Author: Jordan Kahn

While a native Google Maps iOS app has yet to hit the App Store, Nokia said today it plans to release a new free maps for iOS under the “Here” brand in the coming weeks. “Here” is a cross platform effort for mapping applications that the company described as “the first location cloud to deliver the […]

According to a report from the Silicon Valley BizBlog, Apple picked up more real estate in and around Cupertino, Calif., after scooping up over 315,000 sq. ft. of office space in Sunnyvale in January. Apple signed leases for two new buildings: a 57,479-square-foot building at 5425 Stevens Creek Blvd. in Santa Clara, and a 11,552 […]

Retail Sails (via Fortune) is out today with its list of U.S. retail stores that have the highest sales per square foot, and not so surprisingly, Apple has once again beat out No. 2 Tiffany’s for the top spot. Apple Stores came in with an average of $6,050 per square foot, over $3,000 more than […]

Skype for iPhone version 4.1.2: The Skype iOS app finally gets official support for the iPhone 5′s taller display this morning: -Support for iPhone 5 display. -Bug fixes. Adobe Photoshop Express version 2.6: A nice update for Adobe’s Photoshop Express iOS app brings new sharing and editing features including the ability to “tap to eliminate red-eye” and […]

Kentucky-based regional carrier Bluegrass Cellular originally had plans to offer the iPhone 5 at the end of September following its launch, but today announced it will finally have the device to offer its customers starting Friday, November 2nd. Like it and other regional carriers have done in the past with the latest iPhone models, it […]

Like it does for the 15-inch model, OWC announced today it is offering its 480GB Mercury Aura Pro SSD for Apple’s new 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro. As noted by OWC, the $580 aftermarket upgrade option will cost you approximately $220 less than Apple’s comparable 512GB built-to-order upgrade, and will also allow you to keep your […]

Images via Stephen M. Katz | The Virginian-Pilot A McDonald’s franchise owner in Virginia Beach, Va., decided to install mounted iPads in his store for customers to use while eating—something 20 locations in Europe have already done. The Virginia-Pilot (via CNET) has the full story.

LaCie issued a press release today announcing an update to its Little Big Disk Thunderbolt series that now includes a pair of 2.5-inch SATA III SSDs. The new Little Big Disk provides read speeds up to 635MB/s, according to the company, approximately a 33 percent increase from the previous generation. It is also capable of daisy […]

A new iPhone 5 dock being sold through China-based iPhone5mod.com could be the first third-party product to ship with Apple’s new Lightning connector. Earlier reports indicated that accessory manufacturers would have trouble producing Lightning-compatible products due to a unique authentication chip Apple is using in the new standard. According to reports from M.I.C Gadget and […]

While still behind Coca-Cola, which retained its #1 spot from last year’s report, Apple is one of Interbrand’s top risers as the #2 brand in its 2012 Best Global Brands Report. Apple sits just above IBM, Google, and Microsoft with a brand value of 76, 568 million, up 129{813a954d5e225a1509f22204ece89c855080ce25555f20805f61bed63cbfde3b} from last year’s study. You can […]

We posted a link to a rare audio recording in August of Steve Jobs speaking at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen. A roughly 20-minute audio recording of Jobs’ speech was available from the Center for Design Innovation’s website. In the recording, Jobs predicted the explosion of the personal computer market, the need for better […]

For the introduction of the refreshed Nest thermostat, cofounder of the company and former iPhone engineer Matt Rogers sat with Kevin Rose for the new Foundation video series on TechCrunch. After speaking about some of the updates included in the upgraded Nest hardware, Rogers talks about his time at Apple in 2004 as an intern […]

A new report from research firm Localytics today suggested sales of Samsung’s Galaxy S III have been growing on a weekly basis with huge spikes following the Samsung/Apple trial and the iPhone 5 introduction. The full story is at 9to5Google.com. Related articles …and Samsung files suit against Apple over iPhone 5 (9to5mac.com) Samsung mocks iPhone 5 […]

We have been following Facebook’s improvements to its SDK for iOS in recent months. In July, Facebook released a beta featuring iOS 6 Facebook integration and a new Dev Center for iOS developers. It has maintained that beta alongside version 3.0 of its SDK up until today with the official release of Facebook SDK 3.1 […]

Many of the third-party transit and maps iOS app developers have been updating their apps following the launch of iOS 6 to include integration as a routing service in Apple’s new Maps app. Many have also been hoping to pick up some new users looking for alternatives, as Apple abandons Google’s backend and faces some […]

As always, we’ll update the list below as more updates hit the App Store… Play BlackJack version 1.2: Developer RockLive has been known to partner with celebrities in the past for titles such as Mike Tyson Main event, Cristiano Ronaldo’s iOS game, and Usain Bolt’s “Bolt!“. One of its other popular titles gets an update […]