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Teacher's iPhone app scores tests, shares data quickly

by Mike Schramm (Feb 26th, 2013)

Our colleagues at TechCrunch have an interesting story about Quick Key, an iPhone app that could be extremely helpful for teachers everywhere. Walter O. Duncan IV is a veteran teacher and the mind behind Quick Key, which is designed to score simple scantron tests (the old tests you complete by ...

Kyle Kinkade speaks at MacTech on the power of AirPlay

by Mike Schramm (Oct 20th, 2012)

Kyle Kinkade, you may remember, is one of the original early developers of Tap Tap Revenge (one of the biggest hits of the App Store's first generation of games). He was last seen working on Bartleby's Book of Buttons, a beautiful and interactive book for the iPad. This week at the MacTech IT ...

Woz's backpack brings new meaning to "overpacking"

by Mike Schramm (Jul 17th, 2012)

If you were a genius who helped create the first Apple computer and have since then been able to pretty much do whatever you want, wouldn't you carry around a crowded backpack as well? Steve Wozniak has listed out just what he happens to carry around on his back every day, and the entire list ...

How America benefits from Apple

by Steven Sande (Apr 2nd, 2012)

Apple has gone from near death in the 1990s to the pinnacle of success two decades later. TIME tech journalist Ben Bajarin notes in a post today that the company is a highly important and necessary part of the American economy and says that "America needs Apple to keep doing what it's ...

You're the Pundit: What's up with Thunderbolt?

by Erica Sadun (Mar 31st, 2012)

When it comes to discussing the next big thing, we turn to our secret weapon: the TUAW braintrust. We put the question to you and let you have your go at it. Today's topic is Thunderbolt, Apple and Intel's next-generation device interconnection standard. Introduced with great fanfare, ...

JP Morgan: Apple is a sector unto itself

by Mike Schramm (Feb 25th, 2012)

JP Morgan's hardware analyst Mark Moskowitz has laid bare exactly how huge Apple has become lately, calling the company an actual "sector," not just a company any more. Of course, on paper, Apple is competing with other computer and device manufacturers like Dell and Samsung, but the numbers just ...

Study: iPads improve Kindergarten literacy scores

by Mike Schramm (Feb 20th, 2012)

Apple is pushing for iPad use in education, and several schools have taken up the charge. Now, a study of kindergarteners in Auburn, Maine has shown that students who use iPads score better in every literacy test than those who don't. The study focused on 266 children whose instruction featured ...

Apple pulls iPad from Amazon China

by Mike Schramm (Feb 15th, 2012)

The iPad has apparently been pulled from sale on the Chinese version of Amazon, but apparently the reason wasn't because of some Amazon competition overseas, or even that recent lawsuit against Apple trying to stop the iPad from selling in that country. Nope -- apparently, it was Apple. Amazon's ...

Treehouse Labs tracks objects with your iPhone via BiKN

by Mike Schramm (Jan 17th, 2012)

Treehouse Labs was one of a few companies at CES hosted inside the booth of a semiconductor company, because Treehouse is using that company's chips for its own products. Treehouse's main product on display was something called "BiKN" (pronounced "beacon"), which uses relatively tiny RFID tags ...

How the iPad is succeeding in healthcare

by Mike Schramm (Dec 5th, 2011)

Wired has posted a profile of one Afshad Mistri, an Apple employee whose goal is quite focused. As the medical market manager, he's tasked with connecting medical professionals and Apple's technology. Mistri couldn't chat with Wired for the article itself (Apple's less-than-press-friendly ...

Students and iPads: ACU study shows positive results

by Brett Terpstra (Oct 3rd, 2011)

The first time I mentioned Abilene Christian University, it was because it was handing out iPhones to students. The next time was a year later when I followed up with an interview about the school's methods and research findings. Its approach to incorporating technology into education was ...

'Bring your own device' programs give Apple a boost in the enterprise

by Michael Rose (Sep 25th, 2011)

Programs that offer corporate some latitude and personal discretion in their technology choices are growing, said the NYT on Friday, and while the relaxing of IT standards mandates means there are plenty of market losers (HP, Dell, Lenovo, RIM and other enterprise-centric vendors), there's one big ...

Apple gains momentum in government, while BlackBerry stumbles

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 31st, 2011)

Federal agencies are undergoing an internal upheaval that threatens RIM's stranglehold on the government smartphone market. According to an article at the Washington Post, the Obama Administration is relaxing its rules on technology upgrades. Rather than old BlackBerry handsets, the modern ...

eBay's mobile app strategy shared at CES

by Mike Schramm (Jan 11th, 2011)

When I went to meet up with eBay at last week's CES conference, I went to a booth run not by that company, but by a company called RedLaser. Started by two U of Michigan grads, RedLaser is an eBay acquisition that has released a barcode scanning app for the iPhone that will scan your products and ...

OpenFeint's promotional app now called Game Channel

by Mike Schramm (Dec 17th, 2010)

Social gaming network OpenFeint has had its own app for a while now, offering up news and information for players playing games with the technology built-in. But the app recently underwent a re-branding of sorts -- it's now called Game Channel (not to be, or possibly to be, confused with Game ...