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Apple joins Blender Development Fund
The Blender Foundation today announced that Apple has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member to support…
Apple open-sources portions of their HomeKit Accessory Development Kit
Apple is open-sourcing portions of its HomeKit Accessory Development Kit (ADK) in a move to accelerate development…
Apple, Google and Amazon decide to ‘play nice’ over smart home tech
The highly competitive tech giants Apple, Google and Amazon have announced they are teaming up in an effort to make smart…
Amazon, Apple, Google, Zigbee Alliance join forces to develop open standard for smart home devices
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance today announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote the adoption of a new, royalty-free connectivity standard…
Mac browser shootout: Microsoft Edge vs. Apple Safari vs. Google Chrome vs. Mozilla’s Firefox
You can now download and run the web browser Microsoft Edge on your Mac…
Microsoft Edge browser for Mac leaks
icrosoft’s latest version of the Edge web browser — which is based on the open source Chromium engine…
Microsoft’s Edge browser shift has major implications for software and devices
Sometimes it’s the news behind the news that’s really important…
Microsoft buys GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock
Microsoft Corp. said it reached an agreement to buy GitHub Inc., the code repository company popular…
Can me-too Google’s me-too ‘Google Fit’ catch up with Apple’s revolutionary HealthKit?
Not long after Apple launched its health platform HealthKit on iOS in mid-2014…
iPhone apps hold the potential to revolutionize health
More than a year and a half ago, Apple unveiled a new breed of iPhone apps that would let people…
Emails between Apple and FDA hint at future plans
Since its well-publicized meeting with the FDA in 2013, Apple has continued to meet with the agency…
Apple reportedly working on sleep tracker for the Apple Watch
During the unveiling of the new Apple Watch, the iPhone-maker presented the wearable as primarily a fitness device…
Apple to expand HealthKit from tracker to diagnosis tool; new Apple Watch apps for sleep tracking, fitness levels in pipeline
So far Apple Inc.’s HealthKit has mostly collected fitness data from its devices…
Apple working on all-new, advanced health-tracking hardware; years in the making
Apple has developed a ‘revolutionary idea’ with this new product…
Apple’s Swift programming language drives enterprise mobile rethink
SAP SE on Friday shared more details with CIO Journal on its Apple Inc. partnership aimed at creating…
Nearly half of OS X devs want to learn Swift
Almost a quarter (25 percent) of OS X developers don’t use file sharing in the cloud…
First Apple CareKit apps arrive
Apple sees a huge opportunity to connect patients, doctors, and caregivers using mobile technology…
Google mulls adopting Apple’s Swift language for Android
About the time Swift was going open source, representatives for three major brands..
How iPhone CareKit apps will revolutionize health care
Apple’s most revelatory launch of the spring isn’t new hardware…
Apple advances health apps with CareKit
Apple today announced CareKit, a new software framework designed to help developers enable people…
Apple announces advancements to ResearchKit
Apple today announced advancements to the open source ResearchKit framework…
WWDC 2016’s star of the show: Apple’s Swift 3.0
The number of jobs requesting Swift in the last full year versus the previous full year climbed by 600 percent…
Want a developer job? Time to learn Apple’s Swift as demand skyrockets
Developers who can code in Apple’s Swift programming language have been the most in demand over the past year…
When your client demands Swift
Every day, more and more developers are being hired based on their Swift skills…
How much is Apple really using Swift?
Apple has been actively evangelizing the use of Swift since it was announced at WWDC in 2014…
Fun with Swift
Swift is certainly not a pure functional language but it’s whole lot better than Objective-C…
After Apple open sources it, IBM puts Swift programming in the cloud
That didn’t take long: As soon as Apple released its Swift programming language to the open source community…
Apple officially releases Swift programming language as open source
Introduced in 2014, Swift is the fastest growing programming language in history and combines the performance and efficiency…
Welcome to Swift.org: Swift is now open source!
As promised earlier in the year, Apple’s Swift team has now posted source code for the Swift compiler and…
Tim Cook hints Apple might build a health device
Apple CEO Tim Cook has hinted that the company may one day built a medical device, following the success of the Apple Watch…
Move over HealthKit: Why Apple’s ResearchKit is proving the real hit with doctors
Announced alongside iOS 8, HealthKit is a health and fitness-tracking platform that allows health data gathered by the iPhone or Watch…
Johns Hopkins epileptic seizure-symptom app is latest Apple medical research tool
Soon, Apple iPhones and Appel Watches may be able to recognize when someone’s having an epileptic seizure, and call for help…
Apple announces new ResearchKit studies for autism, epilepsy and melanoma
ResearchKit turns iPhone into a powerful tool for medical research by helping doctors, scientists and other researchers gather data more frequently and more accurately…
Hey U.S. FCC, don’t lock down our Wi-Fi routers!
In March of 2014, the FCC updated its requirements for U-NII devices operating on the 5 Ghz bandwidth…
Apple working to unify cloud services platform amid open-source push, sources say
Apple is developing a technology platform that can power all of its Web services, such as iCloud and iTunes, which have long run…
ResearchKit: The inside story of how Apple’s revolutionary medical research platform was born
On September 27, 2013, during a dimly-lit presentation…
SAP asks Apple, Microsoft to share hacker-fighting intelligence
SAP SE is trying to marshal business technology’s biggest companies…
Open-source Firefox OS takes aim at Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android
A new Firefox operating system for mobile devices is set for a July release…
Why webOS will fail – again
WebOS, first from Palm and then from Hewlett Packard, came and went so fast…
Has HP suddenly become Google’s worst nightmare?
After a sort of stay-the-course introductory speech…
HP to open source webOS
HP today announced it will contribute the webOS software to the open source community….
