Following a string of In-App purchase stories and scandals, Apple’s In-App purchase system is to face investigation from UK watchdog agency the Office of Fair Trading. Following a 300% increase in complaints, and several high profile news stories, the UK watchdog is seeking to find out if the games are “misleading, commercially aggressive or…
Remember all the Office for iOS rumors? At one point the supposed release was last month, and before that it was rumored to make an appearance in November. We’ve even seen what was supposedly an early version of the application running on an iPad. Well, these rumors are back, and they are coming in the form of a supposed leaked roadmap that ZDNet has gotten…
It has emerged that a ruling in January by the US Patent and Trademark office denied Apple the rights to a trademark for the iPad Mini on the grounds that the term was “merely descriptive” and did not create a unique meaning. Apple has until July to convince the Patent Office that the iPad mini is in fact a different product to its iPad, rather than…
Microsoft is not a fan of Apple’s new iOS 6.1 update. As you may know, there have been numerous bugs in Apple’s latest software update. One such issue is a bug that causes logs in Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2010 to grow and therefore slow down servers. To remedy this issue, Microsoft suggests that administrators of servers block all iOS devices…
There have been plenty of Office for iPad/iPhone leaks, but now the CEO of the company behind the productivity suite, Steve Ballmer, has made some very conflicting comments on the possibility of such software. He basically said that he has no comment on the matter, but why? He went on saying that, when asked about Office on iPad, Microsoft is…
It has been rumored for what seems like forever that Microsoft’s Office applications would be finding their way onto iOS devices, such as the iPad. It was seemingly confirmed a while back, but Microsoft came out with a statement saying that the remarks regarding the development of Office for iOS were inaccurate. Well, some references to iOS devices have…
One of Apple’s most important patents, commonly referred to as the “Steve Jobs patent” or “the iPhone patent,” has run into some trouble with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Approved back in 2009, Apple has been using this particular patent as grounds to sue every company from Samsung to Motorola, but it seems that this patent-galavanting has…
TiP Daily Nov 7, 2012: Rumors are circulating that Apple is already working on Retina displays for the next iPad mini, Microsoft could be launching Office for iOS as early as February, and more! – Replace Siri with Google Voice: http://tinyurl.com/a3fmvk8 – Office for iOS: http://tinyurl.com/awjqks6 – iPad mini with Retina…
A new rumor floating around is suggesting that a revamped iWork suite is coming soon to the iPad. The crazy part of this is the report by CRN claims that Apple is working with the virtualization company VMWare to help with the new software. This would make use of desktop virtualization to provide a cloud version of iWork, and would be mostly enterprise…
After seemingly months or even years of rumors, it looks like we could finally see an official version of Office for iPad early next year. A product manager over at Ballmer’s company, Petr Bobek virtually confirmed it to an audience at a Czech press event earlier today. Native apps for both iOS and Android will be released in March next year (2013),…
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