Based on new sales figures from NPD Market Research, Apple is expected to slightly exceed Wall Street's consensus on Mac sales for the September quarter.
In a new note to investors, Gene Munster, senior research analyst with PiperJaffray, said that NPD data for the July and August shows Mac sales up 7 percent year-over-year. This as investors are looking for about a 5 percent improvement.
Apple missed a golden opportunity to lock down Snow Leopard when it again failed to fully implement security technology that Microsoft perfected nearly three years ago in Windows Vista, a noted Mac researcher said today.
Dubbed ASLR, for address space layout randomization, the technology randomly assigns data to memory to make it tougher for attackers to determine the location of critical operating system functions, and thus make it harder for them to craft reliable exploits.
The anti-phishing feature for the iPhone OS 3.1 isn't all it's cracked up to be, according to security researchers.
For whatever reason, some researchers have found, phishing sites blocked by the desktop version of Apple Safari are not consistently blocked by the mobile version. Since Apple released the iPhone OS 3.1 upgrade on Sept. 8, testers have found that the performance of the anti-phishing feature has been spotty.
Last week's iPod event in San Francisco left many Apple watchers wondering why the iPod touch didn't get a video camera, while the less sophisticated iPod nano did. After all, the jack-of-all-trades touch, with its iPhone-like feature set, seemed a natural for a camera.
If you have a jailbroken iPhone and were wondering if you should update to 3.1 via iTunes, do yourself a favor and just wait a few more days. As with every other major iPhone software update, 3.1 adds a slew of cool new features and bug fixes, as well as breaks the current jailbreak exploit. Nothing shocking here, as this cat-and-mouse game has been going on between Apple and the Dev-Team hackers since 1.1.1.
Despite being a unique, key marketing feature of Snow Leopard, Apple has decided to open the code behind Grand Central Dispatch under the liberal Apache 2.0 license.
Snow Leopard's new Grand Central Dispatch feature, which serves as a system-wide mechanism for managing parallel task execution across multiple processor cores for developers, involves multiple components in the operating system.
Amid the flurry of announcements Apple made Wednesday, the company quietly released the latest version of its iPhone operating system. And as is often the case with iPhone updates, Steve Jobs giveth some new features and Steve Jobs taketh away others.
Less than two weeks after it rolled out Snow Leopard, Apple released the first update to its new OS. Included in the OS X 10.6.1 update are a number of stability and compatibility improvements as well as patches for security issues, among them including the more recent version of the Flash plug-in for Safari.
Yesterday marked the unveiling of the new iPod line and everything went pretty much as expected. The only thing that could be considered a surprise was that only the tiny new iPod nano got a camera -- many believed that the touch would get a camera as well.
Apple has unveiled the newest version of its iTunes media player tool.
Chief executive Steve Jobs said in a special event in San Francisco on Wednesday that iTunes 9 would put a greater emphasis on Apple's Genius analysis tool. Jobs outlined a new Genius Mix feature which analyzes a user's library and constructs up to twelve "channel" lists which continuously play similar songs from the library.
