Here’s something that’s a bit of a change for you. It appears that Apple forgot to turn on the client protection in its latest release of iOS 5. The Gold Master release, which is essentially the same thing that will ship out to customers as a live version on October 12th, is the final...
Daily Archives: October 4, 2011
New Wiretapping Act puts Italian Wikipedia at risk of deletion
If you’re trying to load up the Italian version of Wikipedia, the crowd-sourced and free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, you will instead find a letter informing readers that the page might soon be deleted. A new law currently being debated by the Italian Parliament known as “DDL Intercettazioni”, or the Wiretapping Act, “requires...
Everything You Need To Know About The iPhone 4S (AAPL)
Image: Screenshot See Also: Here’s Everything Apple Announced At Its Huge iPhone Event Today iPhone 4S: Big Disappointment, Will Still Be The World’s Best Selling Phone iPhone Owners: Will You Upgrade To The iPhone 4S? The word is out. It’s official. Apple is launching the iPhone 4S on October 14. The 4S is a...
Project Blowfish: Look like the brand you want to be
“We like what you guys are doing but there’s no way we’d replace the aorta of our communications infrastructure with a beta box from a 20-person startup” – Director of IT, Fidelity Investments (circa 2002) Call it the enterprise startup conundrum: how do you earn legitimacy if no one will give you an opportunity...
Leaked Sales Data Puts Kindle Fire Sales At 250,000 Over Five Days
Here’s an interesting tidbit that was unfortunately lost in the iPhone flurry this morning: some internal sales stats have apparently leaked from within Amazon, revealing that the new Fire tablet has some extremely impressive numbers. We saw some numbers a day or two ago but the source didn’t seem reliable — these seem a...
The new iPhone does 1080p. But what about Apple TV?
One of the big upgrades in the new Apple iPhone 4S is its camera: In addition to upgrading from 5 megapixels to 8 megapixels for still photos, the newest iPhone can also record video in full 1080p HD quality. That’s a big boost over the current iPhone 4′s 720p camera, but the upgrade may...
Watch The iPhone 4S Keynote In Its Entirety (AAPL)
Watch the Presentation in HD Watch streaming video from today’s special event. Streaming video requires Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion, Safari on iOS 3 or later, or QuickTime 7 on Windows. Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/deMsr5SQyWk/index.html
There are 500k apps in the Apple App Store, 1 billion downloaded every month.
Apple has just announced some startling app store figures. There are over 500,000 apps in the app store including 140,000 iPad apps. And even more impressively, over 1 billion apps are downloaded every month. Other facts include a total of 18 billion app downloads with 16 billion song downloads. More to follow, please refresh...
, 250 Million iOS Devices Sold
Tim Cook started today’s iPhone announcement off with some Apple stats, and he had a lot of good news. First was their growth in the retail sector, where Cook focused on the new stores in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Cook’s headline stat was that while their store in LA took a month to reach...
Apple sold 250M iOS devices, 61% of browsing market
Apple has now sold 250 Million iOS devices. Looking at browsing, iOS accounts for 61% of that market versus Android and other mobile browsers. Senior VP of iOS Software at Apple Inc., Scott Forstall, stated, “We’ve already sold more than a quarter billion devices. That makes iOS the number 1 mobile OS.” The announcement...