Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on February 7 at 5:40 pm PT
Katie looks at the new iBooks 2 app which offers enhanced educational textbooks that are, for now, focused on high-school students.
Can’t wait for high school calculus iBooks where kids have to triangulate Kindle sales with rubbish percentage data
– Dan Frommer, via Twitter
John Paczkowski in News on January 23 at 3:45 am PT
Within days of its debut, Apple’s iBooks textbook store racks up a significant number of downloads, according to a new estimate.
John Paczkowski in News on January 3 at 1:05 pm PT
Is Apple targeting the textbook industry for transformation?
Drake Martinet in Media on November 18, 2011 at 12:30 pm PT
Notes in the margins of e-books could be the next platform for social interaction. At least that’s what Amsterdam-based start-up Openmargin is hoping.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on October 4, 2011 at 8:45 am PT
New CEO Tim Cook and crew took the stage to reveal the latest developments in all things i — the iPod, iPad, iOS 5, iCloud, iTunes and, of course, the new iPhone, which turned out to be the juiced-up 4S.
John Paczkowski in News on June 7, 2011 at 12:04 am PT
There were lots of numbers showcased in Apple’s WWDC keynote Monday morning–big, big numbers.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 20, 2011 at 12:01 am PT
Instead of clogging up your mail and piling up uncontrollably on your coffee table, Padopolis wants to deliver the same content you’d find in a catalog in electronic form–starting with an iPad application. Catalog Spree, which launched yesterday on the iPad, aggregates a number of catalogs in one place, similarly to a mall, where consumers can go to one place and find multiple stores.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 2, 2011 at 3:05 pm PT
The most important numbers by far at Apple’s special event in San Francisco today were 2 (as in iPad 2) and 4.3 (as in iOS 4.3). But there plenty of others as well, each a testament to Apple’s continuing dominance of the smartphone and tablet markets. After the jump, a quick rundown of all the metrics trotted out this morning.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 2, 2011 at 9:32 am PT
To the strains of “Here Comes The Sun,” ailing Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage and, after a progress report on the Apple ecosystem, introduced the iPad 2–faster, thinner and camera-equipped. Also unveiled: Updates to iOS, iMovie and GarageBand.
