Ever since Google pushed Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), we’ve seen a bevy of quickly put together ROMs for popular devices. Smartphones like the Galaxy S III, One X and tablets like the original ASUS Transformer and Kindle Fire all have one or more Android 4.1 Jelly Bean based custom ROMs available for those who want to get a taste of the confectionery.
It’s not a secret that today is the day when Apple announced their earnings and sales figures for the third quarter of 2012, but it may come as an exciting shock that the earnings call managed to slip in a little piece of information relating to OS X Mountain Lion.
The next iPhone, dubbed the "iPhone 5," is hotly rumored to be packing a slightly larger, near-four inch display, and cases cropping up in the UK serve only to corroborate this notion. Apple has stuck religiously to the 3.5-inch display on each iPhone iteration hitherto, but with many rival smartphone vendors following the ethos that bigger is better in terms of the screen, Apple finally appears to have caved.
It is possibly the news which many people didn't think they would ever hear when talking about Apple's iOS App Store, but one app that is available on the store for download has been found to contain a malware worm within its guts. Before we all go raising the alarms and condemning Apple for first having security vulnerabilities that allowed in-app purchase protocols to be bypassed and now hosting an app that contains malware, it is worth noting that the worm in question is classified as extremely low-threat and is only a possible disturbance to those who are using the Windows operating system.
Every year, scores of security experts gather up in Las Vegas, Nevada, for the annual Black Hat conference, and plenty of major companies have swallowed their pride and involved themselves in an event which doesn't view exposing security vulnerabilities as taboo. Apple, however, has always been a glaring absentee, but in a real turn up for the books, the Cupertino company has agreed to give a presentation at 2012's Black Hat, taking place this Thursday.
Jelly Bean (4.1) is Google's latest and greatest Android release, and while many of the newer devices will be seeing (or already have seen) an OTA update of the buttery new operating system, it now appears the Samsung Galaxy S II - an oldie but goodie - will also be treated to the tasty new firmware.
Before Ice Cream Sandwich, manufacturers put their Home, Menu, Back and Search buttons in different order just to differentiate themselves from one another. Companies like Samsung even went head and removed the all-important Search button* altogether which results in a different Android experience.
Apple and Samsung's court battles are well documented in the blogosphere, and in the very latest, Apple has been granted an EU-wide injunction preventing sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7.
As Apple fans lose themselves amongst the talk of the next iPhone, as well as the murmurs regarding a smaller iPad, the iPod touch continues to be overlooked, but according to Japanese blog Macotakara, the Cupertino company is planning to give the forgotten device a fairly significant upgrade.
It’s believed that over nine months have passed since Apple publicly released iOS 5, bringing with it a whole host of new features and developer APIs including the much loved Notification Center. The previous notifications system - if you can call it that - on iOS devices was clearly in need of a revamp with Apple deciding that the best route to go down was to overhaul the system entirely and introduce a notifications hub where all app announcements are placed together.
