Apple was the first computer manufacturer to popularize Wi-Fi, pioneering the adoption of the early 802.11b standard, then 802.11g, and raising the speed limit with 802.11n in 2007. Now AppleInsider is reporting that the company is expected to start providing support for the “Gigabit Wi…

Pew Research Center has found that the number of Americans owning tablets shot up by 10 percent to 19 percent between mid-December and early January, nearly doubling the number of tablet owners during the holiday season. The number of people …

As if there aren’t enough apps that supplement or promote console games, here are three more that have appeared recently. First up is Dragon Shout , the Skyrim -mapping app that was released a few weeks ago. It’s quite…

Apple recently released its Supplier Responsibility Progress Report for 2012 and, for the first time, provided a list of 156 suppliers. This list covers 97% of the companies that supply Apple with…

iTunes U Apple Genre: Education Release Date: January 18, 2012 The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools — plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content — right on your…

Apple today announced iBooks 2 for iPad, featuring iBooks textbooks, an entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic, engaging, and truly interactive. iBooks textbooks offer iPad users gorgeous, full-screen textbooks with interactive animations, diagrams, photos, videos, and unrivaled navigation. Leading education services companies including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, and…

Announced today at Apple’s education event , iTunes U — a long-standing feature of the iTunes Store — is now a separate application for iOS devices running iOS 5. Since 2006, iTunes U has…

Apple has released iTunes 10.5.3 for Mac and Windows. As of this writing, it’s available from Apple’s site, but not Software Update. As noted by MacStories , the new version adds support for synchronizing the iBooks…

Apple has announced the free iBooks Author , an OS X application for creating any type of ebook. As with Pages , a number of templates are available for authors to use to get started with making…

Today is Apple’s big education event and the company kicked off its announcements with iBooks 2 , which will bring a new textbook experience to the iPad. As expected, these textbooks will include standard text interspersed with interactive high-quality images, videos, animations and…