Apple

  • The must-have iPad office apps, round 9.5

    Google’s newly completed Apps suite can’t beat Apple’s improved iWork or Microsoft Office The on-the-go business app toolkit for the iPad Of the tens of thousands of apps available for the iPad, only a relative few are must-have tools for business use. In the last year, the landscape for iPad […]

  • 4 security tips for Apple Pay users

    A payments industry expert shares four tips to help you get safely and security started with Apple’s new contactless payment system, Apple Pay. Many security experts agree that Apple Pay and contactless payment systems like it are an improvement over traditional credit-card based systems. However, Apple Pay is still new […]

  • First Look: The iPad Mini 3, iPad Air 2 and more

    And hey, Stephen Colbert was there! Apple, uncharacteristically, lost a little PR steam from a leak of some information on its new iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 models a day before the launch event, which took place on Thursday at the company’s Cupertino headquarters. But that doesn’t mean […]

  • Apple to challenge $368M patent infringement verdict

    Latest legal maneuver will open the way to appeal massive award granted to patent-holding firm VirnetX Apple will challenge a November 2012 jury verdict that awarded $368 million in damages to Nevada patent-holding company VirnetX, a filing with U.S. regulators showed. In a Form 10-Q filed this week with the […]

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    Will Windows Phone feel any pain after getting dumped by LG?

    Claiming sales are too weak, did LG make a valid point in dumping Windows Phone, or an excuse to avoid competing with Nokia? How about both? Ahead of a meeting between their CEOs, Korea’s LG Electronics has decided to shun any more Windows Phone products because there have yet to […]

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    IE’s browser share recovers, Chrome down for third straight month

    T Sign of a Microsoft turnaround, or just a calculation change by metrics company? Computerworld – Internet Explorer posted another major gain in share last month, the second in the first quarter of the year, perhaps signaling a turnaround in Microsoft’s fortunes, a Web metrics company said Sunday. Meanwhile, every […]

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    First look at Firefox 11 browser

    No earth-shaking changes, but Mozilla’s minor Firefox upgrades could add up Firefox 11 packs multiple new features The latest incarnation of Mozilla’s Firefox browser introduces a host of evolutionary upgrades, though it’s relatively light on truly groundbreaking improvements. Nevertheless, there are some key features in Firefox 11 that could help […]

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    4 Varying Kinds Of Mobile Computer Gadgets

    Varying types of portable computer gadgets include the following: smartphones, laptop computers, netbook computers, and tablet PCs. Technology has provided us with an array of choices in mobile computer gadgets. These devices may have computer operations that are similar to each other, but they also have numerous other aspects that […]

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    Windows Phone 7 jailbreak app shows that Microsoft, not Apple, is the friend of openness

    Apple has managed through the years to portray itself as the friend of freedom and openness, while depicting Microsoft as the exact opposite. But the recent decision by Microsoft to approve the use of a jailbreak app for Windows Phone 7 shows that Microsoft embraces freedom far more than does […]

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    Minuscule Mobile Presence Puts IE Market Share Below 50 Percent

    If you look at the numbers a certain way, it appears that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser has fallen to below 50 percent of the overall browser market, according to figures from Net Applications. That figure, however, takes into account mobile market share, and mobile is area in which Microsoft could […]