Per square foot, the White House is worth about as much as an Apple Store’s sales

Well, this is certainly interesting. CNN is reporting that the average value of sales per square foot of an Apple store is roughly the worth...
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Get USB electrical outlets without having to change all of your power sockets

Charging your iPhone and other USB based devices is obviously quite the pain. Last week we featured the world’s smallest, and quite possibly smartest, iPhone...
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Apple spends big on Google Adwords in 2011

Google’s 2011 revenues not only reveals that Google made 96 percent of all of its money from Google Adwords (the total is $37.9 billion, of...
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Guess who’s buying most of the semiconductors? Yup, Apple.

According to a report published today by analyst firm Gartner, Apple has become the biggest buyer of semiconductors, surpassing Samsung and HP. In 2011, Gartner...
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Apple publishes iTunes U help portal online

Apple updated its iTunes U platform last week during the company’s education keynote. Previously, universities were able to create audio and video content for lectures,...
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Reckless Racing 2 will be released next week

While information is sparse, Polarbit has let it slip on Twitter that Reckless Racing 2 will be available on February 2nd. Like we said, Polarbit...
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Students innovate the digital page flip, blow iBooks out of the water

Page flips elicited oohs and ahhs from the crowd when iBooks was released for the iPad. Actually, it still kind of does. However, that doesn’t...
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Apple sees 350,000 textbooks downloaded in the days after the iBooks 2 launch

Three days after Apple launched iBooks 2 with textbook support, an estimated 350,000 textbooks have been downloaded. That, my friends, is pretty impressive if the...
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Apple is snagging talent from HP’s WebOS team

It’s looking like Apple, as well as a handful of other tech companies, are taking advantage of HP’s recent fumbles by sniping talent from WebOS...
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Dropbox functionality was on the table with MobileMe, Finder team said nope

The Next Web is reporting that Dropbox‘s CEO Drew Houston has been talking at the DLD Conference about Apple’s own cloud initiatives. Martin Bryant, The...
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Apple Retail Stores could be making an appearance in India soon

According to a report from Livemint.com, Apple could be getting ready to open stores in India, following a policy change that allows full ownership of...
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Nielsen: 43 percent of iPhone buyers chose older iPhones during last quarter

A survey of new iPhone owners conducted in December brought to light two interesting facts: 53 percent of customers surveyed bought an iPhone 4S, meaning...
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GreenPois0n Absinthe finally brings untethered jailbreak to iPhone 4S and iPad 2

It’s finally here. Greenpois0n Absinthe has brought an untethered jailbreak to the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. If you’re down with jailbreaking, this new jailbreak...
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Twitter buys up popular iPhone app, web service, Summify

Summify, a popular social network curation service, and iPhone app, has been acquired by Twitter and will be shutting down. Summify provided a nice, daily...
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Asymco founder, Horace Dediu, is starting his own conference

Horace Dediu, founder and author of Asymco.com, an independent industry analysis site, is starting his own conference, promising an “engaging, participatory experience” for attendees. Mr....
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Apple announces iBooks Author application to assist in building digital textbooks

Today at its Education event in New York City, Apple announced the creation of a new digital textbook authoring tool called iBooks Author. The application...
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Apple announces iBooks 2 at its New York City education event

Today, Apple announced the next version of iBooks at their New York education event. This update focuses on bringing textbooks to the digital age. iBooks...
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Apple announces iTunes U update, now also K-12

Up to this point, iTunes U has mainly been used for lectures in video and audio form. Somewhat impressively, there have been over 700 million...
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