Apple has done a phenomenal job at marketing iPads and iPods to school districts accross the United States. The company has done such a phenomenal job that most schools do not know what to do with them.
One school district that has struck the nation by surprise is McAllen ISD, located in south Texas. According to The Monitor, this “district has drawn praise and criticism for its decision to spend more than $20 million –> Read more
Rumors will finally subside tomorrow with the announcement for new and madly hyped iPad 3. We are all suspecting that the new iPad is going to be between 1 and 1.5 millimeters thicker and boast many of our favorite iPhone 4S features. It looks like Apple will have much of the worlds attention tomorrow with their announcement. Apple’s share price closed $2.90 short at $530.26 today at the end trading hours. –> Read more
There is speculation that Apple will be revealing a mini version of its infamous iPad in the second half of this year. The “iPad mini” is rumored to have a 7.1-inch display an will help regain any of the iPads market share that Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet have closed in on. –> Read more
IDC revealed the top list of mobile makers for the fourth quarter and the top three global smartphone makers are Nokia, Samsung and Apple. Looking into some intresting figures. Apple’s third-place with only 8.7 percent of the market, while the giants of Korea and Finland –> Read more
In this post we show you the steps to install Siri on iPhone 4 or iPod touch 4G. Thanks to JBN. –> Read more
During the company’s announcement on Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple TV is “doing extremely well.” The fruit company sold a record 1.4 million units in the December quarter, though Tim Cook said the product is still just a hobby. “We still classify this as a hobby, but we continue to add things to it,I
A Google executive has been chatting to Wired, who has spilled the beans as to the companies odd views on tablets. The interview was with Android‘s head of user experience Matias Duarte, who’s just spearheaded the Android Design website, which aims to try and help developers to add a touch to their apps. –> Read more
The iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreak that was launched on Friday with the tool called Absinthe, received overwhelming response from the Apple enthusiast within three days of the launch. According to a post from the Chronic Dev Team, over the last three days, Absinthe has been used to jailbreak around 953,232 –> Read more
After the announcement of iBooks 2 in the Apple Education event, Global Equities Research’s proprietary monitoring system reported a very intresting figure of the number of downloads of the digital textbooks. Sure Apple didnt convince everybody to digitalize the education world but it did helped them download the textbooks. Also the free ebook creation tool, which is Mac-only and requires OS X Lion, was apparently downloaded 90,000 times since it was released on Thursday. –> Read more
The Walt Disney family indirectly confirmed in its proxy statement that the Steve Jobs family or his trust wont be asking a position in its share holder meeting which is going to be held on 13th March. Although the family is the largest individual shareholder with a 7.7 percent stake, no mention is made of them in the filing –> Read more
This is the first complaint filled against Android 4.0. The patent was filed by Apple against Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The claim made is that the Galaxy Nexus infringes upon Apple’s own slide-to-unlock utility model. Samsung’s defense points to a device from Sweden known as the Neonode, –> Read more
“Education has always been in Apple’s DNA.” Now Apple has released a new way to help the students in the classroom. Apple has finally introduced a whole new method of how textbooks will be used and how students can take notes. Apple released a video that explains why is it necessary to change the method of how we teach. –> Read more
Well folks its been announced that yet again Apple will be suing Samsung Germany. This is not the first time that Apple has filed for patent lawsuits against Samsung in Germany. Last year when Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab 10.1 Apple filed suits saying that the samsung made tablet was clearly a copycat of the iPad 2. –> Read more
Tap tap tap has released some amazing figures for their popular photography app Camera+. The app has reached its sixth million download milestone and with over 950,000 downloads in the past month alone. Last June they were at a total of 3 million downloads. –> Read more
Word on the street has it that an untethered iPhone 4S jailbreak is already on its way,and will be released to the masses in a few days time. pod2g is the man behind this attempt, where the iOS community would be indebted to him for his new jailbreak tools that are capable of supporting both the latest hardware and iOS –> Read more
WhatsApp messanger is no longer available for download on the iTunes app store. The application, which allowed users to send free instant messages to other smart phones, was one of our favorite IM apps for the iPhone. Besides supporting instant messages , WhatsApp also allowed users to send images , video and sound files, and was available for Android, BlackBerry OS and Nokia handsets and of course iOS. –> Read more
Apple said it is suspending iphone 4S sales in China to protect its staff. The crowed who queued in the freezing temprature was angry enough to start the Riot. It was noted that many in the crowed were not the normal customers but were workers put in place by resellers who wanted to buy up devices and sell them on at a profit. The angry customers also threw the eggs at the company’s flagship store in Beijing.
The same type of incident was observed when the iPad 2 went on sale in China. Regarding the incident Apple spokesperson said that the risk is too great forcing it to halt 4S sales for the time being.
The rumored event for late January in New York has been confirmed on 19th Jan at the Guggenheim Museum. Apple sent the invitation to the media claiming to have an “education announcement”. AllThingsD, the WSJ-owned blog that had spread the original rumor about Apple’s NYC event, has been told that “this is an effort in which Jobs had been involved with in the months prior to his death.
Walter Isaacson wrote in his biography on Steve Jobs that “He had three things that he wanted to reinvent: the television, textbooks and photography,” It is belived that the event will discuss Steve’s dream about reinventing Textbook learning via iPad. –> Read more
Do you remember how Angry birds made the record for the highest selling game for iOS and Android devices? Well soon Infinity Blade will be in the same line. The Infinity Blade game series brought a huge profit for its developers proving that mobile games can become viable frenchies just like Andgry Birds did. –> Read more
