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Foxconn seeks to expand North American manufacturing operations

by Randy Nelson (Dec 6th, 2012)

On the same day we started hearing about Apple's plans to manufacture an undisclosed Mac product in the United States, a Bloomberg report indicates that Apple's largest manufacturing partner, China's Foxconn, is looking to increase its presence in North America. Coincidence? Neither company is ...

Former Apple CEO John Sculley: Apple is well-run

by Mike Wehner (Dec 5th, 2012)

Although Tim Cook has been at Apple's helm for a while now, concern over his long-term guidance continues to permeate opinions of both shareholders and analysts. For his part, former Apple CEO, John Sculley, is confident in Apple's management. The Motley Fool reports that during a recent interview ...

Evernote releases Evernote Business

by Mike Schramm (Dec 4th, 2012)

Evernote is rolling along with new products lately. The company just revamped its Mac and iOS clients, and here's a brand-new creation called Evernote Business. The core Evernote service is designed to track notes, photos and other various ephemera for an individual mind, but Evernote Business ...

Barclays orders 8,500 iPads for massive corporate rollout

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Nov 23rd, 2012)

The Channel, part of the UK's Register, reports that Barclays Bank has ordered 8,500 iPads in what is believed to be one of the largest corporate deployments of the device in the UK. Barclays told The Channel that they went with the iPad because of staff demand. Among the apps the bank plans ...

Apple to allow employees time off to work on special projects

by Mike Wehner (Nov 12th, 2012)

If you walked into your boss's office and asked for two weeks off to work on an unspecified side project, what would their reaction be? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that if you happen to be one of a select group of Apple employees, you'd be granted the ability to do just that. Tim Cook has ...

E Ink feeling the pinch from more capable tablets

by Mike Wehner (Oct 29th, 2012)

In late 2007 when Amazon's very first Kindle hit the market, it was the beginning of big things for Taiwan's E Ink Holdings Inc. The company is the one behind the black-and-white display found in Amazon's e-reader and many like it. At the time, the iPad was still over two years from being ...

Color closeout story shifts; team said to be headed to Apple

by Mike Wehner (Oct 18th, 2012)

It's been a Color-ful 24 hours for anyone following the several contradictory stories surrounding the future of the exorbitantly-funded social media company Color. As the dust settles, it appears that Apple is poised to purchase the heart of Color, just not its name. The saga started when an ...

Australia's Woolworths drops RIM for iPhones

by Mike Wehner (Oct 17th, 2012)

Australian supermarket chain Woolworths is dropping the BlackBerry handsets used by employees in many of its more than 800 locations in favor of iPhones. The company is in the process of gathering the staff's remaining 550 BlackBerrys, which will then be replaced by iPhone 5s. Australian wireless ...

Everything cool about Curio just got better

by Brett Terpstra (Oct 11th, 2012)

Curio, one of my long-time favorite brainstorming and project management applications, has received a massive update with version 8. If you've never seen Curio, it's a highly visual environment for collecting information, lists, mind maps, websites, PDFs, emails and much more into organized ...

YouMail updates, now allows 'numberless messaging'

by Mike Schramm (Oct 2nd, 2012)

We covered YouMail back in February of last year -- it's a voicemail replacement app for iOS, which allows you to access and send voicemails completely outside of the standard voicemail interface. If you use voicemail a lot, YouMail features a lot of extra options and ways to handle all of ...

Microsoft Office for Mac now has Retina support

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 19th, 2012)

Microsoft has updated the Office for Mac software to have Retina display support for Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint. The update is available via Microsoft AutoUpdate. The update comes as a welcome surprise, as a month ago, the prognosis of Retina display support for Microsoft Office looked ...

TUAW and MacTech interview: Fiberlink

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Sep 7th, 2012)

Fiberlink makes a range of business management tools for devices (company iPhones and Macs and the like) and documents. In this video, Neil Ticktin (Editor-in-Chief, MacTech Magazine) interviews Jatin Malik of Fiberlink at WWDC 2012. Jatin was kind enough to share his thoughts on the ...

How apps are helping small business save money

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 20th, 2012)

During its keynote presentations, Apple often showcases how educational institutions and Fortune 500 companies are using the iPad and iPhone. Many people don't realize that small businesses are also benefiting from Apple's iOS devices. A report in USA Today sheds some light on how small ...

Daily iPad App: Business Card Reader HD lets you scan business cards on the go

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 14th, 2012)

SHAPE Services has an iPad version of its Business Card Reader app that'll make it easy for you to manage your business cards right on your tablet. The iPad version works in a similar way as its iPhone counterpart. It uses the camera on your iPad 3 to snap a photo of a business card and has a ...

Why entrepreneurs look to Steve Jobs for guidance (and why they shouldn't)

by Michael Rose (Aug 5th, 2012)

There's something about the juxtaposition of Apple stories and religious imagery that hits Wired magazine's design team right where they live. In 1997, the magazine's notorious 101 Ways to Save Apple story was represented on the cover by an Apple logo circled in a martyr's crown of thorns; this ...