Apple Products and News

I’ve mentioned this several times already on the iPhone & iPad Live podcast, in the new iPad round-table, and on Twitter, but I wanted to get something up here as well. The Retina display is great, but I’m not a designer or a photographer and I still read more on a computer and on paper than I do on my iPad. I have a Wi-Fi iPad so LTE isn’t a consideration for me. Dictation is great and will make a huge difference to people who prefer to, or need to, talk rather than type. But for me, none of that is truly compelling. For me, instead of supporting a double density display or a faster network, I would have loved the extra power of that Apple A5X chipset and that extra RAM to do one thing and one thing only — make my iPad faster.

One of the new iPad’s major selling points was its 4G LTE speeds, which Apple highlighted in its advertisements both in North America and around the globe. Unfortunately, this angered carriers in Australia and Europe, because the third generation iPad does not connect at 4G speeds on networks outside of the U.S. and Canada. After […]

A group of educational publishers, technology companies and two government agencies held a meeting in Washington DC today to promote a plan for transitioning US classrooms at the K-12 level to digital textbook over the next five years. The plan, being …

Google continues to enjoy a unique position in the mobile space — they make money off of pretty much every platform. If you use their own, freely licensed Android platform, they earn revenue off of advertising. If you use anyone else’s platform, including Apple’s iOS on the iPhone or iPad, Google still earns revenue off of advertising.

Apple may bring the latest iPad model to Taiwan as early as May, now that the Wi-Fi and LTE versions of the third-generation product have passed certification by the National Communications Commission, reports Taipei’s Economic Daily News. The testing …

The Canadian government wouldn’t try to block a foreign acquisition of RIM, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Friday. While he would prefer that RIM thrive as a Canadian company, he wouldn’t interject to make it that way. Those at RIM were “ma…

Tim Cook is the CEO of CEOs, Apple is the consumer brand of consumer brands (in Japan), and e-books are the, uh, books of books.

Over the years, Apple has consistently followed through on its strong commitment to accessibility in the development of new technologies and products. We at TUAW have a diverse community of both writers and readers, and we use many assistive technol…

Since the debut of the iPhone in 2007, apps have caught on like wildfire. Just this month Apple announced that it had hit 25 billion downloads with more than 550,000 apps, and in December of 2011, Google announced that its 400,000 apps had been downloaded 10 billion times. With its head start, Apple has always […]

A friend on Twitter asked me the other day if I had a list of the educational apps I have on my iPad. With all the reviews I have done, I was ashamed to admit that I’ve never taken the time to list those apps that I use on a regular basis with my ch…

FireCore announced today that it successfully jailbroke the Apple TV 2 (not the new Apple TV 1080P that released earlier this month). The jailbreak is tethered, which requires the Apple TV to be connected to a Mac/PC when first powering it on (only once). You also have to pay fireCore $30, but it has been […]

As Facebook switches another wave of resistant users over to Timeline, CIO’s Kristin Burnham has been hit with a few common questions. If you’ve recently switched to Timeline, or are still resisting the change, here are answers to four of the more com…

The Justice Department could reach a settlement in the next few weeks with Apple and some of the major publishers suspected of collaborating to hike electronic book prices reports “Reuters” (ht…

The latest edition of iLounge Weekly, our weekly newsletter covering all things iLounge, will be arriving in subscribers’ inboxes Monday morning. iLounge Weekly is a summary of the week’s best news, reviews, and feature articles we’ve published,…

Feral Interactive is serving up BioShock 2 to Mac users via the Mac App Store, two years after it arrived on the PC. It costs $30.99 on the Mac App Store, or via Feral directly. The game does include a multiplayer component as well.

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