Apple is pulling out of the Macworld trade show, the company announced today.
After next month's Macworld event, the iPod maker will no longer participate in the confab that was designed solely to showcase products from Apple and its partners. The company also announced that CEO Steve Jobs will not be giving his annual keynote. Instead, his place will be taken by Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.
The long awaited iPhone 3G unlock is now two weeks away, with the iPhone Dev Team claiming to have completed the work needed to break through Apple’s restrictions, and merely packaging everything up into a “user-friendly applications with the simplicity you see in QuickPwn or BootNeuter”.
A new source claims that Apple's long-overdue revision of the Mac mini will make its appearance at Macworld Expo early next month.
Claiming to have obtained the information from a "corporate" employee of Apple, Wired has allegedly heard that a refresh of the compact, headless desktop is due at the start of the show. The rumor is accompanied by little else besides a speculative wish list based on Apple's recent trends in design and components, such as a unibody design and newer Core 2 Duo processors.
Apple has rejected an iPhone application that supposedly uses off-limits technology just like Google's mobile application--only the developer swears it's not true.
If you've checked out iPhone Alley today, you've probably heard about 10.5.6 breaking pwnage. The update prevents your Mac from recognizing your iPhone or iPod in DFU mode. DFU mode refers to the device firmware update mode that has been used for communicating directly with your unit at a high level. iTunes uses DFU mode for firmware restores among other things.
Apple Inc. today patched 21 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, including seven flaws in Flash that the popular media player's maker, Adobe Systems Inc., fixed more than a month ago.
Security Update 2008-008, which was released today as part of a broader refresh of Mac OS X 10.5, a.k.a. Leopard, and available separately for users of Mac OS X 10.4, known as Tiger, quashes bugs in Apple Type Services, the CoreGraphics rendering component, the kernel, LibSystem and other pieces of the operating system.
With 10,000 applications and 300 million downloads in less than four months, Apple’s iPhone may be the most successful software platform since the IBM personal computer.
But that doesn’t mean all is well in the App Store.
In fact, the business model that nurtured its success now threatens to choke off the programming talent that sustained it.
Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" operating system contains undocumented code designed to render inoperable personal computers that aren't running on Apple-approved hardware, according to the latest claims in the ongoing copyright dispute between Apple and Mac clone maker Psystar.
The TechCrunch post on Joost for the iPhone came across my Twitter feed so I quickly launched iTunes and found the free Joost application. The application started up and looked promising on my WiFi connection, but I found the same issues that TechCrunch did with the application unable to play movies.
Summer is long over and lots hackers and geeks have spent a lot of time again behind their computers. The results are very interesting at times, like the just released first Linux OS port for the Apple iPhone.
Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple's iPhone platform, with support for the iPhone and iPhone 3G as well as the first generation iPod touch.
There are still drivers missing, but Linux boots on the iPhone and you get a Linux shell.
