Acer iCloud Alternative Promotion Blatantly Borrows Apple Images [CES 2012]
09/01/2012 |
Image Courtesy: AppleInsider.com
All that was missing was Steve Jobs. That’s how close Acer’s promotion of its new AcerCloud service was to Apple’s iCloud. Although imitation is flattering, some observers charged Acer of a ‘blatant ripoff’ of iCloud – down to even the promotion images used by netbook kingpin. To illustrate its “PicStream” service, which sounds very much like Apple’s Photo Stream, Acer uses the image of a cloud radiating...
Photo Stream helping user track down her stolen iPhone
A stolen iPhone is helping its owner close the net on the thief thanks to Apple's iCloud Photo Stream. We assume that Find My iPhone was either not enabled, or was disabled by the thief, but it seems the thief was unaware that Photo Stream was running and cataloging every photograph Katy McCaffr...
Apple resetting developer iTunes Match iCloud libraries on September 26
Apple has announced that it will reset developers iTunes Match iCloud Libraries on Monday September 26. This is a similar to lasts week’s announcement, where we saw Apple resetting developer's iOS 5 iCloud backups. To continue to improve the overall quality and reliability of iTunes Match,...
Steve Jobs planned ahead - 4 years of future products?
Even when death must have looked certain and his time on this earth was quickly coming to an end, visionary Steve Jobs was hard at work planning the future of Apple. For more than a year, Steve worked on future iterations of the iPod, iPad, iPhone and MacBooks, with blueprints in place to fill a ...
Apple tells developers to get their apps ready for iCloud Backup and Restore
Apple has put up a post on their Developer News page tellings devs to start getting their apps ready for iCloud Backup and Restore: iCloud introduces a smarter way for users to back up their info. It’s important to read the new iCloud Data Storage Guidelines to ensure that your app works b...
MobileMe to iCloud phishing scam hitting inboxes
A new phishing email scam is arriving in email inboxes targeted at Apple MobileMe users. The email is supposed to be from Apple and is asking users to upgrade their MobileMe accounts to iCloud. The email has been based on an earlier email that Apple sent to MobileMe users after the WWDC iCloud in...
MobileMe to iCloud phishing email hitting inboxes
A new phishing email is arriving in email inboxes targeted at Apple MobileMe users. The email is supposed to be from Apple and is asking users to upgrade their MobileMe accounts to iCloud. The email has been based on an earlier email that Apple sent to MobileMe users after the WWDC iCloud introdu...
iCloud.com goes live for everyone
Apple has flipped the giant switch in their giant data center and taken the beta tags off iCloud.com, the web front end for their new sync store/push system. Head on over, enter your Apple ID, and free Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Find my iPhone, and iWork documents in the cloud, can be yours.Sure, ...
Apple close to bringing movie streaming to iCloud?
According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, Apple is preparing to deliver movies via its just released iCloud service. According to the report, representatives from Apple have been in meetings with various studios to finalize deals.Representatives of the iPhone and iPad maker have been meetin...
What Apple Got Right and Wrong with iCloud
All the rumors and all the betas are over. Now we’re all using Apple’s iCloud. We’re syncing, we’re backing up, and (to certain extent) we’re streaming. Life is good… kind of.For those of us who remember the debacle that was Apple’s launch of the now-repl...
iOS 5.1 Beta Allowing Developers To Delete Individual Photos from Photo Stream
One of the recent news that will have the developers among our readers especially interested is that Apple has finally rolled out the Apple iOS 5.1 beta 2 version for developers. While there is one good development, the new iOS 5.1 beta 2, also has a few disappointments.The major improvement that...
