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Apple Unveils iOS 8, the Biggest Release Since the Launch of the App Store — Introduces iCloud Photo Library, New Messages Features & New Health App — SAN FRANCISCOJune 2, 2014Apple® today unveiled iOS 8, the biggest release since the launch of the App Store, giving users incredible … | Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Apple takes on Dropbox with iCloud Drive, lowers storage prices to $0.99/month for 20 GB, $3.99 for 200 GB — Apple meets Dropbox head-on with iCloud Drive — At WWDC 2014, Apple announced iCloud Drive, a Dropbox-like file system for storing your documents in the cloud.
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
iOS 8: interactive notifications, improved keyboard, Messages app, Spotlight search, enterprise functionality, more; public beta this summer, release in fall — Apple Introduces iOS 8 — Last year, Apple revealed the biggest change to-date of iOS, the mobile operating system that many of us have been using for years.
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Apple Drops Google For Bing As “Spotlight” Search Provider In iOS 8 & Mac OS X “Yosemite” — Bing has gained another win with Apple, becoming integrated into a new version of Spotlight in Apple's forthcoming Mac OS X “Yosemite” operating system and in the coming iOS 8 mobile operating system.
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Big Win For DuckDuckGo: Apple Adding To Safari As Private Search Option — DuckDuckGo, the search engine that positions itself as a completely secure and private search engine, is getting a big boost. Apple is making it part of Safari in the next versions of Mac OS and iOS as an option that users can choose.
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Apple Releases iOS 8 SDK With Over 4,000 New APIs — Biggest Developer Release Ever Includes Extensibility Features, HealthKit, HomeKit & Swift — SAN FRANCISCOJune 2, 2014Apple® today released its iOS 8 SDK, the biggest developer release ever with more than 4,000 new APIs …
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| Chris Dannen / Fast Company: |
Apple's 850-page Swift iBook is out; here's how the language differs from C and Objective-C — What's New And Different About Apple's New Swift Programming Language? — We tore apart Apple's 850-page iBook on its new, simpler programming language, to find out why Apple would introduce a new language …
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| Husain Sumra / MacRumors: |
Xcode 6 Allows Developers to Test Larger iPhone and iPad Screen Sizes — With the release of Xcode 6 today after Worldwide Developer Conference, developers have found an option within Xcode to size apps for devices referred to as “Resizable iPhone” and “Resizable iPad”, as pointed out by Mac4Ever [Google Translate].
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Apple to deliver ‘Metal’ platform for high-end games on iOS — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple likely made some creators of high-end video games happy today. — At its Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced a new platform technology for game developers, dubbed Metal …
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Apple Announces OS X Yosemite — Introduces Refined New Design, Powerful Apps & Amazing New Continuity Features — SAN FRANCISCOJune 2, 2014Apple® today announced OS X® Yosemite, a powerful new version of OS X redesigned and refined with a fresh, modern look …
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What's Apple Really Up To? Keeping You in Apple World. — Today, at its annual developers conference, WWDC 2014, Apple laid out the first step in its latest plans — new versions of its mobile and Mac operating systems, iOS and OS X, respectively. The second step will come in the fall …
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Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, MacDailyNews, fr.anc.is, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Pixel Envy, VentureBeat, The Register and AdExchanger. Tweets: @mrinaldesai
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Home Deco Site Houzz Raises $150M At A $2.3B Post-Money Valuation — Looks like home-remodelling and design site Houzz is upsizing. Filings that the startup made at the end of May in Delaware, uncovered by the folks at VCExperts, indicate that it is raising a Series D round of $150 million …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
No Microsoft Start Menu for Windows 8 until 2015: Sources — Summary: It's looking like Microsoft's new ‘mini’ Start Menu for Windows 8.x won't be part of Windows 8.1 Update 2 as rumored. Instead, it's sounding like a 2015 deliverable now. — Microsoft won't be delivering a new Start Menu …
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