You know you've truly made it when you're the butt of the joke on something like Conan O'Brien's late night TV show, and Apple has found itself in that particular position on more than a few occasions. We're not sure the folks in Cupertino will be laughing quite so hard though.
According to reports, Apple has just rolled out its upgraded Content Delivery Network, or CDN, and to us, this equates to faster and more efficient downloads from the company's servers. With speeds into the terabits per second, it's quite a substantial bump, and although we tend to focus mainly on the products and software that Apple churns out, this is a more than welcome improvement to the back-end.
It did take a while for Microsoft to come through with Office for iPad, but with the latest update to the Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps, they're now much more competent than ever before. After the fallout with Windows 8, the software maker has built up a favorable reputation for actually listening to the concerns of consumers, and having taken on board the numerous critiques of the Office apps for iPad, has delivered quite a significant bump to each, pushing the version numbers up to 1.1 in the process.
Shazam is just a great service. The days of sitting there for hours trying to remember a song your heard earlier, or pestering a friend to see if they know the title / artist, or even Googling fragments of the lyrics - yes, we've all been there - are long gone. The music recognition app works its magic in seconds, retaining information on tracks that it tags, and more recently, has broadened its horizons to incorporate TV shows and advertisements. Today, after having had the iOS / Android apps out for a good couple of years now, a Mac version has just been released, and the inconspicuous app is not only useful for those occasions when you don't want to have to reach for your mobile device, but its always-on nature means you certainly won't miss a thing.
Microsoft's Windows Phone platform gets a pretty raw deal when it comes to apps, with developers favoring iOS and Android for the most part. The fact that Instagram only recently made its way to the Windows Phone Store is a testament to this, and with the BlackBerry Messenger app having dropped some time ago for Google and Apple's mobile ecosystems, it has finally manifested itself for Windows Phone. As usual, we've got all of the details right here.
Towards the end of June, Amazon ran a giveaway of Android apps worth over $100, offering a total of 31. Today, the online retail giant is back with another similar deal, and below, we've got the details.
If you use your iPhones as much as we do, then the chances are that you also carry around an external battery pack of some sort. If you carry a battery pack around, then you're also likely to carry some means of charging either that battery pack or your iPhone itself. Or, if you're particularly careful, one for both!
With leaks piling up and everyone pretty confident about what the new iPhone(s) will look like already, all that's really left to the imagination is when we will be first shown what we will hopefully be able to buy shortly after.
AgileBits, the well-known Canadian development company behind the extremely popular 1Password suite of apps, has today officially lifted the cover on its 1Password app extension for apps developed with Apple's upcoming iOS 8 SDK. The official introduction of a powerful new set of developer tools at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference not only reignited the passion within the world of iOS, but also paved the way for developers like AgileBits to extend the functionality of existing software to provide additional power to users. The new extension will finally make it possible for third-party developers to integrate 1Password automatic login into their own iOS 8 apps.
Sometimes you read something and then have to make sure that it's not April 1st, but alas, today is not April Fools Day and unfortunately, this report from Reuters appears to be far from a joke. If it is indeed accurate, the Russian government has apparently asked Apple to hand over the source code for both iOS and the OS X in a bid to try and make sure that neither can be used to spy on it.
















