Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

Apple’s odd choice to favor VGA over HDMI inside iPhone 4 leaves many scratching their heads. We’ll try to explain what happened, and why. One announcement that Apple didn’t make at WWDC, was that iPhone 4 was compatible with the VGA adapter that Apple currently sells for iPad. With a maximum resolution of 1024×768, you [...]

Following the WWDC keynote, Apple released Safari 5, claiming once again the title of fastest web browser. The company’s own benchmarks demonstrate performance gains over Google Chrome, which shares use of the WebKit HTML5 engine. More surprisingly however, Apple issued a security update for the latest Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) branch of Safari. Version [...]

Welcome to TechNews.biz’s live coverage of Apple’s 2010 Worldwide Developers Conference. 11:55 And, that’s a wrap. Share your thoughts in the comments! 11:54 Steve is giving thanks to all the key team members and people that made iPhone 4 and iOS 4. 11:50 Yes, there is a Dock as expected, but please disregard what you [...]

Adobe has updated their “Gala” preview Flash Player release for Mac. The updated version of Adobe Flash is a superset of their ongoing Flash 10.1 Preview Release cycle. Specifically, it adds support for Apple’s new hardware acceleration for non-QuickTime video codecs. This support was added to the operating system, apparently, specifically for Adobe to tap [...]

Google today took the beta label off of Chrome for Mac. The popular WebKit-based browser has been in final form for Windows since version 5.0, however, the company encourages users to try out newer, beta builds of the version 5.0 branch. The download is free, and Google continues to offer a beta of 5.0 for [...]

We take a look at NewerTech’s 11 Piece Portable Tool Kit. NewerTech says it has all the tools you need to work on iPhone, iPod, and Mac. Does it? We’ll tell you after the break.

In the ongoing legal saga between Nokia and Apple, Nokia has fired the latest shot by filing suit against the manufacturer in Wisconsin Federal district court over five patents that the Finnish giant is alleging are being infringed with the iPhone and iPad 3G. The patents in question relate to technologies for enhanced speech and [...]

Not long after the launch of the Apple iPad 3G, AT&T is now offering international data plans for roaming with the device. AT&T’s data plans begin at 20MB of data access for $24.99 and end at 200MB of access for $199.99, identical to its international data plans for phones.

According to a report filed in the New York Post citing unamed sources, Apple is set to face a federal inquiry from either the Department of Justice or the Federal Trade Commission, dependent on inter-agency negotiations regarding Apple’s recent moves to ban Adobe’s iPhone Flash-based iPhone app compiler in its latest developer terms of service. [...]

Here are Apple’s battery warranty standards, as clear as Apple Media Relations has confirmed to date. These are based on prior media reports, sources, as well as Apple’s battery information web pages. Apple rates that all MacBooks with built-in batteries should last 1,000 charge cycles or 5 years (whichever comes first). However, that is not [...]