German publishers are planning a competitor for Apple’s textbook initiative
According to a report by the German website heise.de, 27 educational publishers are preparing a joint textbook distribution platform, with plans to unveil an early...
Proof is in the pudding: iMessage is clearly disrupting SMS profits
When iOS 5 was announced, and previewed last June, many expected it would drastically influence the text messaging world, but no one really knew just...
Realmac Software goes ToDo, announces Clear
Big news today: one of our favorite Mac App developers, Realmac Software, has taken a step into iOS applications. Their app, Clear, isn’t available just...
Apple had a great Christmas Day with $120 million in iTunes sales
Apple had an amazing Christmas in terms of sales. The company released some figures for their 2011 holiday season. On Christmas Day alone, the company...
Apple left Exxon in the dust and became world’s largest company today, for a few hours
Apple is on fire. The company just released revenue numbers yesterday that blow predictions and estimates out of the waters. Not to mention, an interesting observation was...
iPad popular among business professionals, especially in Africa
In light of yesterday’s announcement of Apple’s record-breaking quarterly results, a recently released study by IDG Connect regarding the use of iPads in business might...
Zynga shamelessly rips off NimbleBits’ Tiny Tower
When Zynga came knocking, looking to acquire NimbleBits, they were probably hoping to add Tiny Tower, rated the iPhone game of the year by Apple,...
Despite rumors of Android domination, the iPhone is still on the top of the growth curve
According to a study by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the iPhone is growing at a faster rate than its competitors once again. Kanter’s findings have indicated...
Magnetic iPad stand keeps the focus on your sexy iPad
Too many cases place focus on a sexy design, and not enough place emphasis on how your iPad looks sitting on your desk. Ten One...
Tim Cook sends out email to staff and hints at ‘exciting news’ tomorrow at Town Hall
Apple CEO Tim Cook has followed suit with the late Steve Jobs in terms of sending out occasional emails. Today, after the company announced its...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...