Delta Airlines has released an updated iPhone app and an all-new iPad app. The big news for frequent fliers comes from the iPhone app. Version 2.0 of Fly Delta adds the ability to view and access your eBoarding Pass in Passbook in iOS 6 The updated iPhone app also sees the ability to purchase in-flight [...]
On Friday, the 26-year-old polymath Aaron Swartz was found dead in his apartment, the result of an apparent suicide. Swartz contributed his intellect and effort to an astonishing number of technologies and political causes, including collaborating on Reddit’s early development. At the age of 14, Swartz co-authored the 1.0 version of the RSS specification, enabling [...]
Edouard Manet (1832-1883) was one of the great 19th century painters. (He’s not to be confused with impressionist Claude Monet.) Manet was controversial, and stood at the crossroads of the transition from realism to impressionism. Happily, there’s a just-released collection of the best of Manet in a universal app for iOS called, appropriately, Best of [...]
If you were online at all on Thursday it was virtually impossible not to see a headline reporting on the 2013 Academy Award nominations. If you did happen to miss them, you can see all the nominees and get more information than you would ever need about every actor and film with the only official [...]
On Friday a judge approved the sale of 1,100 Kodak patents to a consortium led by Apple, Google, and Microsoft. The patent portfolio sold for US$525 million, well below Kodak’s hope to get up to $2 billion for the patents. The once all-powerful photography company Kodak is going through bankruptcy in part due to the [...]
This week’s Caturday heroes are Root (on the right) and Cisco (on the left), who are, according to owner and TUAW reader Jules F., enjoying some parallel computing. It looks like these cuties are making it twice as hard to get anything done! If you’ve got a Caturday nominee to share, let us know via [...]
Walls360 is a cool startup in Las Vegas that makes high-quality (but affordable) wall art. They’ve got the license to some great properties, like Star Trek, Plants vs. Zombies and a host of children’s books, and now they are offering nearly all of the icon artwork produced by famed designer Susan Kare. The company scored [...]
Roccat first showed us the Power Grid system (that uses an iPhone app to control various functions on a PC and the company’s PC accessories) at CES in 2012 before officially announcing it last March. And now, a year later, the service is almost ready for launch. It’s not quite good to go, but Roccat [...]
Wilson Electronics has been making cell phone signal boosters for a while now, both for home use and for larger scale settings like offices and commercial use. But the company is turning to something more personal with its new Sleek 4G cell phone booster, which is a phone stand that will make your iPhone’s signal [...]
Drexel University in Philadelphia has created a solution for students who need to use a computer on campus but don’t have immediate access to one of their own: A free MacBook vending machine. Ok, so it’s not exactly a vending machine, and the computers are only loaned to the students for free 5-hour intervals, but [...]
Moshi is back on the floor of CES this year in Las Vegas, and the accessory manufacturer kindly took a few moments to show us the latest and greatest for 2013. As you might imagine, the biggest innovation in the overall lineup is the Lightning adapter: Moshi’s rep told us that the company has been [...]
Majic Jungle Software, the developer behind Chopper 2 for iOS and Mac, has released its latest game at last. The Blockheads (free) is a “2.5D” take on the exploration and building formula of Minecraft, offering a large block-based world but presenting it from a side-on view rather than a first-person perspective. Unlike the similar Junk [...]
I tote around a handy iLuv USB hub with built-in Ethernet, but the company makes a ton of accessories. Docks, cases, speakers and more can be had from iLuv, and there are a few new items of note from CES 2013 to show you. First, the Aud 5 Speaker Dock is now equipped with a [...]
Viper, all set up in a booth on the floor of CES 2013 here in Las Vegas, is a company that makes car alarms, remote car starters, and other automotive accessories. Most of the time here at CES, we TUAWers keep our sights on Apple and Mac-related booths — we tend to stay away from [...]
Beats Audio CEO and Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine has told AllThingsD that he “spent about three years” trying to convince Steve Jobs that Apple should launch its own subscription-based streaming music service. Iovine recounted the effort while talking about his own upcoming music service, Daisy, which has musician Trent Reznor as its chief creative officer. [...]
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 stories by clicking the inline player (requires Flash) [...]
In the quest for the perfect rugged case for iPad and iPhone, we search far and wide for case manufacturers who are doing something different. Rokform sent over a few cases for us to look at; both the RokLock v3 iPad case (US$69) and RokShield v3 iPhone 5 case ($49) feature rugged good looks and [...]
It would appear that Japanese mobile carrier NTT DoCoMo is performing an about-face with regard to supporting the iPhone on its network. Following reports late last year that it had seen record defections of customers to other carriers, the company’s president now says it is open to carrying Apple’s smartphone, something it has been openly [...]
HeartMath is a company that’s been dealing with emotional health and stress relief for several years. While I don’t go in for measuring one’s emotional state with a gadget, I have to say that visiting HeartMath’s booth here at CES 2013 was very disarming. They sat me down, and plugged a clip on my ear [...]
Throughout the history of Apple, the United States has been the company’s largest market. That’s set to change — while on his trip to China, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that he believes that China will become the largest market for the company’s products. Speaking to the state-run Xinhua News, Cook said that “China is [...]
Apple’s adding a big name to the executive suites in March. Xerox executive vice president and CFO Luca Maestri has been named as the new corporate controller of Apple. Maestri will continue to work at Xerox through February 28 to “help manage the financial leadership transition.” Maestri has been with Xerox for about two years, [...]
