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A recent survey from Yankee Group Research Inc. reports that 8 in 10 businesses now use Apple Mac computers. This is almost double the amount from only 2 years ago. The Yankee Group surveyed over 700 senior IT managers and C-level executives. Out of those surveyed, 21% reported having over 50 Macs. [...]
Apple releases version 8 of the iPhone SDK
Apple has just released the 8th edition of the iPhone SDK. This version is the beta release 8, and includes XCode 3.1. This version includes everything that is needed to author, test and publish software applications for the iPhone OS. The new iPhone SDK is fully compatible with iPhone OS 2.0 and [...]
Smartphone security and the new iPhone
In this article from eWeek, the author discusses the security issues that IT managers must consider when deploying the new Apple iPhone, Blackberry devices from RIM, or any other smartphones. The article describes one CIO that only allows certain kinds of smartphones on his organization’s network, and even then only allows them to do [...]
App store estimated to be $1.2 billion business by 2009
Information Week has estimated that in by 2009 the Apple app store will be a $1.2 billion business by 2009. Although this is a best case scenario estimate that estimates about 85 million devices, it could be possible that the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPod touch devices could be a billion dollar [...]
New iPhone and iPhone OS to be released July 11
At the WWDC today, Steve Jobs announced the new 3G iPhone today, and along with it a hard release date for the new iPhone OS version 2.0. The new version of the OS had been previously announced, but there was no word on the release date for it. iPhone OS 2.0 will provide [...]