How does an idea on an overseas trip turn into a business that was sold to Home Depot?
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Filed under: Investing Last month, Fortune magazine published its annual "Fortune 500" list, with Apple ranking sixth, making a big jump from last year's spot in 17th place. Fortune offered a closer look at Apple in that issue, centering on what the...
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If you believe—as I do—that the world’s monetary authorities will never allow deflation to take hold and that the odds of inflation climbing to some degree in the years ahead are significant, it makes sense to own some silver to diversify your...
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A remarkable video clip from 1994 captures the Apple founder pondering silicon ephemerality ...
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Anyone who's tried to tether to their iPhone or iPad will recall how iOS manages to craft its own passwords when used as a personal hotspot. The aim is to ensure that anyone sharing their data connection will get some degree of security, regardless of...
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Apple disappointed a lot of people when it unveiled its latest mobile operating system, iOS 7, last week. Some professional designers called iOS 7 ugly, inconsistent, and confusing. Drew Breunig, senior director of strategy at hyper-local ad startup...
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Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence that collects and delivers the top mobile industry news. It is delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Tablets Account For Majority Of Mobile Commerce...
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Guest Post Although Target has done a good job on its mobile app, it still comes up a bit short in the areas of location, user context, and personalization. ...
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Even as Apple sizzles in the Senate hot seat for alleged tax evasion and finds itself the object of a Justice Department investigation into price-fixing ebooks, the company still enjoys a vast reservoir of good faith with the American people
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Goal Zero's solar charging products are a favorite here at TUAW, and the company loves New Yorkers -- it provided a number of charging products during the power outages after last fall's Hurricane Sandy. Now Goal Zero, AT&T, and Brooklyn-based design...
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The first time you turn on your phone after installing iOS 7, you’ll feel like Charlie Bucket landing in Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Those colors! Those icons! So much neon! You’ve fallen into a world of pure imagination, a place where everything...
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Are you gonna eat that? No? Mind if it just stick in this here bucket, let it sit for a bit and then dump it on my garden? That’s what we call composting (in a nut shell) and it’s been on the mind of New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg lately....
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It's time to save some of that hard-earned cash with our Daily Deals, featuring a handy list from Dealnews and our own hand-picked selections that include some sweet deals on iOS and OS X software (all prices are USD). Prices are subject to change. Deals...
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Guest Post Rain Rannu is the founder and CEO of Fortumo, the mobile payments company that powers in-app payments for Rovio, Facebook, Barnes & Noble NOOK, EA, Gameloft and more than 60,000 other developers. The mobile gaming industry has grown up....
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Filed under: Investing Have you seen Apple's new commercial? There's something noteworthy missing. See if you can figure it out. Unlike the ads we've seen in recent years, which have generally shown off the iPhone, iPad, or Mac, or compared Apple's products...
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One of my biggest complaints with Apple's iOS operating system for iPhone's and iPads is that you can't hide apps that come with the phone if you don't want to use them. By now, Apple's App Store is so huge that there's a better third-party alternative...
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The revelations of the recent NSA leaks are explosive, but Edward Snowden is not the first whistleblower to leak information to the public about government operations. Oxford-based project Free Speech Debate interviewed several former intelligence professionals...
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Health tech companies were our biggest funding deals today, in a huge day of investments. ...
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If you lived in Kansas City from the late 60's to mid 90's you have no doubt visited Stephenson's Old Apple Farm Restaurant. The restaurant has since closed, but I was able to purchase an Stephenson's Restaurants Receipts Old Family Secret Recipes which...
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If you lived in Kansas City, Mo from the late 60's to mid 90's to probably had gone to Stephenson's Restaurants the original being at 40 Highway and Lee's Summit Road. They have long since been closed, however I was able to purchase a recipe book called...
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GigaOM noticed that Apple quietly released an update to Siri that offers to put a user in contact with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, should he or she mention suicide. Should the person decline the offer, Siri then brings up area suicide prevention...
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A touching, never-before-seen video of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has revealed his inner thoughts about what his legacy might be one day. The video is a part of a 60-minute documentary called Steve Jobs: Visionary Entrepreneur, which is based around...
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The recipe listed on the back of the Spice Apple Bran Muffin Mix bag, with a few additions of my own. I love to tweak recipes to my liking, and I love that I can store the recipe for later here on Food.com because it is so hard to remember what I did...
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World leaders of the wealthiest countries at the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland have new ideas to stop the flow of corporate profits toward business-friendly countries. World leaders at the G-8 summit have declared that governments must work together...
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The Wi-Fi Alliance this week kicked off its certification program for 802.11ac, the new 5 GHz beam forming standard. Products conforming to 802.11ac can deliver whole-home coverage at two or three times the speed of older Wi-Fi products and can handle...
