Tag: apple
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New Release for Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS
Today I just pushed a new version of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS to github (tagged v1.3.0). These changes include new versions for the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS, the Configuration Utility and the Cloud Ready Packages. There are a quite a few changes in this update including: New Cloud Ready Packages to support…
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iOS 4 records your location in a hidden file, syncs it to your desktop when connected to iTunes
If you didn’t already think your smartphone knows too much about you, here’s a handy reminder. A duo of UK researchers have uncovered a worrying (and oddly enough, undocumented) feature in iOS 4: it asks your iPhone to record your location constantly, then timestamps that data and records it for posterity. Without alerting you that…
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Imagination: Button-less iPhone 5
This week has been a productive one for iPhone 5 rumors. One of the speculations which caught everyone’s attention was the possibility of Apple equipping iPhone 5 with a 4 inch touch-screen. MacWorld.it folks gave this rumor some thought and have come up with how Apple may go about bringing a 4 inch smartphone –…
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Apple Aims To Take NFC Mainstream; Perhaps The Greatest Trick They’ve Ever Pulled?
Bloomberg has an interesting report tonight, but they have the headline all wrong. Apple Plans Service That Lets IPhone Users Pay With Handsets — is technically correct (assuming the report is true, of course), but it completely downplays the potential ramifications of what Apple is apparently attempting to do. If Apple can nail Near-Field Communication…