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Daily Update for March 21, 2013

by Steven Sande (Mar 21st, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

iCloud, Dropbox, Amazon top US cloud services

by Dave Caolo (Mar 21st, 2013)

According to a study recently published by Strategy Analytics, Apple's iCloud and iTunes Match are tops among US consumer cloud services. The study polled 2,300 Americans and found, among other things, that 27 percent of respondents have used iCloud and/or iTunes Match. Further, 17 percent have ...

Watch a vintage Mac 512K talk to an iMac via Siri

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 11th, 2013)

Niles Mitchell has a variety of Apple devices, including an iPhone with Siri, an iMac and a vintage Mac 512K. Using a combination of the old Speak program, AppleScript and iCloud Notes, Mitchell was able to send files from his iMac to his Mac 512K via Siri. It's a clever mix of old and new ...

Dropbox CEO criticizes iCloud's "bizarre limitations"

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 4th, 2013)

Speaking at Mobile World Congress last week, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston said users should be wary of using cloud storage solutions that are provided by a single manufacturer of a smartphone. His statements were aimed at the concern that users could become locked into a device because that ...

Overzealous spam filter causes never-delivered iCloud emails

by Randy Nelson (Mar 1st, 2013)

Back in November, InfoWorld's Robert Cringely told the story of a Hollywood screenwriter's travails involving his iCloud email account. It appeared that iCloud was unable, or unwilling, to deliver messages with a PDF attachment containing the words "barely legal teen." Granted, that's not an ...

Daily iPhone App: Horizon puts a weather report in a calendar app

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2013)

Horizon is an interesting little app that comes from a very simple idea: To combine your weather report and your calendar in one place. That may not sound like a big innovation, but it's actually not a bad one. Horizon's simple and straightforward design (put together by a young developer named ...

iTunes in the Cloud for movies hits 11 new European countries

by Michael Grothaus (Feb 27th, 2013)

Apple has rolled out movie support for iTunes in the Cloud for 11 new European markets, notes TNW. Customers in Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden can now download past and future movie purchases from iCloud whenever they ...

Contact sync problems, Contacts Cleaner and The Nuclear Option

by TJ Luoma (Feb 19th, 2013)

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who have no problems with iCloud sync, and people who use iCloud sync. Well, OK, maybe that's an exaggeration, but I have had plenty of problems with iCloud sync well back into the MobileMe days. Most of the problems relate to syncing contact ...

Mac 101: dealing with iCloud email spam

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 31st, 2013)

Dealing with an email inbox filled with spam can be a tedious process. Some spam emails, like those saying you have an inheritance overseas, are easy to spot, while others are cleverly crafted to appear legitimate. If you use an iCloud email account, here are some tips to help you curb your ...

Runmeter takes to the cloud with version 9, boasts one million paid users

by Mike Schramm (Jan 24th, 2013)

Runmeter is my personal favorite running app -- it's a great, in-depth way to track your runs, or any other cardio exercise you might do. Today, the company behind it, Abvio, announced Runmeter version 9, which will add both iPad support and support for iCloud, meaning that user data will now ...

Daily Update for January 24, 2013

by Steven Sande (Jan 24th, 2013)

Apple's iCloud user base breaks 250 million

by Steven Sande (Jan 24th, 2013)

During yesterday's Q1 2013 earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook mentioned several times that the iCloud storage service now has more than 250 million users. That's not particularly surprising, since signing up for a free iCloud account is part of the setup process when you purchase any new Apple ...

Apple wins Emmy for technology, engineering

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 11th, 2013)

Apple was a prominent part of CES even though it didn't have a physical presence at the trade show. Not only were there a large number of iOS and OS X vendors on the show floor, Apple was also awarded a Technology & Engineering Emmy for its iCloud service. As reported by The Loop, the Emmy ...

Apple launches more detailed online services status page

by Randy Nelson (Dec 13th, 2012)

In the wake of some high-profile outages affecting its iCloud, iMessage and other online services, Apple has rolled out a new design for its system status web page. The new page offers a more detailed report on the current health of 32 different resources, broken down by Services, Stores and ...

The Wall Street Journal profiles Eddy Cue

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 29th, 2012)

With the recent shakeup of Apple's executive leadership, all eyes are now on Eddy Cue, vice president of Internet Software and Services. Cue was known for negotiating deals with media moguls that brought new content into iTunes, but now the 48-year-old executive has taken on the high-profile ...