One of the driving forces behind the popularity of cloud computing and services like Dropbox and Apple's iCloud is the level of accessibility that it brings, and in a lot of circumstances it can make day-to-day computing activities a lot simpler than before. Rather than having to make constant backups of information or carrying external hard drives or USB drives around with us, having important data and files stored in the cloud allows us to quickly get access to that information from pretty much wherever we are as long as we have a network connection.
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.
As part of the ongoing court battles with Samsung, Apple is seeking to recover a whopping $2.5 billion in damages for patent infringement, as well as $30 per device sold by Samsung, according to new court filings.
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 has only been a matter of hours since the online media brought news that Apple is intending to introduce a new dock connection setup with the release of the next-generation iPhone, likely to be introduced to the world in October of this year. Various outlets, including ourselves, have reported that Apple is intending to reduce space required for connections on the bottom of the new iPhone by doing away with the current 30-pin connection setup and introducing a new streamlined 19-pin connector port.
According to a report over at Digitimes, Pegatron - one of the main manufacturers of Apple's iDevices - has begun production of the upcoming iPhone 5, unofficially dubbed the iPhone 5. The report sites the usual "industry sources in Taiwan," and although Digitimes has a bit of a reputation of delivering stories which wind up being inaccurate, the device would need to begin production soon in order to meet the purported September / October release bracket.
As time progresses, we are moving closer and closer to the eventual announcement and launch of the next-generation iPhone, Apple's much anticipated update to their industry leading smartphone. As is usually the case with hardware evolution from the Cupertino giants, the rumor mill is starting to kick into overdrive with speculation flying around the world wide web about every aspect of the new device, ranging from its physical dimensions to the processors and camera units that will be embedded within.
