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iPad: Desperately Seeking Guest Mode May 10, 2012 
After you get over the worry that kids or grandmothers are going to drop your iPad and then accidentally trod on it or stab it with the leg of a walker, other problems quickly arise: For instance, what sort of iMessage or Reminder is going to pop up from your crass buddy and mortify your grandma? Which email from the friend who won't stop sending the joke emails is going show up in front of a kid?
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Study: Pound for Pound, Amazon Trounces Google in App Cash April 02, 2012 
Amazon is becoming a major challenger in the overall app marketplace, according to a new report from Flurry. Flurry looked at some of the top-ranked apps across three major app sources: Apple's App Store, Amazon's Appstore and Google Play. Together, the stores brought in 11 million daily active users.
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Apple Ready to Go Off the Google Map? March 08, 2012 
Apple's newest version of iPhoto, as shown yesterday during its announcement about the latest iPad, is using maps from OpenStreetMaps instead of Google Maps for its journals and slideshow features. Google Maps is still the default source of data for other areas of iOS, but iPhoto maps are now using information that the company generated by using OpenStreetMaps.
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iOS Smokes Android in HTML5 Drag Race March 06, 2012 
Apple's iOS handles HTML5-based games as much as three times better than Google's Android in HTML5, according to a new study from Spaceport. The report specifically measured how many images could be moved around the screen at a time while maintaining a rate of 30 frames per second.
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OMG, Apple and Microsoft Have Traded Places March 05, 2012 
Apple and Microsoft have kind of switched places with their recent operating system refreshes. Microsoft, which is dominant with PCs but anything but on tablets and smartphones, is leveraging its smartphone platform heavily to create a new PC product. Apple, which is a small player with PCs but massively dominant with smartphones and tablets, is keeping the two technologies at arm's length.
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Apple's and Motorola's Slip-Slidey Patent Scrap February 20, 2012 
A regional court in Munich, Germany, has ruled that most of Motorola Mobility's smartphone products infringe on Apple's slide-to-unlock image patent. Users of Apple's iOS devices slide a virtual button across the screen in order to "unlock" the device -- in other words, wake it up and make it ready to accept other input. It's meant to prevent so-called pocket dials on the device's touch-sensitive screen.
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Apple Wanders Into Mountain Lion Territory February 18, 2012 
Apple let OS X Lion out of its cage just last July, but the company's already started talking up the next version of its operating system, which it'll call "Mountain Lion." The details and developer preview that Apple has come out with indicate that even more iOS DNA is being mixed into OS X this time around, with more shared features and functions.
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iOS More Crashtastic Than Android February 07, 2012 
The rivalry between Google and Apple in the cutthroat mobile device world took a new turn recently when mobile-app support platform company Crittercism published a study that found iOS apps crash more often than their Android counterparts. Crittercism analyzed more than 214 million apps launched in November and December that use its service.
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Apple's Enterprise Coup d'Etat February 02, 2012 
As a long-time Mac and iPhone user, I always enjoy seeing new people I work with embrace the Apple way. At the same time, while out and about at work conferences and trips, I consistently see more and more iPads and iPhones. I'm sure some of this is my ability to recognize an Apple product while my ability to spot two different Android-based phones is a little less refined.
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iOS and OS X: Time for Some Real Convergence January 26, 2012 
Lately I've found myself more frequently irritated and dissatisfied with my Mac than ever before. This is a weird feeling, made all the more powerful by the fact that Mac OS X Lion is the most useful operating system ever. With a simple two-fingered swipe on my Magic Mouse, I can flick my entire screen to a whole new desktop view, and with a swipe in the other direction, go back.
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Apple Nips at Android's Tail January 18, 2012 
Apple came close to matching Android's smartphone market share during the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a Nielsen report released Wednesday. The debut of Apple's iPhone 4S in the fall had a major impact on the proportion of smartphones sold in the quarter. Demand for iPhones increased nearly 20 percent in December compared to three months earlier, Nielsen found.
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HTC: If Thine Feature Offends Thee, Pluck It Out December 20, 2011 
The United States International Trade Commission has ruled that Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC violated an Apple patent under Section 337 of the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930. It has issued a limited exclusion order that will take effect in April prohibiting the importation "of infringing personal data and mobile communication devices and related software."
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Microsoft Opens iOS Window for Xbox Live Fans December 09, 2011 
Xbox gamers can access their Xbox Live accounts from their iPhones and iPads now that Microsoft has launched the My Xbox Live app for iOS. Access to Xbox Live has been available on Microsoft's Windows Phone platform since it launched more than a year ago, but this is the first time Microsoft is offering the app on a competing system, although third-party apps have allowed at least partial capability before.
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iOS Update Fails to Silence Battery Complaints November 11, 2011 
Apple on Thursday pushed out iOS 5.0.1, an iPhone operating system update designed to address problems some iPhone 4S users had reported regarding the device's quickly draining battery. However, the update apparently did not solve the battery-drain issues for everyone, according to many posts on the company's own support forum.
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What Did Apple Win With the Demise of Mobile Flash? November 11, 2011 
Adobe's announcement this week that it was stopping further development of its Flash player for mobile devices could create more winners than losers in the cybersphere. One beneficiary of Adobe's decision, which appears to have vindicated Apple's dogged stance not to support Flash on its mobile devices, will be the latest version of the language for creating Web pages, HTML 5.
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Dev Dumped After Laying Bare iOS Vulnerability November 08, 2011 
Apple has reportedly banned noted hacker Charlie Miller from its developer program for a year, apparently in response to an app Miller wrote on the iTunes App Store that exploits a zero-day vulnerability he spotted in iOS. Miller did notify Apple of the flaw three weeks ago, the developer tweeted.
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Android, iOS Duke It Out for Smartphone Ad Supremacy - iPad's in the Ring Alone October 26, 2011 
Android has become the platform for mobile advertisers to target, it would seem, based on separate reports from ABI Research and Millennial Media. Android served up more ad impressions overall in Q3 than rival iOS, at 56 percent, Millennial Media reported. For its part, ABI Media noted that in Q2, Android overtook iOS to become the market share leader in mobile application downloads.
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iOS 5: Excellent, Awesome and Somewhat Confusing October 14, 2011 
After learning that it would cost me $449 to upgrade from my iPhone 4 to an iPhone 4S, I pushed the pause button on those plans and decided to see how iOS 5 on my iPhone 4 shakes out first. After all, it's not as if I don't appreciate my iPhone 4. It's a great phone, quite serviceable, and now, with iOS 5, it's better than it was just a few days ago.
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