Among the many updates delivered in Apple’s recent quarterly conference call, the company noted that iCloud is now up to an impressive 300 million users – that’s a 20% increase from the 250 million reported last quarter, and a 200% increase from the 100 million users reported one year ago.
Some users of Apple’s online services might be having problems accessing certain areas of the service.
A number of users are experiencing problems as an outage of Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime services has occurred. Downtime is currently nearing two hours as of the time of this article.
While Apple’s Reno, NV data center project was thought to just be in the planning stages, it turns out that the initial piece of the project is just days from going online.
Apple cloud services are certainly not without fault – for instance, the system has experience more outages than any of its competitors. According to a new report from Strategy Analytics, however, that hasn’t prevented iCloud from becoming the most-used cloud service in the U.S.!
If you’re looking for a way to secure your Apple ID against hijacking and password theft, enabling Apple’s new two-step authentication is a huge step in the right direction. This adds a second layer of protection on top of your password, ensuring that only you are able to make purchases or modify information in your Apple account.
Apple’s introduction of two-step authentication for Apple IDs was a great step forward in helping users protect their account security – but according to The Verge, a new security bug has been discovered which allows anyone to reset your Apple ID password using only your email address and password. Notably, the issue only affects customers who have NOT enabled two-step verification.
Apple’s iCloud and Apple ID security has been behind for a long time – but today, Apple has finally decided to beef up their security by adding the option for two-step verification for iCloud and Apple ID logins. Two-step verification adds an additional security code on top of your password, which is required to log in and make changes to your account.
Apple and Adobe haven’t always gotten along well in the past, especially when it comes to Flash Player (Steve Jobs was publicly vocal about his disdain for Flash Player, especially on iOS devices) – but according to CNBC, Adobe’s Chief Technology Office will be abandoning his position at Adobe in favor of a new role on Apple’s executive team.
iCloud is currently having issues with multiple iCloud services. The services listed as affected are: Photo Stream, Documents in the Cloud and Backup.
While Apple does not attend the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, their shadow still looms large over the event. This year, Apple loomed large at the event in another important way: By winning a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award!
Apple has rolled out an update to its iCloud status page. It now covers 32 online services, and gives a graphical representation of any outages as they occur on a sliding timeline.
Chances are, to go along with your nifty new @icloud.com address, you probably have either a @mac.com or @me.com address, or both. Want to simplify things and just use your @icloud.com address as the default for sending email? Here’s how.
Mere hours after a significant iMessage and FaceTime outage, Apple’s iTunes Match is unavailable for some users on Monday morning.
While OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 users have been able to share their reminders with others via the native reminders app, Windows users and others have been unable to setup shared reminders. Now Apple has taken steps to remedy that.
When Apple discoutinued their paid MobileMe service last year in favor of the free iCloud service, they offered former MobileMe subscribers an extra 20GB of storage. They have now extended that offer for an additional year.