Apple To Unveil Lion, iOS 5, iCloud

Apple will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference next week. In an unusual move, they have pre-announced the topics for Steve Jobs’ keynote presentation. As expected, he will show Lion, the next version of Mac OS X due out later this year. In addition, a new version of the iPhone and iPad operating system will be discussed. Also, the new iCloud service will be unveiled. The keynote will take place on Monday, June 6 at 10 a.m. in San Francisco.
In a rapid series of events this week, Apple began battling it out against a recent attack of trojan malware. Apple released a security update for Snow Leopard on Tuesday that identified and eradicated the Mac Defender malware. But the next day a new variant of the trojan appeared that looked different enough from the original that it was not detected. Apple responded on Thursday with an update to the security definitions that catches that version as well.
Key in all of this is a change in Snow Leopard as part of the update. OS X now checks in with Apple every day for new malware definitions. A definition is a description of malware that allows Snow Leopard to identify and deal with potential threats.
In other news, patent holding firm Lodsys has filed lawsuits against several iOS app developers claiming that they own the rights to in app purchases and upgrade links. After initially threatening lawsuits, Apple responded in defense of developers saying that Apple’s license to the patents covered them. But Lodsys stated that it disagrees.