Intuit has begun offering its entry-level financial management software Quicken Essentials for Mac on the Mac App Store. This is the standard edition of Essentials that has been on sale for quite a while, not a new version — something Intuit is quick …

Autodesk was at Macworld showing off a new product for the Mac called Autodesk Inventor Fusion. Autodesk Inventor Fusion is an existing 3D mechanical design software on Windows, but will soon become available for the Mac for the first time.

Au…

U.S. carrier T-Mobile has decided to offer “additional support” to customers using the iPhone on its network, reports TmoNews. While T-Mobile doesn’t sell the iPhone, it reports that more than 1 million unlocked iPhones are used on its network and the …

A U.S. District Judge has ruled that an anti-trust case filed against a number of tech companies can continue, saying “they still have an antitrust claim” according to Bloomberg.

[Judge] Koh didn’t take issue with the allegations about the agreeme…

Fun Facts about Cirque du Soleil's La Nouba at Downtown Disney.

Back in late December, Apple was fined $1.2 million by Italian regulators over allegations that the company promoted its AppleCare extended warranty program to customers without adequately disclosing that many of the program’s benefits were already…

In the wake of yesterday’s report regarding treatment of workers at the facilities of Apple’s suppliers, Apple CEO Tim Cook has sent an email to company employees addressing the situation. As published by 9to5Mac, the email highlights Apple’s efforts …

The absence of normal human interaction on websites such as Facebook and Twitter actively encourage people to say things they regret, a study suggests.

Manipur's 10th assembly elections have brought about some interesting features in the state. While strict guidelines on poll-related expenses by the Election Commission have resulted in drastic changes in election-related processes in the state, the reactions of various groups this time have been a mix of the familiar and new, says Chitra Ahanthem from Imphal.

Research firm Strategy Analytics today announced its estimates of the global smartphone market for the fourth quarter of 2011, finding that Apple narrowly squeezed by Samsung to retake the title of world’s largest smartphone vendor as measured by uni…

Macworld | iWorld carries the usual collection of iPhone cases and accessories, not all of which are insanely great. But here are a few interesting ones that were on the show floor as I made my way through the masses.

Opena Case and Intoxicase w…

We briefly mentioned WDC’s press release that they would be showing their new MyBook Thunderbolt Duo at Macworld. Here are photos from the show floor of the unit. As expected, the new drive shares the same appearance as their previous two drive MyB…

Valve, the company behind the popular gaming platform Steam, has released a new companion app for iPhone called Steam Mobile as a closed beta. The app allows Steam users to view their Steam friends list, see what games their friends are playing, and ch…

Earlier this week, Apple reported its best quarterly earnings ever, taking in more than $46 billion over three months. 53% of that revenue was from the sale of 37 million iPhones, at an average selling price of nearly $660. This ASP is particul…

One of Tim Cook’s first acts when he became CEO of Apple was to institute a charitable matching program for employees. Under the program, Apple would match employees’ personal contributions to 501(c)(3) charitable organizations up to $10,000 per ye…

Macworld | iWorld 2012 kicked off this morning in San Francisco with the opening of the expo show floor. For years, Macworld was the major trade show for Apple to announce their new products. The venue was the launching ground for the first iPhone l…

The New York Times today published a lengthy report discussing working conditions at the facilities of Apple’s suppliers in China, part of a growing focus on how Apple’s popular products are made. While the company is making strides in holding its sup…

In what seems like a logical result of economic pricing strategies, iPhone app developers who put their apps on sale see an average increase in revenue of 41% on the first day, and total increases of 22% after 15 days. App store analytics provider Dist…

Research firm Strategy Analytics today announced the results of its calculations of worldwide tablet shipments during the fourth quarter of 2011, revealing that Apple continues to hold a majority of the market as Android improves its standing on the st…

AT&T today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011, revealing that the carrier saw record-smashing sales of 9.4 million smartphones, nearly double the previous quarter’s sales and 50% higher than the company’s previous record. T…

Kathy Flegel, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, says bullying needs a community solution and offers advice for parents of children who are bullied and who bully.

Angry Birds lovers may get their dream date on Valentine's Day, when the lovable video game characters slingshot their way to social networking giant Facebook.

According to 9to5Mac, during today’s town hall meeting, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced to employees that they would get $500 off Macs and $250 iPads.

The new discount program starts in June 2012, and can only be used once every 3 years. Empl…

Brazilian newspaper Folha reports [Google translation] that the Brazilian government has officially approved tax incentives that will allow Foxconn to begin producing iPads in the country. Interministerial Ordinance #34, signed on Monday and published…

Motorola Mobility has filed a new lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida against Apple, asserting six patents against the iPhone 4S and iCloud. As noted by FOSS Patents, the merger agreement between Google and Motorola Mobility requires the compan…

British actor and Apple enthusiast Stephen Fry has narrated this in-depth and iPad-only virtual encyclopedia called Inside the World of Dinosaurs. In the works for more than a year, 30 dinosaur specialists collaborated on the $13.99 app, with 60 di…

Following a major expansion of iPhone 4S availability to China and 21 other countries two weeks ago, Apple appears to be preparing to make a few more additions to the device’s market reach this Friday, January 27.

