Judge Susan Illston has indicated she will accept the terms of a settlement deal between Google and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, in which Google will pay an US$22.5 million fine for circumventing privacy protections in Apple’s Safari browser, reports the “IDG News Service” (http://macte.ch/xpNhN).
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Google’s mobile maps product saw its market share in China decline by close to 50 percent in the third quarter due to Apple switching to its own maps product for its iOS 6 upgrade, according to a Beijing-based research firm — as reported by the “IDG News Service” (http://macte.ch/9St40).
At the end of the third quarter, the company’s market share fell to 9%, making it the sixth largest vendor in China’s mobile maps sector, according to Analysys International. It the previous quarter Google’s market share was 17.5%.
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As Windows 8 launches, the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini continue to see long ordering delays, Android exceeds 1M activations a day and RIM prepares BlackBerry 10 for early 2013, the app market is poised for continued growth, says Strategy Analytics (www.strategyanalytics.com)
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MacMate (http://www.macmate.me), which launched as an Apple MobileMe replacement, has announced its first major update since June: adding Calendar sharing, an iOS App, introducing two new packages and increasing the storage on its current Pro version to a 25GB.
The changes are designed to offer an alternative for users looking at cloud-disk services like Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft’s SkyDrive services. MacMate Disk costs US$39 per year featuring 5GB of online cloud storage, 1x email with domain support and unlimited calendar hosting.
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By Rob James
The recent Google Maps controversy has been a rare misstep for Apple. The company’s proprietary maps app was intended to replace Google Maps as the default map service for iOS 6 and the iPhone 5, but came with multiple bugs, ranging from missing locations to wrong directions.
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