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Microsoft money buys Wisconsin schools iPadsWisconsin and Microsoft settled a software-related lawsuit in 2009 that landed US$3.4 million for the state, along with $80 in technology vouchers. $2.1 million was divided between the schools, and the Madison district is using some of that to finance its iPad purchases.The district will start by placing the multimedia…

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…

As with other analysts who follow the company, Mr. Walkley found most of his estimates outclassed by Apple’s results. In particular, the 37 million iPhones sold last quarter “crushed our 30.5 million estimate and consensus estimate of 30.2 million,” he wrote. He calculated an increase in the iPhone’s average selling price (ASP), a trend he…

In the note, which was obtained by TMO, Mr. Um wrote: “While we expected iPhone to drive [fiscal] 1Q due to a holiday quarter launch and accelerated distribution, the magnitude of upside is quite impressive. iPhone has legs into the March quarter as supply/demand remains imbalanced exiting December and [international rollouts continue into countries such…

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…

Mr. Oppenheimer said Apple is expecting revenue for its second fiscal quarter to hit US$32.5 billion, which is still up substantially from the $24.7 billion the company brought in during the same quarter last year. Gross margins are expected to be about 42 percent, and operating expenses are projected at $3.05 billion. Mr. Oppenheimer’s reasons…

Mediadevil has introduced a new stylus called the Magicwand. There are a number of good to excellent stylus’s on the market today, and this one should garner a look from anyone who is serious about getting a lot of use from a stylus.  

The tooth fairy is somewhat passé. As is tying one end of a string to a door knob and the other to a loose tooth and slamming the door. Ah yes, gently readers, that was done when I was a child. Chris Robertson and his book app, The Tooth That’s on the Loose, explains the…

I have been thinking about Apple’s foray into textbooks, announced last week. I note that some authors are outraged that Apple is trying to take 30 percent of textbook revenues and lock authors into their system. Others are suggesting that the market needed some leadership, and this is the price to pay for Apple bring…

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…

Over 350,000 textbooks downloaded in 3 daysThe analyst firm doesn’t say how it reached the 350,000 figure, although it claims to have a proprietary system for tracking Apple’s ebook sales, according to AllThingsD.Apple introduced its new interactive textbook format for iBooks 2 and the iPad at a special media event in New York City on…

The struggling Canadian tech company, which once lead the pack of email-enabled mobile devices, will see its two leaders who have guided the company for 20 years reduced to much less active roles. Mr. Lazaridis will become vice chairman of the board and Mr. Balsillie, while retaining his board position, will not have any operational…

Image of philharmonic via Igor Bulgarin / Shutterstock.com “Patron X,” as the offender was referred to by the Philharmonic, described himself as a business executive between 60 and 70 and expressed great regret for his inability to correctly operate his iPhone. “It was just awful to have any role in something like that, that is so…

Let’s face it. Most of us barely remember when we didn’t have the Force Quit option to save us if an application suddenly freezes. In the old days the only choice we had was to restart our computer and hope for the best. Of course, that also meant that any work we may have created…

Patent illustration as edited by Patently Apple. The application’s illustrative figures demonstrate how the proposed design method can produce batteries that are circular, triangular, or even “L”-shaped. The technology could even produce batteries with rounded edges, so that future devices with rounded bezels can maximize battery capacity by having the battery run flush with the outer…

How does Apple follow what is probably the most successful and ground-breaking 15 years in the history of corporations? Does smooth sailing lie ahead, with business proceeding much the same as if Steve were still around? Or will there be changes that indicate troubled waters lie in wait? Might there even be shifts that suggest…

According to the report, the new store will be 13,000 square feet, making it one of the larger Apple Store retail locations. The report also said that it was the mall that decided not to renew its lease with Abercrombie & Fitch in order to bring Apple in. Unnamed sources said that Apple will officially…

Thankfully, this year’s CES brought several new announcements and demonstrations of upcoming Thunderbolt devices and the impending Macworld | iWorld Expo promises to bring even more. For all those excited by Thunderbolt, we take a look at what’s already available and what’s just around the corner. Available Now Little Big Disk (LaCie) Released late last…

Mr. Jobs’s comment (Isaacson, p 830) is taking on the stature of Fermat’s Last Theorem. That is, everyone believes Mr. Jobs (and Fermat) had the solution, but no one could figure out what it was. The TV industry, without vision, research or a demonstrated understanding of first principles seems to be jumping to the conclusion…