Apple’s current iPhone partners in …

9to5Mac reports that it has received word from a “reliable” source at Foxconn that Apple is gearing up to begin production of the iPhone 5, suggesting that the company could be pushing for a mid-year launch more in line with pre-iPhone 4S debuts.The so…

Held Inside Leonardo da Vinci's Workshop, Expert Panel Includes Kobo Founder Michael SerbinisTORONTO , Jan. 25, 2012 /CNW/ – The Ontario Science Centre is set to explore the theme of modern innovation …

According to a new report from Israeli business newspaper Calcalist (via 9to5Mac), Apple has begun hiring for its research and development center in Haifa, Israel with a goal of opening the center by the end of February. The report claims that Apple h…

As noted by think broadband, a privacy flaw in the way UK carrier O2 handles web traffic on mobile devices has resulted in users’ mobile numbers being sent to any website visited from the device as part of the headers in the HTTP requests. While O2 is…

Apple has pushed out Build 11D50 of OS X 10.7.3 to registered developers. Apple continues to report no known issues in the seed notes, and asks developers to focus their testing on Address Book, iCal, Mail, Spotlight and Safari.

The previous build…

Contrary to some reports, Apple CEO Tim Cook said today that the company hadn’t seen any slowdown in iPad sales following the introduction of the much-hyped Kindle Fire tablet.

When asked by an analyst during today’s quarterly earnings call about …

Apple sold 1.4 million Apple TV set-top boxes in the Q1 2012 quarter, Apple CEO Tim Cook disclosed during today’s earnings call. Cook also disclosed that Apple sold 2.8 million Apple TVs in all of fiscal 2011, so the last quarter’s results seem to rep…

After today’s record breaking results, Apple will be holding a company-wide Town Hall for employees discussing some “exciting new things going on at Apple.” Tim Cook sent a company-wide email to employees, as posted by 9to5Mac:Thanks to everyone’s …

As a struggling Europe considers a sweeping new privacy law, Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, calls for a friendly regulatory environment that promotes innovation.

Concerned about privacy? Maybe you should be concernedabout the economy instead. That was the subtext of a keynote speech by Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, at a technology conference in the heart of Europe on Tuesday.

Annie Zhang, an analyst with Toronto-based investment bank Octagon Capital, is expecting some good stories to come out of Canada and Argentina this year. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, she targets several exploration and near-term producing companies with burgeoning results on the horizon.

Apple today announced financial results for the fourth calendar quarter of 2011 and first fiscal quarter of 2012. For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $46.33 billion and net quarterly profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted shar…

BOSTON, MA and DAVOS, SWITZERLAND– – As the annual World Economic Forum summit in Davos delves into “The Great Transformation: Taking Decisive Action in an Era of Extreme Uncertainty,” The Boston …

Barack Obama speaks at the spring 2010 commencement ceremonies at the University of Michigan.Melanie Maxwell | AnnArbor.com As President Barack Obama prepares for his State of the Union speech tonight, University of Michigan students are anticipating not what he'll say…

Earlier this month, Verizon Wireless Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo noted that the carrier had activated 4.2 million iPhones during the fourth quarter of 2011, more than doubling the previous quarter’s sales on the momentum of the iPhone 4S launch…

Back in June of last year, IHS iSuppli reported that Apple had become the world’s largest buyer of semiconductors in 2010, jumping past HP and Samsung to top the list with $17.5 billion in spending. Apple’s lead was expected to grow in 2011 on con…

Details of Adam Lashinsky’s new Inside Apple book set to debut tomorrow continue to surface, and while some of the ideas behind the company’s “Apple University” program for training the next generation of executives were previously disclosed in Lashins…

iPod nano packaging photo by iLounge

From an advance copy of Adam Lashinsky’s upcoming Inside Apple book, NetworkWorld notes an interesting bit of information about how Apple approaches retail packaging.

Perhaps it should be no surprise, given…

As noted in our forums, Apple today pushed out a new firmware update specifically targeting users of the company’s Mid-2010 13-inch MacBook Pro model. The new MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.5 brings compatibility with Lion Internet Recovery, allo…

In the upcoming Inside Apple book by Adam Lashinsky, it’s revealed that Steve Jobs had expressed interest and subsequently met with the CEO of Lytro, the makers the first light field camera. The relevant book quote posted by 9to5Mac states:The compa…

Virgin America has named one of its fleet after Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, emblazoning a popular Jobs quote “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” on the side of this Airbus A320.

