Type of Article: MacTech Blog

iOS security issue giving Apple a big, black eye

Posted by | Apr 21, 2011 | , |

Apple once blasted Big Brother. Now some folks think it’s becoming Big Brother with concerns over the company’s “spying” features in iOS 4, a matter that’s giving the company a big black eye. Maybe two.

Security researchers at Privacy International (https://www.privacyinternational.org) says that iOS 4 keeps track of where you go and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner’s computer when the two are synchronized, according to “The Guardian” (http://macte.ch/RcpCR).

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Apple patent is for an electronic sighting compass

Apple patent is for an electronic sighting compass

Posted by | Apr 21, 2011 | , |

An Apple patent (number 20110090244) for an electronic sighting compass has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. The invention relates to a portable electronic device — iPhones, no doubt, as well as, perhaps, iPod touches and iPads — having a compass function and, more particularly, to a device wherein the compass function is integrated with a camera function to provide an electronic sighting compass.

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Mac beats the growth of PC industry overall — again

Posted by | Apr 21, 2011 | , |

Though iPad sales were less than anticipated and iPod sales were (as expected) down, Apple had a bang-up fiscal 2011 second quarter with great Mac and iPhone sales. So how did I do on my predictions? Let’s see…

What I predicted:

iPhone unit sales: 17.7 million
iPod unit sales: 10.3 million
Mac unit sales: 3.7 million
iPad unit sales: 7.5 million
Revenue: $24 billion
EPS: $5.90

The real results:

iPhone unit sales: 18.65 million
iPod unit sales: 9.02 million
Mac unit sales: 3.76 million
iPad unit sales: 4.69 million
Revenue: $24.67 billion
EPS: $6.40

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