Category Archives: Mac News

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Screen Sharing adds drag and drop file transfers

Posted on February 23, 2012 by admin

Remote Screen Sharing is enhanced in this summer’s release of OS X Mountain Lion, adding support for drag and drop file transfers between the viewer and the remote desktop and enhancing support for virtual displays. Continue reading →

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Tim Cook to address Chinese suppliers’ worker issues at Apple shareholder meeting tomorrow

Posted on February 23, 2012 by admin

Apple’s annual shareholder meeting will be held tomorrow at the company’s Cupertino California campus, and activists are gearing up to use the event as a springboard for their “high impact communications programs,” including a continuation of issues related to working conditions among Apple’s Chinese suppliers that Apple addressed at last year’s meeting. Continue reading →

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Regulators to bolster privacy in mobile apps

Posted on February 23, 2012 by admin

Worried about iPhone or Android apps that collect and transmit your data without telling you? Government officials in California say they’re going to do something about it. Continue reading →

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Apple to open data center in Oregon

Posted on February 22, 2012 by admin

Apple has bought a vast sprawl of land in Prineville, Oregon, where it will open a data center, the company said on Wednesday. Continue reading →

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OnLive Launches Premium ‘Desktop Plus’ with Flash and PDF-Enabled Web Browser

Posted on February 22, 2012 by admin

Last month, OnLive introduced its free OnLive Desktop service that allows users to run virtual instances of Microsoft Office apps streamed from OnLive’s remote PCs to the users’ iPads. The company has now added Adobe Acrobat Reader support to the service and introduced a paid “Desktop Plus” subscription service to provide enhanced functionality including priority access and a Flash- and PDF-enabled browser experience. OnLive Desktop Plus is priced at $4.99 per month. The free OnLive Desktop App, currently available on iPad—and coming soon to Android, PC, Mac, TVs and monitors—delivers no-compromise, media-rich, instant-response Windows applications including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint software, and as of today, Adobe Reader for PDFs, along with 2GB of cloud storage. OnLive Desktop Plus, available for $4.99/month at www.desktop.onlive.com, provides all OnLive Desktop Standard features plus OnLive’s gigabit-speed accelerated browsing experience with full Flash player capability. With OnLive Desktop Plus, the iPad not only becomes 100% Flash compatible, it becomes the world’s fastest mobile Flash player. As with the original OnLive Desktop service, there is some lag in responding to touch input and visual artifacts when moving quickly through documents or web pages. The lag made it somewhat difficult to work with interactive Flash-based content such as games in our testing, but the service does allow for decent viewing of Flash video content on the web. While that slight lag is a function of the time needed for data to transfer between OnLive’s servers and the user’s iPad, OnLive’s PCs themselves are connected to the Internet with gigabit connections, making for very fast loading of content and data transfers, which is then optimized for the iPad’s display and passed along to the user. OnLive is planning yet another tier of service, a $9.99/month “Pro” level that will offer additional PC applications for use from the iPad and an upgrade from to 50 GB of storage, up from 2 GB on the regular and Plus levels. Continue reading →

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Former factory workers urge public to sign Apple labor petition

Posted on February 22, 2012 by admin

Apple’s trouble with factory assets in China has quickly become a conflagration, and two former Wintek employees stoked the flames on Wednesday when they offered their support of an online petition that will be delivered to Apple Stores across the nation. Continue reading →

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Apple sued by patent holding company over ‘multimedia voicemail’

Posted on February 22, 2012 by admin

So-called patent troll Brandywine Communications Technologies filed a complaint on Tuesday against Apple’s iPhone and iPad, claiming that the devices infringe on certain ‘multimedia voicemail’ patents. Continue reading →

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China Telecom expected to sell 3-5 million iPhones, Mountain Lion to reinforce iPhone "halo"

Posted on February 22, 2012 by admin

Apple’s newest partner in China is expected to sell 3-5 million iPhones this year, boosting Apple’s momentum during the summer while the release of OS X Mountain Lion will reinforce the iPhone’s halo effect over Mac sales, writes analyst Ben Reitzes of Barclays Capital. Continue reading →

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Apple Begins Hiring for First Swedish Retail Store [Mac Blog]

Posted on February 22, 2012 by admin

Even as Apple is preparing to open its first Dutch retail store in Amsterdam on March 3, the company is moving closer to expanding its international reach even further as it has updated its Swedish jobs site with new postings for the complete range of retail positions. We noted last November that Apple had filed a business registration certificate for Apple Retail Sweden, offering support to rumors that Apple was looking to open a retail store in Stockholm. While the new listings do not specify Stockholm as the location for the forthcoming store, Stockholm’s metropolitan area is easily the largest in Sweden and with previous rumors having cited Stockholm as the focus of Apple’s interest, it seems likely that this is the intended market. Continue reading →

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Factory workers claim Foxconn hid under-age employees before FLA inspection

Posted on February 22, 2012 by admin

Workers at Apple partner Foxconn have alleged that their employer transferred under-age employees to other departments or did not schedule them to work in order to avoid discovery during recent inspections by the Fair Labor Association, according to one non-governmental organization. Continue reading →

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