Steve mentioned the phrase in his 2005 commencement address at Stanford Univ…

In one of the most spectacularly mis-prioritized state budgets in recent memory, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear (D), is suggesting over $50 million in cuts to education – while preserving $43 million in tax breaks for the Ark Encounter, a creationist amusement park centered around a life-sized Noah's Ark. The park is sponsored by Answers In Genesis, a non-profit organization that promotes a …

In his biography, Steve Jobs was so infuriated by Android’s similarities to the iPhone that he swore to spend all the money Apple had in the bank to defeat the platform. Newsweek columnist Dan Lyons passes along a rumor that Apple has spent $100 mi…

Philip Elmer-Dewitt has assembled his list of analyst expectations ahead of Apple’s quarterly earnings report Tuesday afternoon. The list includes estimates from 17 “independent” analysts and 34 “affiliated” analysts who work for large investment house…

Is a proposed Napoleon Bonaparte-themed amusement park “Napoleonland” the answer to France's economic woes?

Is a proposed Napoleon Bonaparte-themed amusement park “Napoleonland” the answer to France's economic woes?

We’ve been following the development of Apple’s first Dutch retail store for some time now, as issues over historic preservation have slowed the timetable for construction at the landmark Hirsch building in Amsterdam. But things now appear to be comin…

Apple’s new iBooks Author application enables users to make interactive iBooks on their Mac. Apple says the software allows authors to make “stunning iBooks textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books, and more for iPad.” Richard Stevens, author…

TechCrunch reports on Evi, a new Siri-like offering from True Knowledge that has launched for iOS devices [App Store] and as a beta for Android devices. While Siri provides a fair amount of integration with Apple apps and services such as reminders an…

Sony today announced (via Macworld UK) the launch of new image sensor technology that the company expects will help improve performance and shrink the size of cameras on mobile devices by later this year. The new back-illuminated complementary metal

According to new survey data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project (via VentureBeat), the share of U.S. adults owning a tablet device nearly doubled during the most recent holiday season, moving from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early Ja…

Find out more about No Name Calling Week by visiting www.nonamecallingweek.org or visit the Asheville Safe Schools for All Facebook page for more resources and information.

Country singer Dolly Parton announced plans to open a $50 million “water and snow” theme park in Nashville, Tennessee.

AllThingsD reports on a new research note from Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry claiming that customers downloaded approximately 350,000 iBooks Textbooks from the iBookstore over the first three days of availability. That performance was…

The KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence has posted this video demonstrating their patented eBook interface prototype.

The prototype is implemented on an Apple iPad but reportedly uses private Apple APIs, according to the video de…

AppleInsider claims that Apple is planning on incorporating support for the new faster 802.11ac Wi-Fi specification into products this year.The new 802.11ac standard achieves much faster wireless networking speeds than the existing 802.11n specificat…

ContactLaunch is an address book that includes complete integration with popular social networks like Facebook and Twitt…

Mapping company UpNext has released a new iPad app with its 3D mapping technology. The app shows uses points of interest and friends Foursquare check-ins to help users navigate on a 3D representation of close to 50 cities. TechCrunch, writing about t…

A new theme park near Opryland will break ground later this year becoming the first ever combined water and snow park in the U.S.

Ten One Design, makers of the Pogo Stylus, have released a magnetic stand for the iPad 2 that is nearly invisible when in use, by repurposing the magnets designed for use with Apple’s Smart Cover.

Magnus is first machine-crafted from pure aluminu…

AllThingsD share some thoughts from McGraw-Hill CEO Terry McGraw, who during a Q&A session following yesterday’s iBooks Textbooks media event described how the development was part of Steve Jobs’ vision for what textbooks should be like.Sitting and lis…

Samsung is continuing its string of Galaxy S II television ads directly targeting the iPhone with a new commercial highlighting the iPhone’s lack of built-in turn-by-turn directions. The ad contrasts that with the Galaxy S II (and other Android device…

One to lollygag? Not the Tournament of Roses. They're already planning for next year.

Noted iOS jailbreak author pod2g has teamed up with the Chronic Dev Team to release “Absinthe A5″, an enhancement to the popular Greenpois0n jailbreaking tool which adds the ability to perform an untethered jailbreak of the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 for the…

With Apple announcing its iBooks Textbooks initiative yesterday, the company has been pushing its view that the iPad can help revolutionize education by keeping students engaged with unprecedented levels of interactivity.

