Author: Megan Lavey-Heaton

Sister site Engadget and other sites are starting to get a hands-on look at Apple’s CarPlay system, one of the holdovers from last year’s WWDC. As Engadget observes:

The first thing we noticed is how speedy everything is. Apps load quickly, and…

TUAW made a return to the annual Toy Fair at the Javits Center in New York, the annual sneak peek at what your kids (young and young at heart) will be clamoring to buy during the next year. Some of the items are available now, but Toy Fair gives…

Adding fuel to the new products speculation, AppleInsider noticed that Apple has posted an opening for an “Instrumentation Design/NPI Engineer.” This position, AI states, is geared toward the creation of new products. Tim Cook, during the most recent…

It’s the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You’ll get some of the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what’s happening in the Apple world.

You can listen to today’s…

While Tim Cook was not a guest at this year’s State of the Union address, President Barack Obama did signal out Apple — alongside Microsoft, Sprint, and Verizon — for helping to launch an initiative to get high-speed broadband services to nearly …

Those who bought the June 2013 model of the MacBook Air say that they have constant WiFi issues, with one thread in Apple’s support community logging more than 130 pages. Issues include latency, dropped packets and network connections, and unstable …

Good afternoon! It’s the day before Christmas, which means a lot of people are focused on time off and their families. But, there’s still a bit of news out there! Here’s what’s going on in the Apple world today.

Former Apple executive Ken Segall …

Good afternoon! Here’s what’s going on in the Apple world this afternoon. If you’ve missed our morning news roundup, you can check it out here.

Apple has confirmed with AllThingsD that mapping company BroadMap and Evernote competitor Catch were …

The iPhone is usually the item you have at hand when you need to make a quick note, and Knot takes advantage of this by making it as easy as possible to leave yourself a reminder — tying the proverbial piece of string around your finger.

Knot goes …

Did you miss the announcement of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, or was everything going by too fast to absorb? Catch up with TUAW’s coverage of today’s Apple special event.

General coverage

September 2013 Apple event liveblog: the new iPhone party
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It’s the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You’ll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what’s happening in the Apple world.

You can listen to today’s Apple …

Apple decided to push a lot of updates this afternoon, most of them related to a Java update that disables the Java SE 6 applet plug-in. By disabling the plug-in, Apple is allowing consumers to re-enable it on a case-by-case basis. Apple has provi…

For the TUAW staff, Macworld/iWorld 2013 enabled a good chunk of our staff to get together in a way that we normally can’t because of distance. We had fun, as we do every year, and not everything we see on the show floor made it into a news articl…

The rest of us will have to wait until Friday, but a few lucky reviewers have already gotten their hands on the iPad mini to give it a test run. Here’s what journalists and tech bloggers have to saw about the svelte mini:

Jim Dalrymple at The Lo…