After making the headlines for several weeks with its bid to ban Apple’s iPad over a trademark dispute in China, Proview has been denied an injunction against the hugely popular tablet by a Shanghai court.
MobileMe will soon be dead. The service I’ve grown to both love and hate throughout the years will be taken over by iCloud on June 30. It’s still over four months away, but Apple is already encouraging users to make the switch early.
While Apple may be one of the most secretive companies in the world, it has given ABC Nightline exclusive access to the Foxconn factories in China where its popular gadgets are assembled by thousands of workers 24 hours a day. The special edition of Nightline will air tomorrow night, and will finally give Apple fans an inside look at how their favorite devices are manufactured.
With App Store downloads approaching an incredible 25 billion, Apple have announced a contest that will see one lucky winner picking up a $10,000 gift card (around £6300) to spend on apps, books, videos or music.
Following the release of OS X Mountain Lion yesterday, I’m sure you’ve already heard about the operating system’s biggest changes, including the introduction of Messages, Reminders, Notes, Notification Center, and Game Center. But there are also plenty of other features you may not have heard of.
Seven months on from the release of Lion, Apple have today announced details about the next-generation of OS X, along with the release of the first developer preview. Named Mountain Lion, and set for a late summer public release, it has over 100 new features – many of which further blur the lines between iOS and OS X.
Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco yesterday. He has presented at the event a number times before, but this was his first as Apple CEO. Topics covered included: the success of the iPhone and iPad, why the Apple TV is considered a hobby device, and Chinese factory working conditions.
At this weekend’s 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Internet Software Eddy Cue collected a posthumous Trustee Award honouring Steve Jobs for his contribution to the music industry.
Educational institutions looking to buy Apple notebooks for their staff and students are now being offered a lower-specification 13-inch MacBook Air, instead of the white plastic MacBook – which hasn’t been available to consumer customers since July 2011.