iOS

Apple releases iOS 4.3.3 update to limit location tracking

by Kenny Hemphill on 5 May 2011 in News

Apple has made available the promised update to iOS which limits the extent to which an iPhone or iPad 3G stores location data.

The updates reduces the amount of data which is cached to one week, and the data file is no longer synchronised with a Mac or PC when the device is connected. When Location Services is switched off the cache is cleared and no new data is collected.

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Apple admits to collecting location data but denies tracking users

by Kenny Hemphill on 28 April 2011 in News
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Apple has responded to criticism over the way the iPhone stores details of its location and copies the data to a Mac or PC.

In a statement on its website, the company said ‘Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so.’ The statement added that ‘The location data that researchers are seeing on the iPhone is not the past or present location of the iPhone, but rather the locations of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers surrounding the iPhone’s location, which can be more than one hundred miles away from the iPhone. We plan to cease backing up this cache in a software update coming soon.’

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Android to take half of smartphone market by 2012 says Gartner

by Kenny Hemphill on 8 April 2011 in News

Google’s Android operating system will account for half of all smartphones by 2012, according to research firm, Gartner.

In a forecast issued yesterday, the company predicted that Android would take a significant lead over Apple’s iOS and that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 would take second place by 2015, with 19.5%.

Gartner’s prediction sees both Apple and RIM losing out to Google and Microsoft in terms of market share over the next four years, with HP’s WebOS a long way behind. That market, according to Gartner, will see sales of 468m units in 2011, nearly 60% more than in 2010, rising to 1.1bn units in 2015.

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Apple announces WWDC 2011 date

by Kenny Hemphill on 28 March 2011 in News

This year’s Worldwide Developers Conference will be held in San Francisco’s Moscone Center from June 6-10, Apple has announced.

The company said it would ‘unveil the future of iOS and Mac OS’ at the event.

“At this year’s conference we are going to unveil the future of iOS and Mac OS,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “If you are an iOS or Mac OS X software developer, this is the event that you do not want to miss.”

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Adobe updates Photoshop Express with Camera Pack in-app purchase

by Kenny Hemphill on 16 March 2011 in News
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Adobe has released version 2 of its iOS application, Photoshop Express. The new version features an in-app purchase option called Camera Pack.

Camera Pack has three features; Reduce Noise, Self Timer, and Auto Review. The sensor on the iPhone is notoriously prone to noise and the Reduce Noise feature is designed to combat that by smoothing images.

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Apple issues iOS 4.3 update with Personal Hotspot and Home Sharing

by Kenny Hemphill on 10 March 2011 in News
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Apple has released the latest version of iOS for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. It includes the ability to use an iPhone 4 as a wifi access point for devices which don’t have a 3G connection. In addition, iTunes Home Sharing allows an iTunes library stored on a Mac or TV to be accessed on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch on the same wireless network.

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