Apple Business Essentials offers small and midsized companies iCloud+ for Work, 24/7 Apple support, device, application, and user management among other services. Apple today took a major step into enterprise technology provision, unveiling a new service called Apple Business Essentials — adding yet another strong argument to support enterprise deployment of its products. What is Apple Business Essentials? The … Read more
Apple’s software engineering chief Craig Federighi recently said Macs aren’t yet as secure as iOS devices — should we be worried? Apple’s software engineering chief Craig Federighi recently told us that Macs aren’t yet as secure as iOS devices, but does this mean Mac users need to worry? What Federighi said Apple’s software lead was … Read more
One day after Apple unveiled new computers that run on Apple-designed silicon, Microsoft issued a preview of Office for the Mac that will run natively on the new hardware. Microsoft on Wednesday issued a preview of Office for the Mac that will run natively on Apple’s upcoming ARM-based laptops. The Redmond, Wash. company also modified … Read more
Among other things, smart vehicles, immersive AR/VR environments and edge-based device intelligence will drive Apple’s new decade. Apple patents granted in the final moments of 2019 shine a little light into its plans for the next decade. What the patents say Apple won 31 patents on Dec. 31, 2019. Three are of particular interest: A passenger safety … Read more
The company first unveiled the latest version of its desktop OS at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in June. It arrived for all users on Monday. Apple released 2019’s free upgrade to macOS 10.15, aka “Catalina.” Available from the Mac App Store, where the upgrade was tagged at nearly 5GB or as an even larger … Read more
“Born-in the Cloud” workloads might be designed to be platform-agnostic now, but that doesn’t mean it will always be the case, as hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure continue to add specific and unique functionality to their hosted services. The evolution of the consumer cloud has been tied to the services that the major … Read more
The end of the year offers a chance to compare the two companies which most strongly symbolize the tech industry through the years. These two are like George Clooney and Russell Crowe. They’ve been around forever, yet still somehow manage to do enough to recalibrate themselves for a new generation. Sometimes, their work verges on … Read more
Malware targeting Apple Mac computers more than doubled from 2016 to 2017, according to security firm Malwarebytes. Apple Mac computers are traditionally considered to be less vulnerable to cyber attacks, but malware targeting their operating systems is on the rise, warns security firm Malwarebytes. According to the firm’s statistics, Mac-specific malware increased by 270% in … Read more
