Apple released their much awaited music-in-the-cloud service, iTunes Match, approximately one month ago in the United States. The $24.99 price tag came along with a product that differed slightly from the cloud services of Amazon and Google. Apple’s pitch was that uploading music to the cloud would be a breeze. Once purchased, the service would scan your iTunes library and match songs that Apple already had available on their servers. No uploading required.
A new report published by Nielsen offers a lot of insight into smartphone usage in the US. Some of the findings are particularly interesting because of how users trends are separated by age group. For example, the majority of 18 to 24 and 25 to 34 year olds now own smartphones: 53% and 64% respectively. We’ll cover the rest of the findings one by one.
Contrary to an early notion, Apple managed to deliver more than a couple of surprises when it re-released iOS 5.0.1, which was specifically seeded for iPhone 4S users suffering battery issues.
There are plenty of things to get excited about when Apple releases a new version of its mobile operating system for iPads, iPhones and iPod touches. There are usually new features, changes to existing ones and if you're of the persuasion, bug fixes to get excited about.
Fans of Apple's iPhone can now buy the brand new iPhone 4S in another 21 countries across the globe after Apple made the handset available to new territories today. Our friends at MacRumors did some leg work and discovered that plenty of new countries have joined the growing list of places where eager buyers can pick up a new iPhone 4S, with some eye-watering pricing thrown in for good measure.
The Adventures of Tintin will be coming to theaters later this month but a new app has been released if you’d like a taste of the adventure now.
Siri modding and porting has been aplenty over the course of the last two months, with modders, developers and spectators collectively keeping a watchful eye on Apple's voice-recognition technology.
Apple has updated the firmware of its Apple TV (2G) to version 4.4.4, citing a series of negligible bug fixes as the reason behind the new release.
Jailbreak tweaks and apps fall into two different categories - there are some that are designed to make our lives easier by removing obstacles that Apple has placed in our way, and there are those that add increased functionality that, for some reason, Apple has deemed unnecessary.
Jailbreaking enthusiasts have been waiting anxiously for an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5/5.0.1 and they will be happy to know that it is now closer to release. Details after the jump!
