When it was released in 2010, the iPad was labeled as “a large iPod touch” and predicted to be a market failure by many (including a younger, more naïve version of myself). As it turns out, the fact that it is a large iPod touch is precisely what makes it so darn awesome, especially for non-tech-savvy people like my mother.
Phillippe Starck, a highly-regarded and respected contemporary designer, has revealed in an interview that he's been aiding Apple with a new product set for release in the next eight months, which he describes as being "revolutionary".
Apple has today pushed out an update for OS X which it hopes will close hole that allowed the Flashback Trojan to infect over half a million Macs. The update, named simply Java for OS X 2012-003, comes after over 600,000 Macs were infected by the Flashback Trojan at its peak, leaving third party developers to put together various apps for diagnosing and then cleaning infected systems.
The more popular the App Store has become, the more susceptible users have become to breach of account, it would seem. Naturally, Apple has upped the ante in an effort to combat the potential threat, although as some users have been finding out, the added security measures do seem to bear the hallmarks of a scam.
A new tool has been released by security firm F-Secure which will check a Mac for signs of the Flashback Trojan and, importantly, remove it. Best of all, the app is completely free, that’s right, free!
There's a lot of talk right now about Nokia and its Windows Phone 7 handsets. Specifically, it is the newly released and much hyped Lumia 900 which is seeing most of the headlines and clicks right now.
With the new iPad having only recently released in the middle of last month, there will surely be a few blank home screens crying out for an injection of apps, and with the deals Best Buy is currently running on iTunes credit, now could just be the best time to fill in those empty spaces.
US mobile phone carrier AT&T is currently unlocking in-contract iPhones for those serving abroad in the armed forces, according to MacRumors.
Although smartphones are useful to some and essential to many, the way devices are still treated like a monopoly by carriers makes using any given smartphone with a SIM of your choice an often difficult task.
With the iPad release cycle well and truly behind us for another year, the focus of the tech industry is now firmly toward the Cupertino company's other big iDevice release, which is, of course, the next iPhone.
