Posts Tagged by WWDC
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| June 17, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
It’s the Apple edition of TSR on tech, with the WWDC keynote on Monday dominating the news cycle for the rest of the week. There were other goings-on, which we have duly reported on: cuts at Nokia, a rejected appeal for Assange, some important security updates; but all eyes were on San Francisco for Apple’s announcements about hardware updates, the new MacBook Pro with a Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion, and iOS 6. We’ve got the details on all of the aforementioned and more – just read on! Business Nokia, formerly the world’s largest mobile phone maker, has announced layoffs of up to 10,000 employees. The company will also close a factory in Finland and research facilities in Germany and… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| June 3, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
For once it has been a generally positive week in tech, with good news on ACTA (i.e. bad news for ACTA) and an outcome to the Google-Oracle Java suit that will have developers everywhere cheering. There are also some nice announcements from Facebook, a slight increase in momentum for Do Not Track, exciting event announcements from Apple and Google, and several product launches and releases. The news might not be so good if you’ve invested in Facebook or RIM, or if your name is Julian Assange, but at least you’re not a mayor who has just been arrested by the FBI. Business Facebook’s foray into the public market is looking less and less like the grand success Mark Zuckerberg &… more
Apple announces Lion, iOS 5, iCloud at WWDC
| June 7, 2011 | Posted by Elliot Davies under technology |
On Monday morning Apple held the opening keynote for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, where Steve Jobs and other executives announced more details about Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5, and introduced Apple’s new cloud-storage and syncing service, iCloud. Lion After an introduction by Jobs, Phil Schiller took the stage first to highlight some of the 250 new features in Lion, which will be the eighth iteration of Mac OS X and which clearly represents the company’s move towards combining their desktop and mobile operating systems as they follow the trend Microsoft set last week at D9. According to figures given by Apple, Mac sales have now outpaced the PC market for 5 years and 73% of these sales… more
What can we expect from WWDC?
| June 1, 2011 | Posted by Elliot Davies under technology |
The Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC, is Apple’s annual event for talking to developers and showcasing their latest software developments. As usual the company’s shroud of secrecy has been lifted only at the very last moment, but with just one week to go we finally have a press release with some information about what to expect; until now, nobody even knew what time the conference would begin. The statement, released May 31st, confirms that WWDC will focus on three main topics: Lion, the eighth version of Mac OS X; iOS 5, the upcoming version of Apple’s mobile operating system; and a mysterious, hitherto unconfirmed service known only as iCloud. There will also be an opening keynote presented by CEO Steve… more