In an attempt to assess t…

Check out the official music video for Walang Hanggan featuring the song “Dadalhin” as performed by Bryan Termulo. Coco Martin portrays the role of Daniel in the primetime series “Walang Hanggan.” His love interest in the teleserye is Julia Montes who plays the role of Katerina. Check out the official “Daniel-Katerina” love theme featuring the

Last week, we noted that several carriers in Singapore were working to offer camera-less iPhone 4S models for users whose professions prevented them from carrying camera-equipped mobile phones. With Singapore requiring all male citizens and many perma…

Indian business newspaper Mint reports (via iPhone Hacks) that Apple may be preparing to open retail stores in India, dramatically increasing the company’s presence in the country.Apple Inc. may open its own shops following the Indian government allowi…

Dolly Parton has teamed up with Gaylord Entertainment to bring a new theme park to Nashville. Just beyond the proposed park sits a neighborhood of homes, many of which overlook the land where it will be built.

Gov. Rick Snyder hosted his first online town hall event Thursday evening and answered questions from 25 Michiganians.

Earlier today we published a story about iBook Author’s exclusivity clause which generated some confusion. To clarify, Apple is not claiming exclusive sales rights to the content of published textbooks but to the specific output format (iBooks) gen…

The legendary Dolly Parton has teamed up with Gaylord Entertainment to bring a new theme park to Nashville. The venture will consist of a water park during the summer and a snow park in the winter.

Some of my fondest memories growing up were of Opryland theme park in Nashville.

Gov. Rick Snyder hosted his first online town hall event Thursday evening and answered questions from 25 Michiganians.

Apple is planning to open a new store-within-a-store concept at the legendary Harrods department store on Brompton Road in London, according to 9to5Mac.

Harrods boasts more than 1 million square feet of selling space across 330 departments — plen…

Following today’s media event that saw the introduction of iBooks 2 with new iPad digital textbooks alongside expanded iTunes U functionality, Apple has now posted video of the event to its site. The video is also available as a podcast video downlo…

TechCrunch summarizes notes from today’s media event. Of interest, they seem to reveal that Apple’s interactive textbook format is not quite the official ePub 3 spec:Books are not technically in the EPUB format, but they borrow from it (likely EPUB…

Engadget highlights the economics of publishing iBooks Textbooks to the iBookstore, noting that paid downloads follow Apple’s traditional App Store and iBookstore model where the company takes a 30% cut of the purchase price of each book. Authors are …

Cult of Mac took a look at the size of the digital textbooks available on iBooks after today’s education-focused media event. File sizes range from Pearson’s 793MB Environmental Science up to a hefty 2.77GB for Biology.

- Pearson’s Environmental…

Engadget has posted a hands-on video of the iPad’s interactive digital textbooks in the press demo section of Apple’s education-focused media event today, and they were impressed:

Interacting with the books is a generally intuitive combination of tapp…

In the second half of Apple’s education-focused media event today, the company turned its attention to iTunes U, the company’s free educational podcast section in the iTunes Store. Eddy Cue took the stage to announce that over 1,000 universities are cu…

At its education-focused media event today, Apple introduced iBooks 2, an updated version of the company’s e-book software for iOS devices. The update comes as part of a push into interactive digital textbooks in partnership with a number of major pub…

Today, during their education press event, Apple announced the availability of the iBooks Author App that allows users to create interactive iBooks on their Mac.Now anyone can create stunning iBooks textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books,…

SAN FRANCISCO, California: Social media giant Facebook released dozens of new applications on Wednesday to let users catalogue every aspect of their lives, from movies to books to food to fashion, and share them with friends.

Facebook users, prepare for even more sharing. At an event in San Francisco on Wednesday night, Facebook unveiled the first batch of new apps from 60 partner companies enabled by its Open Graph application interface tool (API), which was announced in September and just came out of beta. The apps span a wide range of activities and interests, but one theme runs throughout: sharing everything you …

Apple today is holding its education-focused media event where it is widely expected to introduce a new push into digital textbooks. The event is scheduled to kick off at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City at 10:00 AM Eastern / 7:00 Pacific.

A…

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tours4Fun and Hop2 are sponsoring a new contest featuring a 4-Day Orlando Theme Park Vacation, including airfare. Enter by “Liking” the Tours4Fun Facebook!

Citroen has launched a competition for a consumer to win a DS5 test drive weekend in the south of France.

Citroen has launched a competition for a consumer to win a DS5 test drive weekend in the south of France.

Social media giant Facebook released dozens of new applications to let users catalogue every aspect of their lives, from movies to books to food to fashion, and share them with friends.

SAN FRANCISCO — Social media giant Facebook released dozens of new applications Wednesday to let users catalogue every aspect of their lives, from movies to books to food to fashion, and share them with friends.

Antisemitic discourse is more acceptable now than at any time since the 1930s. I just can't laugh it off It has emerged that students from the London School of Economics, while on a skiing trip last December, played a Nazi-themed party game . It was the same game that, when promoted on Facebook by students from Huddersfield University in 2009, won 12,000 followers. And it was similar in theme to …

With the introduction of new iPhone data plans from AT&T, here’s a look at the data plans from the three providers that natively sell the iPhone in the United States.

