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MacBooks benefit students in Mooresville, N.C.

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 13th, 2012)

Schools are adopting technology in the classroom, handing out Macs and iPads to students as young as kindergarten. Its not the devices, but their usage in the classroom that's important says a recent New York Times article. The report chronicles the success of the Mooresville, N.C. school system. ...

Chinese readers respond to story of Apple's Chinese suppliers

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 27th, 2012)

The financial world's eyes are on Apple this week after it announced record-breaking quarterly earnings. In the midst of all this commentary and congratulations, there was also a sobering article by New York Times reporters Charles Duhigg and David Barboza. Titled "In China, Human Costs Are Built ...

Popular Science sees boost from Apple's Newsstand

by Steven Sande (Dec 23rd, 2011)

Apple's Newsstand app, which premiered on iOS devices with the release of iOS 5, was designed to improve the sales of newspapers and magazines by giving publishers their own virtual shelf space in a highly visible app. Several other publications have already touted their success stories with ...

Developers eager to submit apps before App Store vacation

by Mike Schramm (Dec 19th, 2011)

It's that time of year again: Snow is in the air, presents are underneath the tree, and Apple is about to shut down the developer's side of App Store for its yearly freeze. The New York Times has done some solid coverage on the shutdown this year, which will start this Thursday, and run for a ...

Apple reportedly working on wearable, Siri-compatible devices

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 19th, 2011)

If you watch enough Sci-Fi movies, you'll start to crave technology that lets you talk to your device and say things like "Computer, make me a cup of coffee." An early implementation of this voice control is the Bluetooth headset which lets you make calls by speaking to your phone. Now we have ...

New York Times offers political news iPhone app with a catch

by Mel Martin (Dec 12th, 2011)

I was pretty excited to see the New York Times offer Election 2012, a compendium of news, polling results, candidate bios and a primary calendar. The app was listed as free, but when you actually get it up and running you'll find it is severely limited. If you want all the content, you're going ...

NYT: Cook may be more enterprise-friendly than Jobs was

by Steven Sande (Nov 15th, 2011)

Tim Cook may not be the charismatic Apple CEO that the late Steve Jobs was, but at least to the business world, he's much more apt to meet and work with the chief information officers (C.I.O.'s) at enterprises than his predecessor ever was. The New York Times reported today that Cook is ...

NYT: Siri-powered Apple HDTV is definitely coming

by Michael Rose (Oct 27th, 2011)

Over at the New York Times' Bits blog, Nick Bilton has added his well-sourced voice to the rising chorus of yea-sayers on the rumor of an Apple-branded television set, arriving at some date yet uncertain. Bilton's reporting, stretching back over a year, leads him to believe that while Apple isn't ...

Daily Update for October 26, 2011

by Steven Sande (Oct 26th, 2011)

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 ...

A look at Tim Cook's presentation style

by Steven Sande (Oct 11th, 2011)

Last Tuesday's "Let's Talk iPhone" Apple event was the first time that Apple CEO Tim Cook had the opportunity to run the show for a major product introduction. In the past, of course, most Apple product announcements were "Stevenotes," with the late CEO Steve Jobs wowing the audiences with ...

U2's Bono has kind words for Steve Jobs

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 2nd, 2011)

U2's Bono has expressed thanks for Steve Jobs's "invaluable" support in fighting AIDS in a letter to the editor of The New York Times. Bono contacted the editor after The Time's Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote a link-bait column titled "The Mystery of Steve Jobs's Public Giving." In the column Sorkin ...

New York Times updates iPhone, iPad apps to offer in-app subscriptions

by Mike Schramm (Jul 1st, 2011)

The Gray Lady herself has assented to Apple's rules about in-app subscriptions, so you can now subscribe to the vaunted New York Times right from the mobile apps on Apple's iPad and iPhone. We're still not talking about the print edition, so you can't log in on your phone and then have the ...

New York Times website harvests iPhone location data

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 5th, 2011)

The New York Times Company Research and Development Lab has developed its own tool to take advantage of location-tracking data that caused a kerfuffle when it was discovered that Apple was collecting said data. Although the issue has been resolved, the newspaper points out that regular people ...

New York Times website, iPhone and iPad subscriptions start soon

by Mel Martin (Mar 17th, 2011)

We knew it was coming, and now there is a date: the Gray Lady is charging admission this month. The New York Times digital products (the website, TimesReader app, phone apps and iPad edition) will be subject to a subscription fee for US customers starting March 28, with Canadian customers ...

New York Times updates iPad app to stop constant crashing

by Mel Martin (Dec 28th, 2010)

It's about time. Ever since the NYTimes for iPad app replaced the lame Editors' Choice app, it has been tough sledding trying to read the news. It often took a long time to load, and then before displaying a single story, it crashed. I reinstalled the app, and that made things better for a while ...