A story in The New York Times that says a “loophole” in Apple’s mobile software allows developers of iOS apps to upload a user’s photo library without specific permission to do so. When a user grants permission to a downloaded app that uses device’s current location, that doesn’t give them permission to access just location, [...]

Cloud storage service Dropbox has added automatic photo and video uploads to its popular Android app, and this awesome new feature is on its way to iOS as well.Android has been getting a lot of love this week from cloud storage providers, with Box just releasing a new version of its Android app and giving [...]

The Microsoft team has created a new logo for its upcoming Windows 8 operating system,but the responce isn’t positive.This is Microsoft’s Gap moment, which is that uncomfortable situation in which a company chooses a new logo that takes away from its history and chooses blandness over anything striking. Windows 8 will be one the most [...]

The Mozilla Foundation will begin accepting developer submissions for its own app market at the Mobile World Congress, which will be held in Barcelona next week.The Mozilla Marketplace will let developers distribute and monetize their apps. It will also be the sole repository for cross-platform apps and Firefox extensions. Further, it will include services such [...]

OnLive put Windows on the iPad and now the free-thinking San Francisco startup has gone so far as to put Adobe Flash on Apple’s holy tablet.The company unveiled a new version of OnLive Desktop — an iPad application that lets users access a virtual Windows desktop and Windows applications housed on servers in the proverbial [...]

Apple is building “the nation’s largest end-user-owned, onsite solar array” at its Maiden, North Carolina, data center, the company says in an environmental report on the project that provides new details on the facility. The Maiden facility is home to the company’s iCloud service, which just passed 100 million users. The 100-acre, 20-megawatt facility will [...]

Here’s the latest punch in the ongoing mobile-device patent brawl: Apple has filed an official complaint with the European Commission against Motorola Mobility for violating agreements to fairly license standards-essential patents. The action comes just days after the U.S. and E.U. approved Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. Motorola revealed the complaint Friday [...]

This weekend, fans and mourners of the late Whitney Houston received a shock when they decided to purchase her albums on iTunes. The prices of Houston’s records seemingly shot up overnight, causing some to point fingers at Apple for taking advantage of her untimely death.However, Apple wasn’t responsible for the price hike, which boosted Houston’s [...]

Apple’s latest OS X update- Mountain Lion, adds a slate of new features, nearly all derived from iOS 5.But Siri, Apple’s voice-controlled virtual assistant, does not make the migration from mobile to desktop. Technically Siri isn’t a part of iOS 5. It’s the game-changing feature of the iPhone 4S, and Apple has remained mum on [...]

The concept of mobile connectivity in today’s multi-device world is changing,it means more than just connecting our laptop computers to WiFi or 3G carrier networks wherever we go. Today people work on more than one computer. Increasingly, workers and consumers alike rely on a growing collection of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs.Sending [...]