AT&T:

- $20/month for 300MB data with a $20 charge for each additional …

AT&T today announced new smartphone data plans with larger data allocations, the first update to AT&T’s plans since June of 2010. The plans kick in this Sunday, January 22.

“Customers are using more data than ever before,” said David Christopher, chie…

AppleInsider reports that it received a tip earlier this week claiming that Apple’s digital textbook project rumored for unveiling tomorrow has been developed internally under the code name “Bliss”. The source also indicated that the project was inspi…

In the past 5 years, Apple’s push into the enterprise has been led by the iPhone and the iPad. Corporate IT departments, long dominated by the BlackBerry, are becoming more receptive to iOS products, especially when users are given the choice about whi…

Relations between Washington and Teheran have been bad for the past three decades, but it seems like we are now on the brink of something deadly and long-lasting.

From sailor suits to sorcerer hats, Mickey Mouse has donned many unique looks over the years.

Take a look at New Fantasyland inside Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort as it moves from concept renderings to actual construction.

Last week, research firm NPD released data showing that Apple’s iOS had significantly closed the gap on Android in new U.S. smartphone sales in October and November, narrowing Android’s 34 percentage-point lead to just four points in the wake of the iP…

Bits and pieces of Apple’s announcement plans for its education-focused media event to be held tomorrow are continuing to flow in, and Bloomberg now weighs in with its sources indicating that the company’s new publishing tools will have a strong focus …

Fortune publishes a lengthy excerpt from Adam Lashinsky’s forthcoming book, Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired — and Secretive — Company Really Works, highlighting the company’s famous secrecy and how its organizational structure and policies f…

One week after the previous developer seed, Apple late yesterday pushed out Build 11D46 of OS X 10.7.3 to registered developers. Apple continues to report no known issues in the seed notes, and asks developers to focus their testing on iCloud Document…

DALLAS , Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –  www.pumpyouup.com announces the release of their New Year's music collection of free music downloads. The New Year's theme is techno flavored with a touch of dub. …

Even in a troubled economy, the outlook for project management continues to be positive. That has prompted the Project Management Professionals (PMPs) at Cheetah Learning (http://www.CheetahLearning.com) to use everything from Twitter and Facebook to podcasts and PDFs to encourage job seekers to consider project management training as a way of enhancing their proficiency portfolio.Honolulu, HI …

According to the Wall Street Journal, Roger Rosner is the executive in charge of Apple’s digital textbook tools. According to his LinkedIn page, Rosner is a Vice President for Productivity Applications at Apple, and has been with the company since 2001…

Since at least 2004, Apple has offered a rebate program that has typically offered users a $100 rebate when they purchase a new Mac and an eligible printer directly from Apple. The program was typically offered as a three-month program that was co…

AllThingsD reports on new research from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) analyzing the impact of the secondary market for the iPhone, the portion of used iPhones that are resold or given away when users upgrade to the latest models. The …

Incase has introduced a new version of its popular Snap Case made with a heat-activated thermochromatic finish. The $35 pink Thermo Snap Case changes color when held, like heat-activated t-shirts from the 80′s.

Incase may be the most recent c…

Contest will decide the brand's commercial creative for the big game.

Contest will decide the brand's commercial creative for the big game.

Apple’s education-focused media event isn’t until Thursday, but Japanese blog Macotakara reports that Apple is already making plans for an early February event to introduce the iPad 3 ahead of an early March launch. The event is said to potentially al…

ADVISORY — What:

The question of whether Apple will continue to offer the existing iPad 2 as a lower-cost option alongside the forthcoming iPad 3 has been the subject of a fair amount of rumor and speculation, but if new display panel shipment plans provided to Digitim…

Late last year, AT&T began throttling the data speeds of its highest-use unlimited data customers, knocking down the ability of the top 5% of its users to consume data for the remainder of a billing period once they hit certain thresholds. While AT&T …

Bloomberg reports that Apple has filed a new lawsuit in Germany against Samsung, seeking to ban sales of ten different smartphone models over alleged design infringement.Apple Inc. (AAPL) filed another suit in Germany, seeking to ban sales of Samsung…

As we noted last September, Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky has written a new book entitled Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired — and Secretive — Company Really Works, an unauthorized look at the inner workings of Apple. The book is due for release on…

The cake mix maker's in-house kitchen staff is ready to interact with fans and followers.

The cake mix maker's in-house kitchen staff is ready to interact with fans and followers.

Apple’s education-focused media event is scheduled for this Thursday, and more details seem to be leaking out. Earlier this evening, the Wall Street Journal reported that McGraw-Hill has been working with Apple on this project since last June. Now, …

Earlier today, we noted that iTunes Match had begun going live in Netherlands, following last week’s news of an agreement between Apple and Dutch copyright oversight group Buma/Stemra.

