket? Apple Personally Inviting Developers to WWDC
Tickets to WWDC 2013 sold out in less than two minutes, leaving thousands of eager developers despondent and morose. For a lucky few iOS developers Apple is doing the unthinkable, making personal calls to invite selected devs to the conference. According to sources at TUAW an iPhone app developer gave details of his experience, saying, […]
Poof They’re Gone, WWDC 2013 Sold Out in 2 Minutes
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is the hottest tech event on earth for developers and it shows. Today when tickets went on sale at 10:00 am they were all sold out by 10:02 am. Tickets cost $1,599 and were limited to one per person. In less than 2 minutes every WWDC ticket on sale was accounted […]
iPad Easily Beating Android in the Tablet Wars
Chikita, a mobile advertising network just released a research report on tablet devices that confirms what most experts already expected. The iPad is wiping the floor with Android devices in the race to control the tablet market. Since December 2012 the share of time spent browsing the web via an iPad device has risen to […]
Chinese Hackers Debut New Free iTunes App Store
No need to jailbreak your iPhone or iPad in order to download your favorite paid iOS apps for free. According to a TUAW news report, a group of highly skilled Chinese hackers recently launched a pirated version of the iTunes app store. The marketplace enables iPad and iPhone users to download pirated iOS apps without […]
Facebook Chat Heads Hit IOS Later Today
Facebook CTO Cory Ondrejka announced at the D: Dive into Mobile conference that chat heads would be arriving on the Facebook iOS app later today. Chat heads is a Facebook Home feature where instead of receiving a simple text notification about a new Facebook message you instead see a bubble with the head of the person […]