Mac OS

Mac App Store Downloads Break the 100 Million Mark

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 12, 2011 at 5:53 am PT

So many people said it wouldn’t work, and yet it appears that it has.

Say, When Did Apple Become an Enterprise Company?

Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 19, 2011 at 6:45 am PT

When Tim Cook rattles off a list of iPhone- and iPad-using companies, it says a lot about how far Apple has come without having a formal enterprise strategy.

Earnings Preview: That’s One Big, Powerful Apple

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on October 18, 2011 at 5:56 am PT

With its latest quarterly earnings report, Apple stands ready to demonstrate once again why it’s the strongest and most valuable company in the world.

Apple’s Lion and Microsoft’s Windows 8 Both Show Mobile’s Influence

Ina Fried in Mobile on June 6, 2011 at 3:12 pm PT

With their next computer operating systems, both Microsoft and Apple are trying to capture the best of mobile operating systems and bring it to desktops and laptops. However, the two have honed in on different aspects of what makes a mobile OS great.

Seven Questions for Rajen Sheth, Who Wants To Put Chrome OS on Your Desktop

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 25, 2011 at 6:50 am PT

The man who challenged Microsoft Office with Google Apps now has his sights set on a bigger and even more impossible-seeming goal: Challenging Windows for dominance of the enterprise desktop.

No iPhone at WWDC 2011

John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 28, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

If you’d been hoping to see some new hardware at Apple’s 2011 Worldwide Developers Conference, you might want to recalibrate your expectations. The company announced dates for the event this morning-–Monday, June 6 through Friday, June 10–-and the design and wording of the announcement all suggest this year’s WWDC is largely focused on software, not hardware.

IOS Devices Generate 2 Percent of Global Web Traffic

John Paczkowski in News on February 2, 2011 at 6:15 am PT

A small, but noteworthy, milestone for iOS. According to the latest worldwide browser market-share survey by Net Applications, Apple’s mobile operating system now accounts for more than 2.06 percent of all Web browsing traffic.

Cisco Security Survey Finds Windows Vulnerabilities And Spam Decreasing

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 20, 2011 at 6:40 am PT

Still no rest for the weary computer security professional. Smartphones and tablets are coming to the office and creating new opportunities for trouble.

News Byte

The Outlook for Java on the Mac Perks Up

Voices in News on November 12, 2010 at 11:26 am PT

The future of Java development for the Mac OS, which was starting to look a little dicey recently, firmed up today with a new deal between Apple and Oracle. Under the agreement, Apple, which has always handled in-house development of the necessary virtual machine software for Java to run on Macs, will now turn those duties over to Oracle, starting with Java Standard Edition 7, and will contribute its Java work to OpenJDK, the open-source project under which Java is developed.

Everything You Need to Know About the iPhone 4

John Paczkowski in Mobile on June 7, 2010 at 9:30 am PT

Steve Jobs’s newest iPhone got unwrapped before he was ready, but that didn’t stop him from putting on a big show today. An overworked Wi-Fi system nearly did put a halt to the whole thing, though. At least he can’t blame AT&T for this one.