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Contact Snapper is an easy way to turn business cards into contacts

by Mel Martin (Apr 1st, 2013)

Contact Snapper for iPhone is the most clever app I've seen for the purpose of turning a business card into an editable digital contact. The app, which you can test for free, has several in-app purchase options I'll discuss later in this review. Contact Snapper is simple to use, and that is ...

AT&T to offer increased data plans for business

by Mike Schramm (Mar 20th, 2013)

AT&T has announced that it's rolling out new, large data plans meant for businesses. Starting on March 22, businesses will be able to sign up to data plans covering either 30, 40 or even 50 GB of data per month, which can be shared across a number of phones on one plan. There is a standard ...

Intuit releases new QuickBooks Online app for the iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 14th, 2013)

Intuit expanded its mobile app portfolio today with a new iPad app for its QuickBooks Online accounting service. The iPad app is a standalone solution that lets you sync items like invoices, expenses and estimates across your iOS devices and the web. Intuit talked to small-business owners ...

LinkedIn gives all of its employees iPad minis

by Mike Schramm (Feb 13th, 2013)

LinkedIn is most known for being a website that helps users get jobs, but it turns out working there is probably pretty nice as well: The CEO of the company today handed out 3,500 iPad minis, to every one of the company's employees. That's right: If you work at LinkedIn, you got an iPad mini ...

Tekserve CTO speaks out on the trouble with managing iPad business migrations

by Mike Schramm (Feb 12th, 2013)

Macworld has a fascinating interview up with Aaron Freimark, the CTO of NYC's well-loved independent Apple retailer Tekserve. Freimark's current job is to help companies do something we've talked about here quite a few times before: implement iPhones and iPads into their business ...

Origin Stories: Joel Grasmeyer, Construction Cost Estimator

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 8th, 2013)

I met up with Joel a while ago and we struck up a conversation about estimating construction costs because my father-in-law had been a contractor. He had what looked like a great app for estimating these costs, and it's now available for iPhone, iPad and Mac. In this Origin Stories I talk to ...

Gameloft announces 27% boost in earnings in 2012, 56% of sales from back catalog

by Mike Schramm (Jan 30th, 2013)

Developer Gameloft has announced its earnings for the last quarter, and they're up. The company even beat out its own guidance, ending 2012 with a 27 percent boost in earnings on the year in total, up to $275 million. I would have thought much of that was from the major Christmas sales that we ...

Steve Jobs reportedly threatened Palm over anti-poaching agreement

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 23rd, 2013)

Documents released in a civil lawsuit against Apple and other high-profile tech companies claim Steve Jobs threatened to sue Palm if it refused to sign an anti-poaching agreement. Defendants in the lawsuit asked the court to keep these documents sealed, but Judge Lucy Koh denied this request, ...

How Brewster saved me time digging through old contacts (Updated)

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 17th, 2013)

Update: So after a few weeks of testing Brewster I started to notice some bad things. First, contacts started merging or disappearing. Most notably: My dad. Since I'm a "junior" the Brewster support staff said it was likely due to the similarity of our names. Unfortunately his contact worked ...

iPad would be America's 11th largest tech company

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 8th, 2013)

The iPad dominates in the tablet market, and according to Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi, the tablet raked in US$32 billion in sales last year. As noted by Fortune 2.0, the iPad is so successful that it would rank as the 11th largest tech company in the US, if Apple spun off the ...

Omni Group teases OmniFocus 2, OmniPresence and more for 2013

by Randy Nelson (Dec 21st, 2012)

Those planning to make a New Year's resolution to (yet again!) get more organized should be glad to hear that Omni Group is planning a major update to its popular Mac-based task management software, OmniFocus, in 2013. The developer intends to take the wraps off OmniFocus 2 for Mac at an event ...

Woz predicts that in 2013, iOS devices are headed to work

by Mike Schramm (Dec 17th, 2012)

Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak often appears here on the pages of TUAW for doing some silly things like joking around with Stephen Colbert or starring in an iOS game. But the man's still got a great mind (and a lot of experience with technology), so when he makes some predictions for 2013 ...

Voxeet, conference calling for iOS with some visual twists

by Mel Martin (Dec 12th, 2012)

The just-released iOS version of Voxeet is a free conference calling app, running over VoIP and interoperating with the company's Windows and Android apps. Voxeet is designed to handle conference calls in a unique way with excellent audio and some fun visual enhancements. Problem No. 1 on most ...

Apple named top stock for 2013 by Barron's

by Mike Wehner (Dec 10th, 2012)

Despite falling off significantly from its highest point of the year at over $700 a share, Apple's stock is still a hot topic amongst investment gurus. Financial magazine Barron's not only retains faith in Cupertino's value, but feels so strongly about the company's ability to once again reach a ...

Apple's US plant could be highly automated

by Mike Wehner (Dec 7th, 2012)

With Apple poised to drop a cool $100 million in US manufacturing in 2013, theories about just what a modern Apple factory could look like. As Macworld reports, the early money appears to be on intelligent machines, and lots of them. The idea behind having an Apple production facility in the ...