Apple continues to add new features to its upcoming iOS 6 software, so every time the Cupertino company releases a new beta, developers uncover something we haven’t seen before. Following the release of iOS 6 beta 3 earlier this week, new Complete My Album and Complete My Season features have appeared inside the built-in Music and Movies apps.
Apple are investigating an iOS exploit that allows in-app purchases to be obtained for free. The hack, which doesn’t require jailbreaking, involves installing fake certificates on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, and altering the device’s DNS settings. It works by tricking apps into communicating with a third-party server pretending to be Apple’s App Store.
Apple has just announced that it will be reversing a decision made only last week to remove all of its Mac desktops and notebooks from EPEAT – a voluntary registry for green electronic products.
Having announced that they were working on it back in May, Angry Birds developers Rovio today released Amazing Alex for the iPhone and iPad. Originally based on another game called Casey’s Contraptions, which the Finnish company bought the rights to, Amazing Alex is a physics-based puzzler that involves arranging objects to create chain reactions.
A short video featured on the corporate recruitment pages of Apple’s website offers a rare and fascinating glimpse inside the hardware labs, design studios, and meeting rooms of the company’s Cupertino, headquarters.
Having previewed it at Google I/O just under a couple of weeks ago, Google has today released an updated version of its Google+ iOS app which brings new features for the iPhone, and for the first time, full support for the iPad.
Apple has just announced that the new iPad will launch in China on Friday the 20th of July. The third-generation tablet will be available from the Apple Online Store, authorised resellers, and by reservation from the company’s retail stores.
With OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion due for public release this month, Apple has made a GM (Gold Master) version of its next-generation operating system available for registered developers to download. Although the Cupertino company does sometimes release multiple Gold Master builds of its software, the label is typically reserved for final public-ready versions.
According to a Bloomberg report, Apple has today lost a UK trademark infringement case against Samsung, after the presiding judge decided that the Korean company’s Galaxy tablets aren’t ‘cool’ enough to be be confused with the iPad.