Author: Peter Cohen

The Bay Area Council has posthumously recognized Steve Jobs with its Business Hall of Fame award, which it gives out annually to recognize “the accomplishments and contributions of Bay Area business titans who have built some of the world’s most rec…

Apple posted a maintenance update to iTunes for Mac and Windows today. The new version, 11.1.3, is available for download from Apple’s web site and through the Software Update system preference. According to Apple’s release notes: This version of iTu…

2K and Firaxis Games announced Tuesday that the new Sid Meier game will launch on iOS on November 7th for $4.99. Sid Meier’s Air Patrol: Pacific Skies brings you turn-based airplane dogfighting action circa World War II, and unlike the first game in t…

Apple’s making it easier than ever to share movies you create in iMovie with a new feature called iMovie Theater. Introduced at Tuesday’s Apple Event, iMovie Theater is one of many updates that Apple has incorporated into its iLife apps. Now Apple has…

OS X Mavericks is free, but Mavericks Server still costs you – but it’s only $19.99. Apple released OS X Server late Tuesday after posting Mavericks to the Mac App Store. OS Server works like an application, running on top of the core Mavericks operat…

As shown at the Apple Event earlier in the day, Apple late on Tuesday released updated iWorks and iLife apps for iOS. Those include Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand – all updated to version 2.0. The new apps have been reworked to…

OS X Mavericks has gone Golden Master and we’re expecting to be released later this month, perhaps around the Apple event scheduled for next week. In the interim, Apple has put the word out to registered developers to get their apps ready for the new …

Nest, the “learning thermostat” maker founded by former Apple’s senior vice president of its iPod division, is reportedly working on a smart smoke detector, according to former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin. Kara Swisher of AllThingsD ad…

German hacker collective the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) grabbed headlines after showing a method to fool the iPhone 5s’s Touch ID fingerprint scanner, but it’s nothing that ordinary people need to worry about too much, according to a security expert. C…

Smile Software has announced the release of PDFPen Scan +, a new iOS app that enables you to use the camera on your iOS device to scan documents, and read them in using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). You can scan multiple pages into a single doc…

It’s easy to forget, if you spend your day reading online info about Apple products, that not everyone who uses an iPhone or an iPad is a hardcore user. Many of Apple’s customers don’t check tech blogs, so iOS 7 – and its many changes – came as a big …

Those major media outlets, technology sites, and journalists who had early review units of the iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s have now posted their reviews. Here are the links and a snippet of their takes. Jim Dalrymple of The Loop says the iPhone 5s and iPh…

Blizzard has had a change of heart about the Auction House system it developed for its popular dungeon crawl game Diablo III. The company plans to shut down the auction house system in the game on March 18, 2014. When we initially designed and implem…

At some point in the next 24 hours or so, Apple should unleash the first public release of iOS 7 upon the world. Millions – and I mean millions – of iOS device users will install it. But I encourage you to exercise caution. Why? Let me explain. The hy…

Apple on Tuesday released iBooks 3.1.1, a maintenance update to their ebook reading software for iOS devices. Apple’s information on what’s changed is scant: This version of iBooks improves compatibility with iOS and iCloud. Free – Download now Iboo…

Players of the popular Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game League of Legends will need to change their passwords at some point in the next 24 hours, advises developer Riot Games. The company says that the account information for their North Am…