Enterprise loves hardware that incorporate fingerprint readers, now Apple is in a position to add this feature to Macs and iOS devices.
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will use $356 million of its nearly $120 billion cash hoard to snap up AuthenTec (NASDAQ: AUTH), a 217-employee, Melbourne, Fla.-based mobile security vendor. The deal will pay AuthenTec’s shareholders $8 per share or a 60 percent bump over Thursday’s $5.07 closing price.
AuthenTec, founded in 1998, makes fingerprint sensors and identity management software.
Apple has been dabbling in wearable tech, at least when it comes to the U.S. Patent Office, and a new application uncovered Thursday by AppleInsider adds to that growing category.
Presumably designed long ago to sneakily land smack-bang on the day that the CES show in Las Vegas starts in earnest, Apple’s “Mac App Store” has finally and officially opened at last, beating Microsoft to any PC App Store punch and set to make Apple a whole lotta extra moolah, no longer just on every sale of hardware, but now on the sale of any and all software through the Mac App Store, too!
While it would simplify things for Apple, consumers and Apple's hardware partners if all iOS devices shared a single unified connector, this is unlikely to happen overnight.
Apple and Samsung’s litigation continues as Apple demands $2.525 billion from Samsung due to previous patent infringements. Foss Patents did a unit cost breakdown on how much money Apple is actually requesting.
Apple has introduced a new feature for existing Apple TV second and third generation hardware in its latest beta software for those devices, according to 9t05Mac.
Obama in #SOTU: "this year, Apple will start making Macs in America again." #JobsNow— The White House (@whitehouse) February 13, 2013
President Obama gave a huge shout-out to Apple during his State of the Union address tonight, using the company as an example of how manufacturers are once again seeing value in making things in America: “This year, Apple will start making Macs
An update to the Developer Preview of Apple's forthcoming OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion has revealed the existence of a new mechanism for automatically installing security updates to Macs.
{loadposition stephen08}According to multiple reports, Apple has added a new security update mechanism to the developer preview of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
Revealed by the recent release to developers of OS X Securit
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