But as Apple now details on its iTunes Match availability page, …

The Wall Street Journal takes a look at Apple’s plans for its education-focused media event scheduled for this Thursday, and while the report is a bit short on specifics, it does examine some of the possibilities and demonstrates how the textbook indus…

SPRING CREEK – Familiar faces in different places is a theme for the Spring Creek soccer programs.

From the numerous statues to the historical architecture found in various buildings, artwork is found all over the ISU campus. Exhibitions, such as an upcoming photography showcase, show off art creat

Less than a week after Dutch music copyright organization Buma/Stemra announced that it had struck a deal with Apple regarding iTunes Match, the service has now gone live in the Dutch iTunes Store.

An iTunes Match link is not yet showing up on the…

Earlier this month, we reported on Hong Kong company In Icons, which was attempting to release a realistic-looking Steve Jobs figurine. According to reports, Apple was at the time threatening legal action over the posable figurine, and PC World now no…

Das Keyboard, a popular keyboard manufacturer that specializes in “clicky” mechanical keyboards like the Apple Extended Keyboard or the IBM Model M, has announced a Macintosh-edition of its Model S Professional keyboard.

Das’s keyboards are a fav…

Pocket-lint reports that Utah company HzO, which was showing off its “WaterBlock” technology for providing water resistance to mobile devices at last week’s CES, has said it is talking to Apple about the possibility of including the technology in futur…

ifoAppleStore reports on an article from French magazine Aix en Dialogue noting that Apple is preparing to build an interesting new store in Aix-en-Provence, France. While the store appears to be a relatively small one by Apple’s standards, the stri…

TV5 wants to know where to find the best sledding hill in Mid-Michigan.

In a preliminary ruling (PDF) today, the ITC ruled that Motorola’s smartphones do not violate the Apple patents at issue, though the decision still needs to be approved by the full six-member ITC panel.

On this date, the ALJ issued an initial determi…

Work continues on the Disney Fantasy in Germany. The ship will sail her maiden voyage from Port Canaveral in late March.

Work continues on the Disney Fantasy in Germany. The ship will sail her maiden voyage from Port Canaveral in late March.

Bloomberg briefly reports that Apple’s manufacturing partners have indeed begun on production of the iPad 3, with a ramp-up to full capacity taking place by February ahead of a March launch for the device. The report corroborates circulating rumors …

Italian site iSpazio notes [Google translation] that Apple has made a small but helpful tweak to the iTunes Store when accessed from a computer, now allowing users to access information on content such as songs, albums, videos, apps, and books via a po…

In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC, former Apple CEO John Sculley was asked about Jobs killing off the Newton, and what he thought of the product in retrospect. Sculley admitted that the Newton was “clearly too ambitious” but nailed “many of the …

Earlier today, Apple released its 2012 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report, an annual report that was supplemented for the first time by a public list of over 150 companies that supply components and manufacturing services to the company.

As rel…

Last August, Apple expanded its recycling program in the United States to allow customers to turn in their used iPhones and iPads for Apple gift cards.

As noted by Macworld UK and Macerkopf.de [Google translation], Apple has once again expanded …

The promise is seductive. Two of the biggest technology companies on the planet are combining forces to give their adoring fans free iPads and iPhones? Yes! And all you have to do is give up all your personal information for that chance.

The stream of environmental and labor rights news from Apple continues today with the company’s release of its annual Supplier Responsibility Progress Report for 2012. The report details efforts to oversee working conditions and environmental responsi…

Bloomberg reports that Apple has agreed to allow the Fair Labor Association (FLA) to access its suppliers’ facilities to monitor workplace conditions in the wake of publicity surrounding worker suicides at Apple’s primary manufacturing partner Foxcon…

The London Evening Standard reports (via GigaOM) that Apple is requiring cable supplier Volex to spend up to $6 million retooling its production lines to eliminate halogens from the power and USB cables used in the company’s products. The move wil…

Milan Menswear Fashion Week looks set to have a Hollywood theme, as it has been revealed Oscar winner Adrien Brody will be taking to the runway for Prada's catwalk show Sunday.

Milan Menswear Fashion Week looks set to have a Hollywood theme, as it has been revealed Oscar winner Adrien Brody will be taking to the runway for Prada's catwalk show Sunday.

The Jakarta Globe reports that Apple’s three carrier partners in Singapore are making plans to offer iPhone 4S models lacking cameras, with the move said to be targeting members of the military who are prohibited from bringing camera-equipped phones on…

Following early morning chaos at Apple’s Sanlitun retail store in Beijing that prevented Apple from opening the store for the iPhone 4S launch, Reuters reports that the company has temporarily halted in-store sales of the device at all five of its reta…

Last weekend I visited what felt like a Prague-themed bar in Prague itself. Inadvertently this little excursion has sparked my curiosity about the actual internationally themed bars scattered around the city.

