Tag: Apple
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...
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...
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....
Jon Stewart debates what’s going on behind the scenes at Foxconn
Alright, everyone has heard of Foxconn. After all, the Chinese manufacturing giant produces just about every cool tech device out there. They’re behind your favorite...
Resurrect your iPhone 3G with the alternative Whited00r operating system
If you’re just not ready to upgrade from your iPhone 3G, but you can’t handle the lag that recent updates brought with them, you may...
iOS edges BlackBerry, Android as top mobile platform in the enterprise
Check Point Software has released the results of a survey they conducted on mobile platform proliferation in the corporate world today. The study tries to...
Roger Rosner is leading the textbook revolution at Apple
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Roger Rosener, Vice President of Productivity Applications at Apple, and the man in charge of the iWork suite,...
NYC might be getting its 7th Apple Store
Lucky so-and-sos! Clare Trapasso of the New York Daily News is reporting that a retail developer in Queens is attempting to convince Apple to build...
Penultimate gets Dropbox, Evernote integration
If you’re into handwriting apps on your iPad, Penultimate is pretty much the clutch, goto application in times of need for doodlers, students, and anyone...
Rumor: iPad 3 announcement could be coming as soon as February
Oy vey! Japanese Apple blog Macotakara is reporting that they have sources that say an iPad announcement is coming next month, although the product won’t...
iTunes Match now available in 19 more countires
Good news, everyone — Apple’s iTunes Match, a service for keeping all of your music in the cloud for $25 USD per year, is now available...
Not even 6 months in and we’re already talking succession plan for Tim Cook
According to Fortune author Adam Lashinsky’s new book, titled Inside Apple, Scott Forstall is the most likely VP to take up the CEO helm once...
Was Steve Jobs the first Inhumane Humanist?
Just when you thought there wasn’t any more that could be said about the Steve Jobs biography, someone comes along and adds a coherent and...
The Bluelounge Minidock is the world’s simplest iPhone dock
Hate having your favorite iOS devices cluttering your kitchen counter while they charge? Yeah, me too. Audio docks are great, but if all you need...
Glass Apple Store comes to southern France
Apple is not leaving the cutting edge in retail store design alone. This rendering of a mainly glass Apple Store in Aix en Provence, France,...
Fraser Speirs continues educating the masses about multitasking with a new video
Back in early January we wrote a post titled The truth about iOS multitasking: not multitasking at all?. In it we highlighted Fraser Speirs’ comments...
Could Apple be looking to waterproof the iPhone 5 with HZO nanotech?
It appears that we weren’t far off last week when we suggested that Apple should look into partnering with Liquipel to water-proof its devices. According...
iPhone 5 concept introduces the idea of squeeze based home button
There are a lot of great iPhone concepts on the Internet, and some obviously fall very short, but this new concept, originally posted by AppAdvice...