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Office for iPad reportedly due in weeks (Update)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 21st, 2012)

The Daily has gotten its hands on the upcoming iPad version of Microsoft Office, which its sources tell them will soon go through the Apple App Store vetting process. The interface is reportedly similar to OneNote, which we reviewed in December, and also contains technology that's in the Windows ...

Counterfeit Pokemon apps sneak into App Store (Updated)

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 20th, 2012)

Each app in the iOS App Store must go through Apple's notorious approval process. Previously known for its heavy ban hammer, Apple is now earning a reputation for being lax and letting a myriad of cloned and counterfeit apps into the App Store. According to reports from Develop and Ars Technica, ...

New York Times seems to fall from Apple's favor (Updated)

by Mel Martin (Feb 17th, 2012)

Update: Both David Pogue and Andy Ihnatko responded to our request for comment about when they got briefed on Mountain Lion. Pogue did receive an advance briefing and a loaner laptop. See below for details. The New York Times appears to be pouting a bit, according to the Washington Post, because ...

Mountain Lion drops support for several older Mac models (Updated)

by Chris Rawson (Feb 16th, 2012)

Every new version of OS X comes with harsh news for owners of older Macs: "Your Mac is too old. You're stuck with your current OS. Forever." For Mac OS X Leopard in 2007, anyone who owned a Mac with a processor slower than 867 MHz was stuck with Tiger. In 2009, Snow Leopard made the biggest (and ...

Messages to replace iChat in OS X Mountain Lion, public beta available today (Updated)

by Dave Caolo (Feb 16th, 2012)

Apple on Thursday released a public beta of Messages, its next-generation messaging app for the Mac that will be a part of Mac OS X Mountain Lion. It lets you send and receive iMessages, just like iOS devices running iOS 5. Now you can "text" chat via iMessage with the iPhones, iPads and iPod ...

Tim Cook speaks on labor, cash and culture during Goldman Sachs conference (Update)

by Chris Rawson (Feb 14th, 2012)

Tim Cook presented remarks at a Goldman Sachs Technology Conference on February 14, and it turned out to be a quite lively affair. Cook opened up on a diverse array of topics ranging from Apple's commitment to improving working conditions at its suppliers all the way to what sounded to us like ...

Open source media player VLC to get complete rewrite and Blu-ray playback

by Mel Martin (Feb 13th, 2012)

VideoLan says it will soon release a major 2.0 release of its open source VLC media player, which will contain many new features of interest to OS X users. The new VLC will support Blu-ray playback, if you have the proper hardware, a full screen mode in Lion, and a new interface that looks similar ...

Britain's ITV warns Apple again not to use "iTV" (Updated)

by Dave Caolo (Feb 13th, 2012)

Back in August of 2010, UK commercial television network ITV balked at rumors that Apple would rebrand the Apple TV as iTV, threatening legal action. Years later, the network is at it again, this time addressing rumors that Apple's "hobby" is due for a refresh and potential re-branding. Apple has ...

Ripoff of upcoming Clear app appears in App Store (Updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 12th, 2012)

Days before the launch of Realmac Software's Clear to-do manager, developer Reejo Samuel, who is not on the Real Mac team, has ripped off the software and released it on the App Store. Clear has gotten quite a bit of buzz, and we got a sneak peek at it during Macworld | iWorld 2012. With the ...

Snow Leopard security update revised to fix Rosetta issues

by Michael Rose (Feb 4th, 2012)

As noted yesterday, many of the users who updated their OS X 10.6 systems with Apple's most recent security patches found themselves unable to run PowerPC legacy apps via the Rosetta compatibility layer. Today a new version of that update (Security Update 2012-001 v1.1) is now available, and it ...

Avid Studio takes iPad video editing to the next level (Updated)

by Mel Martin (Feb 2nd, 2012)

Updated to clarify that Avid Media Composer is cross-platform. Avid Studio on the desktop is a Windows-only product. Take that, Apple! Avid has just released an iPad iMovie competitor called Avid Studio. The US$4.99 app is a scaled-down version of Avid's pro video editing tools. Avid Studio ...

Siri VC Morgenthaler weighs in on iPhone 4S bandwidth badmouthing (Updated)

by Michael Rose (Jan 30th, 2012)

Back in early January, wireless optimization firm Arieso released a report on the bandwidth usage profiles of various smartphones and other devices. It noted a surge in download and upload usage for the iPhone 4S, moving the new phone ahead of the iPhone 4 and various Android devices to take over ...

Siri probably isn't the bandwidth hog the WaPo warned you about

by Mel Martin (Jan 27th, 2012)

Update: Former Siri director responds to the Washington Post story. Reuters was the original source of the error around Siri bandwidth usage. "How Siri is ruining your cellphone service." That's the searing headline from the Washington Post in an article by Paul Farhi. Farhi claims that "Siri's ...

Apple Store is down (Update: Back up with Valentine's Day gift guide)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 27th, 2012)

The yellow sticky note of doom has appeared, and the Apple Store is currently down. What sort of updates will this bring? Since it's early Friday on the East Coast, most likely maintenance. But with Macworld, it could be anything. We'll let you know of any changes once it's back up! Update: The ...

iBooks Author makes its debut today for creating ebooks (Updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 19th, 2012)

Apple has announced the free iBooks Author, an OS X application for creating any type of ebook. As with Pages, a number of templates are available for authors to use to get started with making a book. With a tap, they can be filled with stock text. Elements such as audio and video can be ...