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Businessweek puts Apple at top of Most Innovative list

by Mike Schramm (May 28th, 2009)

Businessweek has posted a list of what they call the top 50 most innovative companies in 2009, and guess who is sitting right at the top of the list. Sure enough, it's our favorite computer maker -- according to the survey, taken by "senior executives around the world," Apple is number one, and the ...

Braid comes to the Mac

by Mike Schramm (May 21st, 2009)

You have to admit: for all of the gaming woes that the Mac faithful has suffered, there's fortunately never been a shortage of great indie games for us to play. Aquaria made it to our platform, World of Goo appeared pretty early on, and now Braid, Jonathan Blow's terrific deconstruction of Super ...

The Bacterial Orchestra uses the iPhone to create "viral music"

by Mike Schramm (May 19th, 2009)

This is really wild: what you see above is an example of "viral music" -- it's part of an upcoming music festival that's taking place in Sweden, and it features a circle of iPhones that are both listening to and playing a very abstract kind of "music." Each one is picking up audio from its ...

Fast Company Magazine ranks Apple #4 of 50 innovative companies

by Mel Martin (Feb 20th, 2009)

With most business trends heading south, Apple continues to get recognition from customers and the press. Today, Fast Company Magazine put Apple in 4th place among the top 50 most innovative companies. The article cites the iPhone, the App Store, the unibody construction of the new laptop line, ...

Five ways the App Store will change the world

by Mike Schramm (Jul 11th, 2008)

There are historic days, people. The App Store went live, and all of a sudden, we're drowning in new things for the iPhone. But it's not just a big deal for iPhone owners -- this is a huge day for society and technology in general. While there have been lots of PDAs, and lots of apps to run on them, ...

USA Today: iPod is lifechanging

by Erica Sadun (May 23rd, 2007)

USA Today recently chose 25 inventions they felt had changed people's lives in the last 25 years. Along with cell phones, laptops and DVDs, USA Today chose iPod as their #8 life changing gadget. It has, they suggest, reinvented the way people walk down sidewalks. Presumably before the iPod, no one ...

Found Video: iPhone "spanks" Microsoft

by Erica Sadun (Jan 11th, 2007)

Claiming that the new iPhone is the most important innovation since curly fries, comedian Craig Ferguson gives a hilarious smack down of Microsoft. It's a short bit (only about a minute and a half long), but chock full of giggles for Apple fans. Is Microsoft really as lacking in innovation as ...

Daring Fireball on "The iPod Juggernaut"

by David Chartier (Mar 25th, 2006)

John Gruber has published a glaringly well-written piece that dissects the iPod's unstoppable success, why things are going so well and why analysts should simply remove the term "iPod-killer" from their vocabulary. While it might be a bit lengthier than your typical "iPods are great, ...