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Safari 6 hits Lion with Smart Search Field and Offline Reading List

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated April 4, 2018

Hot on the heels of the OS X Mountain Lion release that just hit Apple's servers an hour ago, Cupertino today unleashed Safari 6 for Lion, bringing some of Safari's features from Mountain Lion to Lion systems.

Most notably, Safari 6 now (finally!) features a unified field which acts as both the address bar and search field, akin to Chrome'c Omnibox. Also new is Offline Reading List, first introduced in iOS 6, which downloads entire webpages saved for reading later so you can access them when offline...

Apple releases Mountain Lion on Mac App Store for $19.99

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 22, 2018

As part of yesterday's earnings report for fiscal 2012 third quarter, Apple's CEO Tim Cook was quoted in a media release as saying the company would launch the next major revision to its desktop operating system on Wednesday. The company just made good in its promise by letting OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion out of the cage. It's available now as an exclusive Mac App Store digital download costing just $19.99 a pop...

Apple blames the rumor mill for iPhone sales miss

Cody Lee ∙ July 24, 2012

Despite the fact that iPhone sales were up year-over-year last quarter, the numbers failed to impress Wall Street. Apple missed analysts' projections by about 3 million handsets.

The company's Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer cited a number of reasons for the miss on today's earnings call. Among them, was persistent next-gen iPhone rumors...

Despite growing sales, Apple says TV is still a “hobby”

Cody Lee ∙ Updated March 19, 2019

Earlier this afternoon, Apple hosted a conference call to discuss its performance over the past three months. You can replay the call here, or you can check out our roundup of the most interesting points.

Among those points, was the fact that Apple sold an impressive 1.3 million Apple TVs last quarter. That's up more than 170% year-over-year, and pushes current-year Apple TV sales to over 4 million...

15 interesting points from today’s earnings call

Cody Lee ∙ July 24, 2012

Apple just announced its financial results for Q3 2012, and is now finishing up its earnings call. As promised, we've collected a list of some of the more interesting bits from the call to pass on to you.

Among the list, is the fact that Apple added $7 billion to its growing cash pile last quarter, bringing its cash total to more than $117 billion. Also, there are now 410 million iOS devices in the wild...

Apple reports 26 million iPhones sold, 17 million iPads in Q3 earnings

IDB Staff ∙ July 24, 2012

Apple ahead of the markets close just announced results for the calendar 2012 second quarter, the company's fiscal 2012 third quarter. As Apple is now an iPhone company, let's just get down to business. Apple shipped 26 million iPhones in the quarter, representing a 28% growth over the year-ago quarter.

The number is down substantially though, from the previous quarter, in which it sold 35.1 million handsets. Apple refreshes the iPhone annually and typically sees two gangbuster quarters after a new model is out, followed by two quarters when growth pauses as buyers await the new model.

iPad and Mac sales, and other performance metrics after the break...

Windows malware found embedded in App Store app

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 18, 2016

It looks like Apple's App Store troubles aren't over with quite yet. A new report is out this afternoon claiming that Windows malware has been discovered in an Apple-approved iOS app.

Instaquotes Quotes-Cards for Instagram, a third-party title that crawls the popular photo sharing service in search of Image Quotes, is said to contain an old made-for-Windows worm...

Password requirement for free apps in iOS 6 seems to be erratic

Cody Lee ∙ July 24, 2012

Yesterday, we mentioned that several users were reporting that the latest version of iOS 6 beta was not requiring them to put in their passwords when downloading free apps.

The news spread quickly, but the assumption was premature. It appears that Apple has quickly reversed this behavior via a backend update, and the password requirement is back in place...

Apple gains important multitouch patent from 1995

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated February 27, 2017

As Google is shifting gear and asserting that iPhone inventions should become broadly available to everyone, Apple is aggressively bolstering its patent portfolio pertaining to iOS software and multitouch user interface.

Just last week the company was awarded a Goliath of a patent that depicts the iPhone's user interface in excruciating detail. Today, another patent grant has surface in the United States Patent & Trademark Office's (USPTO) database that Apple bought from a Canadian inventor, pressumably for a significant fee...

Developers think iOS will win the battle for enterprise

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated February 27, 2017

Apple's iPad and iPhone are picking up steam in enterprise lately as big business abandons RIM's sinking BlackBerry platform. Apple's main rival in the enterprise market is of course Google, whose Android is lagging behind iOS in corporate email and security features, but Google makes up for it with its online suite of Office replacement apps called Google Apps, something Apple doesn't have in its offering.

Despite this advantage, developers polled by the mobile platform company Appcelerator and market research firm IDC think iOS has a significant lead over Android. Moreover, 53.2 percent of respondents think iOS will win the battle for enterprise versus 37.3 percent saying that Android will win...

Apple scores EU-wide sales ban on 7.7-inch Galaxy Tab, loses appeal on 10.1N

Christian Zibreg ∙ July 24, 2012

FOSS Patents reports that Apple has been granted an expanded sales ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 over design infringement, with a German court issuing a preliminary injunction ruling that Samsung may not sell the device anywhere in the European Union.

A sales ban in Germany has been in effect for a number of months now under a decision related to its larger sibling, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, but today's decision extends the ban to all EU countries. At the same time, Apple lost an appeal to bar Samsung’s revised Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet from selling across Europe...

Apple to present at Black Hat Security Conference for the first time

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 25, 2016

Black Hat Security Conference is underway at Ceasar's Palace in Las Vegas and Apple is planning to present for the first time in the event's fifteen-year history. Warming up to hackers, the iPhone maker dispatched Dallas De Atley, its Manager of the Platform Security team, to talk iOS security.

According to the conference agenda, De Atley will "discuss key security technologies in iOS" as "Apple designed the iOS platform with security at its core". Apple's decision to take part in the conference coincides with a few security breaches in its mobile and desktop operating systems that routinely make headlines in the press.

Some of the recent examples include the widely reported IAP exploit and Mac malware that prompted Apple to step up its game with the new Gatekeeper feature in OS X Mountain Lion, designed to only allow for approved, signed apps from the Mac App Store...