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According to the Wall Street Journal, Google and other companies have been secretly tracking iPhone users by circumventing Safari to 'trick' it into accepting cookies from third parties: The companies used special computer code that tricks Apple's Safari Web-browsing software into letting them monitor many users. Safari, the most widely used browser on mobile devices,...

Brazilian blog BlogdoiPhone has leaked screenshots that show a version of iOS 5.1 pre-GM that shows a new screen for the camera shortcut on the homescreen and also further evidence of Siri's support for Japanese, which was previously noticed by the assistant itself. Currently the shortcut to the iPhone's camera from the lockscreen is to...

Part of Apple's announcement of OS X Mountain Lion for developers today was also the availability of the download of Messages Beta, which has the following features: Send unlimited iMessages to any Mac, iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch (iOS 5 required). Start an iMessage conversation on your Mac and continue it on your iPad, iPhone, or...

Publishers that use Apple's iBookstore received a letter from iTunes Connect saying that they have rolled out some updates and changes. The most welcome improvement for publishers is most likely the ability to issue up to 50 promo codes to book reviewers, much like App Store developers can for their apps. Amongst the other changes...

Apple has just released a beta version of Messages for Mac, promising a taste of what's to come from OS X Mountain Lion.   Messages replaces iChat and brings all of the functionality you get with iMessage on your iOS device, right onto your Mac, and as with iMessage, the feature list is a follows:...

As noted earlier, Apple allowed a few select tech bloggers and media attend their preview of OS X Mountain Lion, (note that it's no longer 'Mac' OS X) a meeting that occurred last week in New York City. Here is round up of their early reviews: Daring Fireball The Loop Macworld The Verge CNET AllThingsD...

Apple has announced this morning a developer preview of its next release of its operation system, OS X Mountain Lion. This new OS is set to debut in the Mac Store in late summer 2012, and will essentially bring further iOS integration to the Mac. Apple's website already has a preview page up for OS...

Apple has broken its silence over the much publicized issue over the use of contact data by iOS apps. In a statement to AllThingsD, the company had this to say: “Apps that collect or transmit a user’s contact data without their prior permission are in violation of our guidelines,” Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr told AllThingsD....

Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook was the guest speaker at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference. A passionate Tim Cook started off the afternoon by reiterating Apple's commitment to safe working conditions for supply chain employees. He was dead serious in his reiteration of Apple's commitment to improve working standards and transparency when it...

When the iPhone 4S was launched, just a few months ago, it introduced a revolutionary assistant called Siri. At the time of launch, Apple said it was just in beta, and would improve as time went on. The default languages at launch were English, French, and German. Well it seems, that there will be another...

Last week's discovery of Path's unauthorized uploading of our personal data to their servers has had many people questioning how safe our information really is. Forbes now points to a 15 page study called PiOS: Detecting Privacy Leaks in iOS Applications written by a team of international university researchers. The team consists of Manuel Egele from the...

Tim Cook is set to speak at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference today, set to begin shortly at 12:30PM PST/3:30PM EST. The presentation will be live streamed via an audio webcast, which you can listen in on here. Welcome to the audio webcast of Tim Cook's presentation at the Goldman Sachs Technology and...