|
|
|
News, product reviews, blogs and analysis of Apple products and software including Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iTunes, MobileMe, MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, peripherals and use of Mac and iMac computers, MackBook notebooks and iPhones in the enterprise.
Top Apple News
News Analysis: The iPhone is under attack by a relatively inconsequential worm that has found its way onto jailbroken iPhones in Australia. It might not affect too many users, but it does underscore the fact that the iPhone isn't as secure as people like to think.
News
The iPhone 3G and 3GS will be available at select RadioShack locations this month, with a nationwide rollout to follow in 2010. The news caused RadioShack stock to jump.
News
The first known worm for Apple's iPhone is spreading on jail-broken iPhones in Australia. The worm takes advantage of the default password for SSH used by many jail-broken phones and places an image of 1980s pop singer Rick Astley on the device.
News
Are Apple and AT&T planning to launch a $99 8GB iPhone 3G S in time for the holidays? This rumor was offered by a popular source. True or not, what does it say about the Motorola Droid — and the growing crop of Apple look-alikes?
News
Verizon tried a Times Square promotion for its Droid smartphone on Nov. 6, the same day as the device’s release. Despite the small number of people who turned out for the event, Verizon and Google are hoping that the Android-powered smartphone will attract massive amounts of customers, and justify prerelease advertising that positioned the Droid as a robust competitor to Apple's iPhone. Some early reviews seemed to put the iPhone and Droid on relatively even ground in the capabilities category.
News
Sybase launched new product offerings for the iPhone with an eye toward increasing the smartphone's enterprise functionality. Among the features are administrative policy lockdown control and bidirectional synchronization between iPhone and database. Throughout 2009, Sybase has been increasing its reach in enterprise mobility, porting its offerings onto not only Apple's iPhone, but also BlackBerry and Windows Mobile.
News
Apple's App Store now contains some 100,000 apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Although Apple declined to publicly estimate how many apps had been downloaded, eWEEK's math puts the number at 2.250 billion. The iPhone and the App Store could receive a challenge in a few days from the Motorola Droid smartphone, which runs on Google Android and could encourage developers to create an alternative mobile-application ecosystem.
News
Parallels introduces Desktop 5 for Mac, a solution for running a virtual PC on a Mac that the company claims is 300 percent faster than the previous version. The latest version of Parallels' Mac virtualization software is competing against VMware's Fusion 3.
News
The Apple iPhone has encouraged use of smartphones with touch screens, according to a report by ComScore saying the iPhone has 32.9 percent of the market. However, holiday arrivals, particularly smartphones running Google's Android mobile operating system, are likely to change that.
News
After a French regulatory agency votes against the exclusive deal between Orange and Apple to distribute the iPhone in France, both companies agree to comply, leaving T-Mobile Germany as the last exclusive European distributor of the iPhone.
News
Reports suggest Apple is preventing support for Intel Atom chips with the latest software upgrade to Snow Leopard.
News
NEWS ANALYSIS -- Apple's tablet PC may win an award for most-commented-upon vaporware of 2009. Rumors of the device, which a handful of analysts feel will make its debut sometime in 2010, have been fueled over the past week by comments from New York Times' Executive Editor Bill Keller. Although Apple remains tight-lipped on the tablet’s existence, the company could be finding it more difficult to keep secrets than even a few years ago.
News
Apple's iPhone could become a major competitor to Amazon.com's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook e-readers, says one analytics company, if the number of e-book apps continues to grow. Despite their heavy focus on proprietary e-reader devices, both Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble have developed iPhone apps for downloading and reading e-books. More competitors, such as Creative, are entering the e-reader market with their own product lines.
News
Microsoft's Windows 7 made slight gains in the overall PC market in its first 12 days of release, according to statistics firm Net Applications, while Apple managed to gain incremental market share in October. Although Windows 7 now owns just over 3 percent of the market, that number is expected to increase as Microsoft continues its massive marketing push for the new operating system. Windows 7 has earned mostly positive reviews, which may encourage Windows users to trade up from XP or Vista.
News
With rumors of an Apple tablet reinvigorated, shopping site Retrevo released the findings of an Apple tablet study that found $600 to be the pricing sweet spot — and the need for Apple to get a move on before more Mac users buy netbooks.
|
|
|
| BUILD A MORE EFFICIENT DATA CENTER |
Drive Data Center Efficiency
Demands are growing but budgets are not. Solve your pressing IT issues using the resources you already have.
Find out how
Brought to You By
| |
 |
|
End users may not immediately see the improvements in Mac OS X, but they will quickly notice an increase in productivity--all without significant IT impact. Snow Leopard is an evolutionary step that speeds up common tasks and tightens the fit and finish of the now entirely 64-bit based operating system. The upgrade also adds built-in support for Microsoft Exchange Server, but it's limited to Service Pack 1 Rollup 4.
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 comes at no cost and will be relatively easy to deploy. That said, end users will find little in the way of improvements to the productivity suite, with the "biggest" changes focused on PowerPoint.
REVIEW: On Day 2 of testing the iPhone 3.0 software updgrade, eWEEK Labs is finding itself falling in love all over again with the iPhone. This has everything to do with the updated software's search, new landscape mode capabilities and call history improvements.
REVIEW: The free upgrade to iPhone OS adds cut-and-paste capabilities, landscape mode for e-mail, and the ability to find and remotely wipe devices. However, in preliminary tests, restoring a wiped device was easier said than done.
REVIEW: No-cost RoamBi transfers data imported into a hosted service to the iPhone, displayed in concise, easy-to-navigate charts.
|
|
|
|
|
 Sponsored Sites
|
| FEATURED SPONSORED MESSAGE |
Should You Be Using “up.time”?
Easily Monitor Virtual, Physical, and Cloud based assets, applications and services from a unified Dashboard with up.time.
Deep Monitoring across platforms and best-of-breed reporting. Over 700 enterprise customers in 32 countries.
| |
|
| FEATURED SPONSORED MESSAGE |
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
EWEEK E-MAIL NEWSLETTERS bring you reliable, timely information to stay on top of the business of technology -- and technology in business -- and get more out of the Web. Make your choices and start your subscriptions today!
|
|
 |
EWEEK RSS NEWS FEEDS contain a daily feed of our latest stories from over 30 different categories including Enterprise Apps, Business Intelligence, Security, VOIP and more!
Subscribe to our RSS feeds today for free... |
| |
|
Apple 
