Jim Tanous

The uniquely designed store, one of several Apple flagship retail locations around the world, was first opened to the public in July 2010 and credits the late Steve Jobs, among others, for its creation.  Others credited by the patent include Benjamin Fay, Peter Bohlin, David Andreini, Karl Backus, Robert Bridger, and former VP of Retail…

While the definition of “nearly” is certainly open to debate, I hope to show that for videophiles and disinterested wives alike, the answer is “No, iTunes is not a good replacement for Blu-ray among those who care about picture quality.”  First, my testing methodology is different. Ars used a camera to take pictures of their…

The Vietnamese site has a video of the product unboxing (reproduced below). Non-native speakers will have to settle for a visual demonstration, but the interface on the iPad is set to English and clearly shows the new toggle for LTE in the Cellular Data section of Settings. Dozens of additional photos are available at Tinhte.vn.The…

During Apple’s announcement last Wednesday, movies were added to Apple’s iCloud service, joining TV Shows and Music, allowing users to stream films purchased from iTunes (as well as select digital copies obtained via purchases of physical DVDs and Blu-Rays) to any iOS 5 device, including Apple TV. While the service launched with support from major…

The HTML5 benchmark, available on github for anyone to try for themselves, measured how many images each mobile platform could display and move at once while maintaining a 30 frames per second frame-rate and looked at all major iOS and Android devices. The report’s results demonstrate an overwhelming performance advantage for iOS devices of all…

At the event, Mr. Johnson outlined six areas of focus, what he called the “Six Ps” for the chain going forward:  Price Mr. Johnson will simplify JC Penney pricing into three categories: everyday, month-long, best-price. Everyday pricing is the standard day-to-day cost of items that Johnson categorized as “competitive but reasonable.” Month-long are sales on…

The annual Lemelson-MIT Invention Index conducted the survey, aimed at young adults aged 16 to 25, and found that 24 percent of respondents labeled the late Mr. Jobs as the greatest innovator of all time. Mr. Edison, inventor or influencer of many modern day technologies that society takes for granted, safely took first place with…

Today we’ll take a look at the 1 TB model, which contains two 2.5” 500 GB hard drives. In our case, the internal drives are a pair of Hitachi Travelstar 7K750 series 500 GB drives rotating at 7200 RPM. The internal interface and the drives themselves operate at SATA II (3Gb/s) speeds, which doesn’t impact…

Mr. Gates recalled the visit he made to Mr. Jobs in the weeks before his death. “He and I always enjoyed talking. He would throw some things out, you know, some stimulating things. We’d talk about the other companies that have come along. We talked about our families and how lucky we’d both been in…

Zynga’s game “Dream Heights,” released last week in the Canadian iTunes App Store, has been identified by many in the iOS community as a nearly identical copy of NimbleBit’s “Tiny Tower,” released last year.  While the games have different graphical styles, the basic gameplay and strategic elements are identical, and that’s drawn the ire of…

Acting as a significant hint to what many U.S. adults received this holiday season, both tablets and e-books rose from 10% ownership in mid-December to 19% by January. There was a corresponding jump in the number of Americans owning at least one of the above devices, from 18% in December to 29% in January.Chart via…

Windows Phone, Microsoft’s most recent mobile operating system, will surpass iOS market share by 2015, market research firm IHS iSuppli predicted last week.  Although currently in last place with 1.9% market share in 2011, Microsoft’s partnership with Finnish-based handset giant Nokia, which will deploy the Windows Phone OS on its current and future smartphones, will…