Aside from all the iCloud and iOS news from WWDC, the 2011 Apple Design Award winners have also been announced at the event. The winners were selected in four categories – iPhone, iPad, Student and Mac. And here they are: iPhone Cut the Rope by chillingo Golfscape GPS Rangefinder by Shotzoom Infinity Blade by Chair…
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How Apple iOS 5.0 copies the competition
The Apple team just unveiled iOS 5.0 at WWDC 2011 and it features more than 200 new features for end users. If you’re familiar with the other operating systems, you’ll know where Apple could have got some of its inspiration. One of the largest changes is that the Push Notification System is being revamped and…
Apple’s ‘One More Thing’ is iTunes Match
Apple’s keynote was both impressive and disappointing at the same time. Apple discovered the cloud and introduced its BBM clone, but we were still waiting for streaming iTunes. Well, that didn’t happen but we did get iTunes Match, which is Apple’s answer to Amazon’s and Google’s offerings. The main difference between iTunes Match and its…
Did Apple step on its devs with iOS 5.0? Does it matter?
Hopefully you were watching out live blog of the WWDC 2011 keynote where Steve Jobs unveiled new features of iOS 5.0, OS X Lion and the new iCloud service but not every developer was excited. Apple made its most aggressive move to step on some of its third-party developers by baking in new features but…
Apple announces BBM clone called iMessage, coming in iOS 5
Yet another announcement out of WWDC today was a new service from Apple called iMessage, that is pretty much identical to RIM’s BlackBerry Messenger client. iMessage will let you send and receive text messages, photos, and contacts from other iOS users. Group messaging and read/unread/typing notifications (which are staples of BBM) can also be found…
Apple iCloud syncs apps, media, settings across devices
Today at the Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced a new service called iCloud that works across all of their products, including iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers. Pictures, music, everything is paired up across all devices. Take a snap with your iPhone, and it’s automatically pushed out to your Mac. iCloud will hold onto your last…
What is Apple hiding underneath these banners?
At WWDC 2011 this morning, we spotted these large banners covered with a black shroud. We know the event is going to cover Lion, iOS 5 and Apple’s new iCloud service, so what else could it be? There has been no mention of a new iPhone scheduled for this event, and the past few months…
Live from WWDC 2011 keynote: Steve Jobs intros iOS 5.0, iCloud and more
[Update] The live blog is over and it was wild with new features shown off of Lion, iOS 5.0 and iCloud. You can view the entire keynote on Apple’s site. We’re just a few minutes away from the opening WWDC 2011 keynote and Steve Jobs is set to show off iOS 5.0, iCloud and more.…
iOS 5 screenshot shows new iPhone home screen Twitter notifications?
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference is kicking off today, where they’ll be unveiling the next version of the iPhone and iPad’s operating system. The features of iOS 5 haven’t been disclosed, but a music streaming and storage service called iCloud seems like a foregone conclusion, and there has been an awful lot of talk about deep,…
WWDC is today and we’ll be live-blogging the event
Apple’s WWDC event is next week, and we’re expecting to see tons of big things coming out of Cupertino. What sorts of things, you ask? Well, for starters we’re seeing a big push into the cloud, or Internet-based storage and services. Apple will be calling its services iCloud – pretty original, right? We’re hearing things…