iCloud

According to Brazilian Apple site Blogdoiphone, iOS 6.1 (as seen in beta 3) will ask users to create security questions and set a recovery email during the initial setup for an iCloud account. Example security questions include asking the user what their favourite children's book was and what the model was of their first car. Apple...

An ex-Apple employee has a lot to say about the company, particularly when it comes to their Internet-enabled endeavours (including services like iCloud, MobileMe, and .Mac). According to engineer Patrick B. Gibson, "almost everything Apple does which involves the internet is a mess." (via ZDNET) Gibson helped build the original iPad before leaving Apple for work at...

You're not going crazy--iMessage and FaceTime is currently down for the count. Apple's iCloud status page was recently updated to reflect the outage, even though it the outage has affected users for the past 2-3 hours. Expect Apple to fix this shortly. iMessage was previously down a couple times in late October. Apple needs to...

Innovation Automation, a San Jose based company, claims that Apple's iCloud product and service infringes on two of its patents. (more…)

Apple sent out an email this morning to its old MobileMe customers iCloud emails are now reserved for them: All new iCloud Mail accounts now come with an @icloud.com email address. As an existing user, we'd like to offer you this new address as well. We have reserved _____@icloud.com for you, and you can now...

The first stage of building Apple's massive Prineville data centre has started with flattening land for the one of two 338,000 sf buildings. At this point Apple will need to shell out $68 million for one building with two data halls inside, but this is just the start: the company's plans filed with Crook County...

A British Columbia woman recently experienced the trip of her life while visiting England. With every joyful trip, photographs were taken, but on this specific trip they weren't brought home. Linda Sieben vacationed in Great Britain for nearly four weeks over this past summer. The vacation was one she dreamed of since her childhood. But...

Apple noted the MobileMe changeover to iCloud would result in a free 20GB of storage space to go along with the complimentary 5GB. Now, many users are seeing iCloud storage expiration dates of 2050 in their accounts. You can check your iCloud storage expiration date by going to Settings-->iCloud-->Account. Here's a screenshot of the 2050...

Earlier this year, a month prior to the announcement of iOS 6 in May a report surfaced of the iCloud website testing notification banners online. The ability was short-lived and we haven't seen such functionality on the iCloud website since. With the official release of many new applications on the iCloud website over the past week we...

As noted by 9to5Mac, Apple has released the new and improved iCloud out of its beta, formerly available to developers. The beta introduces new apps such as Notes and Reminders and improvements to apps such as Find my iPhone. What's interesting to note is Find my iPhone still uses Google Maps, even though Apple is...

A report by Japanese blog Macotakara has brought new life to the iPod Nano, while also providing insight on the smaller iPad's name. I wouldn't label this upcoming report as a done-deal, it's fairly notable that Macotakara's track record is sometimes on the money, and other times a mile off. iPod nano Apple's iPod nano is...

Yesterday we wrote about a harrowing story where Find my Friends was used to locate a stolen iPad. To our surprise, the man behind it was none other than one our readers @shuether. Turns out it was his sister's iPad and he used Find my Friends to locate the iPad successfully, even though the thieves...