OnLive’s virtual Windows 7 / Office app for the iPad has arrived on the App Store. As we reported earlier this week, OnLive Desktop offers iPad users access to full-featured versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The applications are …

Reports coming in from M.I.C gadget and AppleInsider claim that Apple’s Chinese launch of the iPhone 4S is not going particularly smoothly, with violence breaking out ahead of the opening at Apple’s Sanlitun retail store in Beijing. According to rep…

While Apple moves forward on plans for its new 2.8 million square foot corporate campus in Cupertino, the company continues to grow with the success of its products. Apple’s interim space needs led the company to lease 373,000 square feet in Cupertino…

LOS ANGELES , Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — When 11-year old, singer/songwriter Miranda Finn wrote a song and posted a video on YouTube, she had no idea her song, “Maybe I Can Change this World,” …

CNET yesterday reported that Verizon has announced a “hard requirement” that all future smartphones released on the carrier support 4G LTE technology for faster data speeds. That requirement has naturally led to speculation that the carrier has all bu…

Patently Apple reports on a newly-published patent application from Apple describing the use of motion sensors to create a virtual three-dimensional interface for iOS devices. Utilizing concepts similar those found in a number of existing augmented re…

Reuters reports that Target has confirmed its plans to launch “store-within-a-store” concepts for Apple products in 25 of its stores around the United States. The announcement comes alongside a broader effort called “the Shops at Target” that will off…

Even as some sources are claiming that iPad 3 production is underway with Sharp providing the displays for the device, Korea’s Electronic Times reports (via Patently Apple) that Sharp has failed to meet Apple’s requirements and is out as a display supp…

With close to twelve hours still to go until opening time, Tech in Asia reports that Apple’s five retail stores in China are seeing huge lines for the iPhone 4S, with stores said to already be seeing hundreds of people in line.At the two stores in Beij…

Google’s “your world” theme is carried into the gaming realm with the announcement of an original title powered by WebGL. The title will be coming to Google+ Games exclusively in February 2012.

As Pinterest positions itself to be the new Tumblr — or better yet, Facebook — it's about time we figured out what exactly this new-ish social network does.  We say -ish because the network debuted around Thanksgiving 2009. Yet, it didn't gain relevance until it went “viral,” as TechCrunch put it, and jumped from 40,000 unique visitors a month to 3.2 million in one year. The site's still …

Research firm Gartner today released its preliminary personal computer shipment data for the fourth quarter of 2011, offering up a picture of market performance during the quarter. With year-over-year unit growth of over 20%, Apple was the only one of …

Here in Southwest Washington, it seems nearly everyone is on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. But most of those users are individuals. Businesses, on the other hand, have been much slower to embrace the potential power of social networking, experts say.

VentureBeat reports that Sony will be bringing its “Music Unlimited” streaming service to the iPhone and iPod touch within the next three months, looking to make inroads into Apple’s ecosystem that has been dominated on the music side by iTunes.The ele…

Apple’s big education announcement may be January 19th in New York City, but that doesn’t mean Apple is the only company innovating in the educational space. University of Michigan professor Perry Samson has developed an iPad app called LectureTools th…

Infinity Field HD, a space shooter from Forzefield Studios, has been updated with extensive Joypad support. Joypad is a separate app that allows gamers to control supported games on an iPad or Mac from their iPhone, turning it into a wireless virtual c…

The Loop reports that Apple has sent out media invitations for an “education announcement” to be made at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City on Thursday, January 19.

Word of the event first surfaced last week, and sources have indicated that th…

With the launch of the iPhone 4S, T-Mobile USA is now the only one of the four major U.S. carriers to not offer the iPhone, due in large part to the carrier’s use of the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum band for its 3G network, a situation tha…

Japanese blog Macotakara reports that Apple’s manufacturing partners Foxconn and Pegatron have begun production on the next-generation iPad, with Foxconn once again bearing approximately 85% of the load. According to the report, the initial production…

At CES, Bullettrain announced their new eXpress keyboard platform that offers a single enclosure for the Magic Trackpad and Apple Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard.

