Judging from its periodic statements over the past year, WhatsApp has been adding around 25 million new active users every month, a pace that isn’t slowing. The 500 million people now on board send tens of billions of text messages a day, along with 700 million photos and 100 million videos. Harry McCracken | Time.com…

DirektPowerful Die eineinhalbminütige Ad, die den Song Gigantic der Pixies (iTunes-Link) featured, geht mit einer eigenen Webseite einher, auf der Apple sechs der gezeigten Apps auflistet. Seit dem Release des 5s im September 2013 ist ‚Powerful‘ erst der dritte Video-Werbespot, nach ‚On the runway‘ und ‚Metal Mastered‘, den Apple explizit seinem erfolgreichsten Produkt zugesteht.

Big news today from Apple: the company is opening its OS X Beta Seed Program to its customers. In the past, you needed to be a developer to access beta builds of OS X, but as of OS X 10.9.3, released earlier today, customers can also apply for access. Jim Dalrymple | The Loop Für…

Falls mehr drinsteckt als das Changelog verspricht, trage ich die Info hier nach. Update: iOS 7.1.1 beinhaltet über ein Dutzend kritischer Sicherheitsupdates, die unbedingt einzuspielen sind. (Danke, Georg!)

Apple has been interviewing senior payments industry executives to push ahead on a plan to build an electronic payments business, according to two people familiar with the process. […] Jennifer Bailey, Apple’s long-time e-commerce head, has met with candidates and is currently leading the initiative, according to these sources. “Their ambitions are very, very serious,” one of the…

DirektBetter Neben der Webseite, den dort platzierten Detailberichten und dem von Tim Cook eingesprochenen Spot, bekam Steven Levy eine überraschend offene1 Führung durch Apples neue US-Großrechenzentren. Here’s that story: Apple is close to its goal of powering all its facilities 100 percent by renewable energy. Its corporate campuses and data centers are now at 94…

Nike stoppt seine Ambitionen für den Aktivitätstracker FuelBand. Der Sportartikelhersteller bestätigte gegenüber CNET mittlerweile „eine kleine Anzahl von Entlassungen“, betont aber gleichzeitig sein anhaltendes Interesse an der Software-Entwicklung. As early as this fall, Nike planned on releasing another iteration of the FuelBand — an even slimmer version — but cancelled the project. […] Of those…

On 17th April 2014 a malware campaign targetting users of jailbroken iPhones has been discovered and discussed by reddit users. This malware appears to have Chinese origin and comes as a library called Unflod.dylib that hooks into all running processes of jailbroken iDevices and listens to outgoing SSL connections. From these connections it tries to…