It’s time to save some of that hard-earned cash with our Daily Deals, featuring a handy list from Dealnews and our own hand-picked selections that include some sweet deals on iOS and OS X software (all prices are USD). Deals from Dealnews Ondesoft: [Mac Software] Ondesoft ClipBuddy for Mac for free. MacUpdate Promo: [Mac Software] [...]
German Apple TV users have a new app and service on their devices. Matthew Panzarino at The Next Web reports that German subscription video on demand service Watchever has found a place on the home screen of the diminutive puck. Watchever is similar to Hulu, offering German, European, and international TV series and movies. For [...]
Apple was a prominent part of CES even though it didn’t have a physical presence at the trade show. Not only were there a large number of iOS and OS X vendors on the show floor, Apple was also awarded a Technology & Engineering Emmy for its iCloud service. As reported by The Loop, the [...]
Most dogs and outdoor cats like to wander when they are left outside. Cats, especially, will disappear for the day on some adventure in your neighborhood. If you are concerned or curious about their travels, an upcoming product called Tractive will let you see where they go when they meander Tractive is a small GPS [...]
We’ve written an awful lot regarding patents in the past 12 months. As it turns out, during that time Apple has been awarded a quite a few new ones for us to spend the next several decades talking about. In fact, The New York Times reports that 1 Infinite Loop was awarded 1,136 new patents [...]
A Java security flaw has been reported by CERT (the Computer Emergency Readiness Team). TheNextWeb has a good write-up of the background of the exploit’s discovery. Here’s the bad news: there is no “fix” for the bug yet. Here’s the worse news: it is believed that malicious sites on the web are already aware of [...]
iFile Browser is a handle little US $2.99 utility for iOS. It lets you access, organize and edit files that are stored on your iOS device or a file that is in the cloud, either stored on iCloud or Dropbox. Once the app is set up you can view and edit any document, even if [...]
As of yesterday, the London Underground is officially 150 years old. Way back on January 10, 1863, London’s Tube became the first mass transit underground railway in the world. And what started as just seven stops on one line between Paddington and Farringdon stations has now grown into a massive rail network of over eleven [...]
Wired has an interesting — although certainly not unexpected — look at how Apple has managed to have a massive impact on this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas without having any official presence at the show. As the piece points out, a large percentage of products being shown at the event have to [...]
You may have already pre-orded FreedomPop’s almost-too-good-to-be-true iPhone accessory back in May, but it seems the FCC is still in the process of approving the device. FreedomPop CEO Stephen Stokols told FierceWireless that the agency is taking issue with the sleeve’s design, noting that the snap-on case places the built-in WiMAX radio right next to [...]
Sina Technology sat down with Tim Cook while he was in China and talked about Apple’s growing presence in the Asian country. Not surprisingly, Cook fielded a question about China Mobile, the world’s largest wireless carrier and the only major Chinese carrier to not sell the iPhone. Cook confirmed he met with China Mobile in [...]
Apple has enjoyed a recent burst of success in China, with the new iPad mini selling out faster than supplies can be replenished, but rather than sitting back and enjoying the regional boom, the company is going on the offensive with a new Chinese New Year Gift Guide. M.I.C. Gadget reports that the new buyers [...]
We’ve been hearing rumors of a cheaper iPhone for longer than we’d care to remember, and while everyone from the Wall Street Journal to Bloomberg is trumpeting the budget iPhone horn, Apple’s own Phil Schiller is doing his best to put an end to it. TNW reports that in an interview with China’s Shanghai Evening [...]
It’s time to save some of that hard-earned cash with our Daily Deals, featuring a handy list from Dealnews and our own hand-picked selections that include some sweet deals on iOS and OS X software (all prices are USD). Deals from Dealnews MacUpdate Promo: [Mac Software] Habits for Mac downloads for $5 TigerDirect: [Surge Protectors] [...]
In our August review of PowerCam (US$0.99), we called it “…a grab bag of photo tools wrapped up into one app.” That bag gets a little nicer with version 2.1, which adds some nice new effects, improves the collage feature with new templates and a “freestyle” option and more. It’s super handy and useful. Here’s [...]
I’m an American, but I live in the United Kingdom and travel frequently to foreign countries in Europe. If there’s one piece of technology that has most benefited the international traveler in the last five years it’s been the iPhone. Having a personal computer in your pocket that lets you interact with all facets of [...]
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 stories by clicking the inline player (requires Flash) [...]
Rovio Entertainment has released version 1.4 of Angry Birds Space to the App Store. The free update is sure to make Angry Bird fans happy. Users now have another 30 levels to sling their way through as the birds find themselves in a new galaxy called “Splash” with all new water-based planets, underseas life, and [...]
On October 23, 2012 when Apple announced the 4th-generation iPad and iPad mini, the TUAW newsroom was abuzz with questions, one of which was “How many owners of 3rd-generation iPads are going to get rid of their ‘old’ devices to get a new iPad-” Thanks to Gazelle, a company that accepts trade-ins of Apple gear [...]
While corporations — including Apple — keep financial information locked away except for those items that require public disclosure, the job of Wall Street analysts like Horace Dediu of Asymco is to take bits of information scattered hither and yon and meld them into a more realistic model of how a company is performing. Dediu [...]
It has been busy in the App Store with a handful of new apps landing on iOS and OS X. Take a few minutes and check out our list of standout apps from the past week or so! iOS Apps PicsArt Photo Studio [iPhone, Category: Photography & Video, Free] PicsArt is a free, full-featured photo [...]
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