Apple

How Secure is Your Internet? {0}

The company that has promoted itself as the private and secure one has not been private or secure lately. Apple has been giving out people’s address books. Due to privacy slips they will continue doing this for weeks to come. But it’s not only Apple who has focused on other things other than security, Google, [...]

Anonymous and Apple {3}

Anyone can be a victim of a hack attack. Apple became victim to an attack by the hacker group known as Anonymous. The attack did not affect customer data, but instead targeted the server that Apple uses to process the data of their technical support follow ups. Results of the attack “revealed 27 internal Apple [...]

The Subtle Rise of HTML5 {0}

Over the last two years, HTML5 has been supported and adopted by a lot of big name companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, and LinkedIn. While HTML5 is technically only the latest version of a technical standard, it has come to represent a set of features and capabilities that both enhance user experience and [...]

Hyper-Consumerism at its finest {0}

www.google.com Hyper-consumerism at its finest A couple of months ago, Apple had released their iPhone 4S which didn’t have much of a change to it, but the new added Siri application. This was all they had to bank on due to pretty much keeping the same phone. It was a hit even from all the [...]

Will Google TV 2.0 Be Any Good? {0}

Last year, Google announced Google TV which in theory was supposed to stream videos from the net, allow you to view photos, and listen to your music collection.  They have however been greatly outshone by Apple’s product, Apple TV, which is already expanding and can be found in many homes already.  Now that Google has [...]

Ask Siri for the Answer {0}

Siri, Apple’s virtual personal assistant on the iPhone 4S, applies voice recogition to the next level.   With a strong emphasis of artificial intelligence driven into the system, Siri is able to analyze and decipher the meaning behind what questioners are asking.   Siri is such remarkable software because it makes some of the complex technologies seen [...]

Apple ditches Java programs {0}

This article I read on pcpro.co talks about apples bold move on rejecting any java apps from there iOS app store. Apple announced that java related apps will no longer be approved of use in the app store. Furthermore, apps that are in demo stage, with exhibiting bugs, betas, trials, pornography, or excessive violence will [...]

Everpix let’s you see and organize your pics from anywhere {0}

Everpix is a small utility that allows you to connect to all your pictures, all at the same time.  This means that it syncs all your pictures from Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Instagram, Gmail, and any photos from your computer all on its own cloud based website.  The app was created by Pierre-Olivier Latour and Kevin [...]

“Dirty” Data Producers {0}

Summary: It is common knowledge, that every major technology corporation has data warehouses or data backup sites. But have many of us thought about the energy usage of these locations. Well Greenpeace has, they even published a report titled, “How Dirty is your Data?” in which it listed the top nine technology companies and their [...]

HTML 5, The Future of Mobile Web {2}

So why doesn’t Apple allow Flash web applications on their iDevices? People say that it’s all about business. If iDevice users can’t use Flash applications, then they are forced to download all their apps from Apple’s App Store. Steve Jobs gave consumers six main reasons why him and his developers decided not to all Adobe [...]

Kindle Fire and iPad 2? – the incomparable {3}

Summary: The article describes the characteristics of the new competitor in the tablets’ world, the Amazon Kindle fire, against the market leader by a huge market share, the Apple iPad 2. First of all, regarding price, the Kindle Fire will be priced at $199, compared to the $500 of the lowest-priced iPad 2. When it [...]