Daniel Eran Dilger
In back to back press releases with payloads of sensationalized misinformation, two apparently unrelated groups launched attacks on Mac OS X’s reputation for delivering better real world security for its users compared to Microsoft’s Windows. In the first, a contest held at the CanSecWest Applied Security Conference, sponsored in part by Microsoft, suggested [...]
Apple’s newly released iphone SDK revision (beta 2) includes an updated iphone Emulator that runs iphone OS 2.0 build 5A225c. The previous edition of the iphone SDK included iphone OS 1.2 build 5A147.
Other than a series of under-the-hood code handling changes, the new revision utilizes an updated version of WebKit — build 525.15 — to [...]
Time Capsule, announced at this years’ Macworld Expo, serves as a simple rebranding of the AirPort Extreme with an integrated hard drive and power supply. Apple sells the new Time Capsule next to last years AirPort Express and the compact AirPort Express. This segment, the first of six exploring Time Capsule in depth, highlights the [...]
Apple has released a new build of the iphone SDK to registered developers. The new release includes much-anticipated support for building iphone user interfaces using the Xcode Interface Builder tool. This tool allows developers to graphically design application elements using drag-and-drop (from templates), and then to link these graphical controls to writeen source code.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Jefferson Graham of USA Today reports that Amazon’s MP3 store “has quietly become No. 2 in digital sales since opening nearly six months ago,” behind Apple’s iTunes. That idea is being widely publicized by the big music labels, who hope to gain some leverage against Apple in order to push their own plans [...]
<p>A forthcoming, major iphone OS revision — dubbed 2.0 by Apple but currently number 1.2 — may soon leak to the public, iphone Atlas has learned. The update is currently officially available only to those who have been accepted into Apple’s $99 iphone Developer program or who have been selected to beta test the release’s [...]