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 [...]

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 [...]

Apple reveals a developers’ preview of the next version of its OS X operating system, and it’s loaded with some of the features found in the company’s popular iPhone, iPad and iPod.Parts of the OS X refresh, called “Mountain Lion” and expected to be released in late summer.A new messaging app  will replace iChat . [...]

Vimeo (Free – iOS, Android) Vimeo has always been second fiddle to YouTube. Yet, Vimeo does attract a more professional grade of videographer and often the contents of Vimeo are much more polished than the much uploaded to YouTube from millions of would-be Internet stars. Vimeo finally has a new app for iOS and Android [...]

Fights are going on between Apple and Samsung for the title of the largest smartphone’s maker, the iPhone maker has apparently reclaimed the title of the world’s largest smartphone vendor for the fourth quarter of 2011. That’s according to research firm Strategy Analytics, which points out that Apple shipped 37 million iPhones during the quarter [...]

Apple’s iPhone 4S is incredibly popular with consumers, so much so that it’s eating heavily into Android’s market share among those who’ve purchased smartphones within the past three months. Apple’s market share among recent smartphone buyers in the U.S. rose from 25.1 percent in October to 44.5 percent in December, while Android’s fell from 61.6 [...]

Yestersay I captured video of a Fujitsu handset running on the Nvidia Tegra 3 processor. From the looks of it, this phone’s performance will rival that of the Asus Transformer Prime tablet. Fujitsu doesn’t target the U.S. market. However, Sascha’s video gives us an idea of what to expect from the Mobile World Congress show [...]

Visa is making its move in the mobile payments space. While MasterCard has heavily featured its near field communications capabilities and exclusive partnership with the Google Wallet, Visa has also been working to set up mobile payments strategy. Visa announced today that its payWave NFC mobile wallet application has been certified for a variety of [...]

During the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, apple users downloaded more than 1 billion apps for the first time ever in a week-long period. Across iOS and Android, over 1.2 billion apps were downloaded. That was a 60% increase over early December. The holiday season typically sees a surge in mobile application downloads, [...]