Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

Apple Launches App Store Twitter Account

January 25th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple launched a new Twitter account for consumers that like to receive the latest news about sweet deals and promotions for their iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.

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App Store Passed 10.000.000.000 Downloads

January 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Last Saturday, Apple’s App Store passed ten billion downloads. The App Store currently holds over 300.000 apps and was launched in July 2008 following the release of the first iPhone.

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iOS Products Important to Apple

January 19th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In the past quarter, Apple sold 11% more products compared to the previous quarter. Though most product groups showed an increase in sales, desktop sales actually decreased.

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Steve Job on Sickleave (Again)

January 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Steve Jobs has gone on medical leave again to watch his health. The last time he took off, the man returned with a new liver and a new iPhone. Who knows what he’ll bring in this time.

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Microsoft Questions ‘App Store’ Trademark

January 12th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

After being battled about the ‘Windows’ trademark being too generic, Microsoft is now chasing up Apple for the same thing. Microsoft believes the term ‘App Store’ is too generic.

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Apple Launches Mac App Store, Hackers Ruin It

January 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Last Friday, Apple launched the new App Store for Mac. What the company didn’t expect though was that the store was hacked only hours after opening resulting in many users freely downloading the apps from their store.

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Skype to go Head On With Apple’s FaceTime

December 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Engadget found out Skype is likely to be introducing video conferencing functionality in it’s upcoming iOS releases. The introduction of these functions bring direct competition to Apple’s FaceTime.

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Apple Releases iAd Producer

December 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple has released a new bit of software called the iAd Producer. The iAd Producer is a piece of Mac software (what’s to expect) that allows easy development of adverts for the iAd network. This is likely to be the first step from Apple to boost the iAd network.

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Apple to Somewhat Allow Jailbreaks

December 13th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

While Apple has been monitoring jailbreaks for some time and has an API in place in iOS4 that monitors the status of an iPhone, the company has silently switched that functionality off.

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Head of iPhone Game Technology Leaves Apple

December 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Graeme Devine, the person heading the iPhone Game Technology department in Apple has left the company. Graeme Devine has been working for Apple for a year now after leaving id Software.

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