The enclosure mimics the layout of an Apple laptop, placing the trackpad below the key…

Behringer is on hand at CES 2012, displaying its enormous iNuke Boom iPhone speaker dock that was announced last month. The over-the-top accessory is 8 feet wide and 4 feet tall and weighs over 700 pounds. Billed as the loudest iPhone speaker dock, t…

Bloomberg reports that Apple has confirmed last month’s news from Israel that the company had acquired flash memory firm Anobit. The confirmation came in the form of Apple’s standard boilerplate statement used in addressing acquisitions, and did not i…

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. , Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Yoshiki, the classically trained multi-instrumentalist and leader of one of Japan ‘s most successful rock groups, X Japan, will compose the theme for this …

Following in the footsteps of yesterday’s release of iOS 5.1 Beta 3, Apple today seeded a new version of OS X 10.7.3 to registered Mac developers. The new version, termed Build 11D42, comes three weeks after the previous build, but the development tea…

With Kodak on the brink of filing for bankruptcy as it pursues an auction of its patent portfolio in order to remain solvent, the company today announced that it has filed two new lawsuits alleging patent infringement by Apple and HTC.A complaint filed…

While Apple doesn’t participate at CES and has ended its involvement in trade shows in general, the company naturally continues to keep tabs on what its competition is up to and CES is a prime event for new product introductions. paidContent has in fa…

Apple has long used Imagination Technologies’ graphics processing unit (GPU) technology in its iOS devices, currently utilizing the company’s PowerVR SGX543MP2 in the A5 system-on-a-chip found in the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S.

Last June, Imagination Tech…

Last month, Apple was rumored to be preparing to launch a ‘Retina’-resolution 15-inch MacBook Pro early this year carrying a resolution of 2880×1800 pixels. The rumors are also being fueled in part by OS X 10.7.3 beta versions showing evidence of cont…

Showtime has joined fellow premium television network HBO in offering an iPad app to stream video to its subscribers. The free app, called Showtime Anytime, serves up Showtime’s original programming — TV series like Homeland, Dexter and Weeds, among o…

Back in 2010, an Apple patent publication was published revealing the company’s concept for an iMac supporting both mouse-driven and touch-based input with a hinged display arm allowing the screen to transition from an upright position to a horizontal …

Last August, we reported that Village Tronic was working on a Thunderbolt version of its ViDock PCI Express expansion chassis that serves as a docking hub complete with external graphics card for high-end performance. With Thunderbolt-equipped peripher…

Back in September, we reported on a leaked document from cable and Internet provider Comcast revealing details on the company’s forthcoming “AnyPlay” live television streaming service. While Comcast is not the first cable provider to bring such a prod…

Taiwanese publication Digitimes, which gained some notice late last week for its claim that Apple is preparing the iPad 3 for a March release ahead of an “iPad 4″ launch just six months later, is adding additional color to its rumors with a new repor…

Adobe today announced the release of a free public beta of Photoshop Lightroom 4, the company’s digital photo management and post-production software. The software is the primary competitor to Apple’s Aperture and a popular option for photographers….

Last month, Apple launched its first major international expansion of iTunes Match, expanding on the November U.S. debut by bringing the feature to Brazil in mid-December and then sixteen additional countries just a few days later.

Apple is clearly …

iLounge, which just last week updated its claims regarding details of the next-generation iPad with mention of improved cameras, today reports that it has viewed what appear to be at least prototype parts for the device.

The parts, which seem to inc…

The Abraham Lincoln Association will celebrate the 16th president’s 203rd birthday in February with two days of presentations on the theme of Lincoln and the Civil War.

Former silver-screen starlet Kim Novak unloads on the current Oscar frontrunner for borrowing the theme from Alfred Hitchock’s 1958 film

LONDON , Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Pacific Interactive , a company that’s brought social gaming to hundreds of thousands, announces that its flagship gaming application, House of Fun, has achieved …

Several Apple-related apps and accessories are being previewed at CES 2012. Here are a couple of the more interesting ones we’ve run across.

Swivl

Swivl is a motion tracking mount for your iPhone. We previously covered the announcement of …

Corning officially announced their followup to Gorilla Glass today at CES 2012.

Apple has previously used the strengthened glass in their iOS devices. In 2010, David Pogue relayed a claim from a scientist that Apple was the #1 customer for Goril…

Disney begins its inevitable assault on Facebook through its subsidiary Marvel, with the upcoming Q1 release of Marvel: Avengers Alliance , a new game for the platform developed by Playdom. It’s a “combat role playing game experience with dozens of familiar Marvel superheroes and villains to be collected,” in which players can train their stable of Marvel superfolks to upgrade their abilities …

Apple has posted its 2012 Proxy Statement (PDF) on its investor relations page. The proxy statement is released ahead of the annual stockholders meeting, and details voting procedures, background and compensation information on the company’s directors,…

Video game streaming company OnLive has announced a free, streaming, virtual Microsoft Windows 7 desktop app for the iPad. The OnLive Desktop app, announced at CES, will eventually expand to other platforms — including the Mac. Users will have access …

Video game streaming company OnLive has announced a free, streaming, virtual Microsoft Windows 7 desktop app for the iPad. The OnLive Desktop app, announced at CES, will eventually expand to other platforms — including the Mac. Users will have access …