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iOS 8 update fail, Bendgate: Heads may roll at Apple
Tim Cook must be furious.You can imagine the tension among those who've been called into his office in the last 24-hours. Apple's new leader is no less demanding and passionate than his predecessor -- he's just more likely to reward those who work as hard as he does.And when he gives you a tough time, he gives you a very tough time.Double-whammyImagine his fury in the last 24-hours. The introduction of the new iPhone, Apple Pay and the Apple Watch should be the moment his dominion in Cupertino turned years of criticism around. Instead somehow his staff have delivered not one, but two PR disasters inside a day:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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Apple yanks iOS 8 update after crippling iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
Apple today released, then quickly pulled, its first update for iOS 8 after customers flooded its support forum with reports that their iPhone 6 and 6 Plus smartphones could no longer connect to a cellular network. iOS 8.0.1, which was supposed to fix a host of bugs, including several prominent issues that had garnered press -- like one that barred apps relying on Apple's new Healthkit framework -- was released around 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET). Within minutes, users began posting complaints to several threads on the iPhone support discussion forum. "Looks like iOS 8.0.1 broke my ability to make a phone call and Touch ID on my iPhone 6+," said rgersmrk at 10:25 a.m. PT in the kick-off message to one of the threads.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Apple tells iPhone 6 users in trouble to revert to iOS 8
Apple has recommended to users of its new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones to reinstall iOS 8 after an update Wednesday led to complaints of lost cellular service and functionality on the Touch ID fingerprint identity sensor. The company provided instructions to affected users on its support site for reinstalling iOS 8.0 through iTunes. It said it was also preparing a new software update, iOS 8.0.2, with a fix for the issue. The iOS 8.0.2 update will release "as soon as it's ready in the next few days," Apple said, without giving a specific date. The Health app won't work in iOS 8 after the reinstall, but will be fixed in the iOS 8.0.2 update.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Oh, the irony! iPhone 6 copies the Nexus 4
William Theaker (Samsung Galaxy Nexus); Apple (iPhone 6) Apple's iPhone 6 has been met with effusive praise from the tech press and long lines wherever it is sold. But many in the tech industry are accusing Apple of copying many features found in Android phones and the operating system they run. There is an irony here, since Apple is one of the most aggressive patent lawsuit filers in the world and has famously been at war with Samsung, charging that its Android phones have closely copied features of earlier iPhones.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
iOS 8 and Yosemite are the next step in unconstrained computing
One of the great joys of installing a new operating system is scrutinizing the features born with it. iOS 8 has no shortage of new and enhanced features—Continuity, QuickType, voice notes appended to iMessages, Family Sharing, and Spotlight improvements. But it can be just as satisfying to step back and examine what these features mean and portend for the technology of tomorrow.The window on your stuff With the introduction of iCloud in OS X Lion and iOS 5, Apple shifted from a computer-centric "digital hub" model—where your computer acted as the brains of the outfit and stored the bulk of your data—to a stuff-centric scheme. Under this scheme you didn't care a great deal about where your stuff was—on your computer, in the cloud, or stored on a mobile device. Rather, it was important that you had access to it, regardless of which of these devices you used or where you were.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Former Microsoft software guru Ray Ozzie releases a mobile app -- and it's for the iPhone
Former Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie has just released a mobile app and service -- and it's not for Windows Phone, but instead the iPhone. They can't be pleased in Microsoft Land about this.The new service is called talko, and to a certain extent it's looking to kill conference calls and traditional phone meetings. With it, you make phone conversations more collaborative and interactive. You record the calls, and can then tag them, mark them, and share them with others. So, for example, you can tag particular points during the call that are especially important. Others can then search for those tags and jump right to that point in the call.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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Report: Android L hits November 1, newest Nexus tablet coming mid-October
We are inching closer to a new Nexus hardware and the latest from Android. Read More
New iOS 8 APIs trigger higher app crash rate
In its first days of availability, iOS 8, Apple's newest mobile operating system, has exhibited an app crash rate significantly higher than iOS 7 did a year ago, an app performance management developer said yesterday.According to San Francisco-based Crittercism, iOS 8's crash rate as of Monday was 3.3%, or about 65% higher than iOS 7 at the same point in its post-launch timeline.The crash rate measurement was from the approximately 20,000 mobile apps that Crittercism monitors for clients, which include eBay, Groupon, Netflix, PayPal and Yahoo. Developers embed the company's framework in their apps to track a host of performance metrics, including crash causes and rates.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Living with Acer's Chromebook 13: The good and the bad
Searching for the perfect Chromebook is like scouring the earth for utopia: Sooner or later, you realize it's a fruitless expedition. The best you can do is settle for something that's pretty good with the types of compromises you can tolerate.That's certainly the case with Acer's new Chromebook 13. On paper, the system sounds fantastic: It has better-than-average build quality, a large 1080p display, and Nvidia's new Tegra K1 processor -- a chip Nvidia says packs "more cores than the majority of Chromebook processors" and consequently lets you get around the Web "faster than on any other mobile processor on the market."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
'Time to act on climate change' says Apple's Tim Cook
When you or a friend buys a product manufactured by a company that is not taking action on climate change, then the true cost of your cheap goods also includes a dead planet. Read More
Apple iOS 8 fixes outlined in MacRumors report
Apple With iOS 8 crashes and complaints aplenty, you can expect Apple to issue an 8.0.1 patch for the new iPhone and iPad software before long. Apple watcher MacRumors reports that expected fixes would address: "- Phone: Addresses bugs with call forwarding and freezing when accessing visual voicemail - Keyboard: Fixes an issue with keypad not appearing to enter iCloud Keychain verification codes - Safari: Fixes a problem with videos occasionally not playing - Sharing: Fixes AirDrop support for Passbook passes - VPN: Addresses an issue with installing VPN profiles"To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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