Now that we've settled into Mountain Lion, the iPhone 5, and iOS 6, it's time we devoted several minutes to a feature that's common to all of them--iCloud syncing and backup. I'm joined in that devotion by staff writer Lex Friedman who ...
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Apple's OS X Mountain Lion now powers more than 10% of all Macs, and may be on the way to outdoing its predecessor, Lion, in adoption speed, an online advertising network said today. Chitika, which mines its ad impression data for trends ...
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More than 3 million copies of OS X Mountain Lion have been downloaded since its debut last week, Apple said today. "Downloads of Mountain Lion have exceeded three million in four days, making it the most successful OS X release in Apple's ...
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Apple's refusal to put into writing its operating system support policy leaves Snow Leopard users wondering whether their copy of OS X has been retired, security experts said today. The question "Is Snow Leopard retired?" went legitimate ...
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cc today announced that its mobile device management (MDM) tool now supports the new OS X Mountain Lion operating system for Macs, released on Wednesday. The company cited fast adoption of Macs in business as the reason it moved out of its ...
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Apple is investigating reports of shorter battery life on Mac laptops that customers have upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion, according to the company's support forum. Owners of MacBooks, MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs began reporting problems ...
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Apple on Tuesday reported revenue for the quarter just ended that was lower than analysts had expected, despite a big jump in iPad sales. At the same time, as if to cushion the blow, Apple said its new Mountain Lion OS will ship on ...
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Apple on Tuesday announced record sales of its iPad tablet, but missed Wall Street's consensus on total revenue. During an earnings call with analysts and reporters, Apple said it had sold 17 million iPads, an increase of 84% over the ...
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New Mac owners took their frustration with Apple onto Twitter today as they groused that they have not received redemption codes for the free copy of OS X Mountain Lion they were promised. "36 hours later still no redemption code for ...
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When Apple switched to Intel processors, Windows switchers as well as Mac users who needed to run the occasional Windows app rejoiced. That's because the chip switch was soon followed by the release of virtualization software that would ...
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Managing financial information is, by far, my least favorite part of being in business for myself. Dont get me wrong, I like the money, but time tracking, invoicing, bill collection, monthly statements, and expensesall a necessary part of ...
Java 6 will be retired from security support in less than two months, and users and businesses should prepare now for its demise, experts said today. Oracle will publicly patch Java 6 for the last time on Feb. 19, 2013. After that ...
Apple will report a fall-off in iPhone sales next week, although not as dramatic as some believe, but the iPad will make up the difference, with units sales 72% above last year's, a financial analyst today. And Mac sales will prove to be ...
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WinMagic Inc., the innovator in data security and encryption solutions, today announced it had been awarded a multi-country contract with one of the Big Four global Tax, Advisory and Audit firms housing over 140,000 employees globally. ...
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Mozilla will drop support for Apple's OS X 10.5, or Leopard, after it ships Firefox 16 in October, according to company developers. "We are not planning to support Mac OS X 10.5 with Firefox 17," said Josh Aas, who works on the Firefox ...