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The designer behind Apple's first jewelry piece - Fashionista The craziest concert outfits to date - The Daily Beast Karlie Kloss fronts Jean Paul Gaultier's Fall 2013 campaign - The Fashion Spot Michael Kors's $6 million pay cut - Styleite The evolution...
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It's been a while since we've heard anything out of the gTar camp -- nearly half a year in fact, when the company announced pre-orders the week of CES. This morning the Kickstarted instrument manufacturer broke the silence by announcing that it'll be...
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Apple TV is beefing up its catalog of TV shows, movies and sports, with the addition of HBO Go and WatchESPN. Previously, the only way to watch content from either channel was through their respective iOS apps, using AirPlay to beam the video to Apple...
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As previously reported, HBO Go is indeed coming to Apple TV, effective Wednesday. Apple announced that WatchESPN and content from an assortment of other streaming providers are now available on the device as well. Apple TV owners — at least, those...
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The Los Angeles Unified School District has awarded Apple a $30 million contract to provide every student with an iPad....
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Apple announced today that HBO GO and WatchESPN are now available on the Apple TV. Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice president of Internet Software and Services said that "HBO GO and WatchESPN are some of the most popular iOS apps and are sure to be huge hits...
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When you enable the Personal Hotspot feature on your iPhone, iOS will generate a password on your behalf. It's convenient, but recent research from FAU in Germany suggests it is not very secure. According to researchers Andreas Kurtz, Felix Freiling,...
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Researchers demonstrate that the list passwords for protecting the iPhone's mobile hotspot are drawn from is just too small. The "randomly generated" passwords are also not random enough....
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LinkedIn users may soon find that their iOS 7 enabled Apple devices have received deep integration with the social business platform. The deeper integration was discovered by 9to5 Mac via code hidden inside the developer beta for iOS 7. The new code...
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4K televisions are all the rage right now, but they're still dogged by a slight problem: where's the content? Red has taken one step to rectify that, as it's finally started shipping it's Redray media player, which can send a native 4K (4,096 × 2,160)...
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What do you do when the brightest minds of the Mac and iOS developer community descend upon San Francisco for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference? You pull aside four of those bright minds, and ask them a series of foolish questions about the week’s...
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Apple today announced that two more entertainment options will be hitting its set-top offering. HBO Go and WatchESPN have been added to the Apple TV lineup, along with Sky News, Crunchyroll and Qello, joining the ranks of Hulu Plus, Netflix and sports...
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Apple has added two major new content sources to Apple TV today, via HBO GO and WatchESPN integration. The new streaming services adds a considerable selection of content to the company's streaming content device, bringing the HBO GO library to the platform,...
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Apple may integrate LinkedIn into iOS 7 the same way Facebook and Twitter are currently integrated into iOS 6, a new report says. The code in the developer beta of iOS 7 contains references to a single sign-on system for LinkedIn similar to the one used...
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Facebook Home is a whole lot more than that it seems. Think of it as an "apperating system," a software platform that sits between the operating system and the apps, capturing an enormous share of the user's attention. And, Facebook ... ...
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Small app studio Impending is struggling with one of the most essential questions about today's App Store: what to charge for a new app in the age of free-to-play apps....
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The ability to turn your iPhone into a Wi-Fi hotspot is a fantastically useful little tool in and of itself. But Apple, being the generous overlord that it is, goes so far as to automatically generate a network key, keeping even the most absent-minded...
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Filed under: Investing Apple Awarded $30 Million iPad Deal From LA Unified School District CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Apple® today announced it received the Los Angeles School Board of Education's approval to begin a massive roll out of iPad®...
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inkcredibleprinting via eBay offers this 2,500mAh Battery Case for Apple iPhone 4 / 4S in seven colors for $8.99 with free shipping. That ties our mention from last week as the lowest total price we could find for such a case by $3. It includes a screen...
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CNET | Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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George H. Williams introduces us to this free iPad app for creating and showing presentations.
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Using design plans believed to have originated at Apple, accessory makers are beginning to manufacture cases for the company's anticipated low-cost iPhone, and AppleInsider offers a first look at the schematics they are using to predict the device's...
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You can now build a 1-billion-connection model with $20,000 worth of hardware. It opens up the world for researchers to improve the performance of speech recognition and computer vision. Down the line, this research on souped-up versions of neural networks...
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Apple has released an update to its Configurator app. The OS X app allows users to configure and deploy iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch devices in an enterprise environment, such as schools or government institutions. While no major changes were introduced,...
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The other day I made a meal that was nearly all vegetables -- sweet potatoes, roasted asparagus, and an apple, arugula, and feta salad. It was a great meal and I didn't even realize until I was eating it that it was basically all vegetables, rather than...
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