Apple

Apple recently placed 17th place in Fortune’s annual ratings of the top 500 largest corporations in America – a position 18 spots higher than last year’s 35th place finish. The company was able to offer a dividend for the first time since 1995 after strong year-over-year revenue growth which saw earnings per share nearly doubling in 2011 compared to 2010.

The iPhone maker’s performance ...

If you don’t suffer from a deadly case of “oneupsmanship” Apple’s latest retooling of their refurbished iPad and iPad 2 pricing might suit your fancy.

A refurbished 16GB WiFiiPad can now be had for as little as $279. The 16GB Wi-Fi iPad 2 costs $319. The 3G equivalents still hold a $130 premium over their WiFi counterparts however.



The lower prices are likely in response ...

Attached above is the letter Apple greets recent corporate hires with on their first day of work.

The letter can be interpreted a few ways:

1. This is the inspirational beginning of something special and the culmination of years of schooling and professional experience. The work will be challenging, but game changing and the compensation makes iit worth it.

2. This is your indoctrination into the Jobsian way of life. You will be over worked ...

Last year, the corporate powers that be at Amtrak decided to begin equipping their conductors with company-issued iPhones. Passengers, however, didn't initially reap the benefits of Amtrak's adoption of technology. But that will change this summer.

According to an announcement this week by Amtrak, passengers will soon be able to print tickets or "load a special bar code" on their smartphone screens. ...

Of all the Notification Center widgets being released into Cydia since iOS 5’s launch, this new one, dubbed SimpleWiFi for Notification Center by iOS developer Pascal, allows you to see some critical Wi-Fi information right from Notification Center including the name of your Internet access point (SSID) and your local IP address. The widget is also very small, taking up just a small amount of space and keeping your Notification Center looking as spiffy ...

A lot of themes and tweaks change the appearance many different features of iOS, but a new jailbreak tweak dubbed VolumeColor by iOS developers PrimeCode and CoolStar allows you to go a step further and change the color of your Volume HUD (heads up display) from a list of pre-defined colors. The appearance of the Volume HUD when the color is changed is illustrated by the screenshot examples above.

The preferences pane, pictured below, ...

It's been the subject of heated debate around MMi for well over six months.

At first, many believed that the last iPhone refresh (what would become the iPhone 4S) would carry the moniker "iPhone 5." Of course, we all know now that the "iPhone 5" was never used as the promotional branding of the most recent iPhone.

This reality has led some to wonder if the next refresh will be the iPhone 5. Or, ...

About two months ago, Adobe released a public beta for Adobe Photoshop CS6. A month later, Adobe announced Adobe Creative Suite 6. Now, Adobe Creative Suite 6 is finally available and can be purchased from Adobe's Web site and shipped. The updated suite comes with After Effects, Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro (more smalls included). Like most Adobe ...

[As always, jailbreakers should proceed with caution and know to avoid updating if you are presently running a jailbroken device]

On Monday, Apple released iOS 5.1.1. Seemingly more bug, performance, and security glitch-related than the last iOS update from March, which delivered Japanese language support for Siri and lock screen access to the iDevice's native Camera application, here's what Apple ...

Here are the best jailbreak creations for the week of April 30th until today, May 6th as per the opinion of our staff. This is a weekly recap.

1. SwipeSelection - FREE

SwipeSelection is a new free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Kyle Howells. The tweak makes text editing from iOS (especially the iPad) much less cumbersome by allowing for keyboard-based mutitouch gestures instead of having to tap and pan across the large screen. The tweak is fully compatible with the ...

Apple’s multitasking includes some pretty nice animations for when you switch between one application and another. Unforunately, they don’t give you any options for how the animation should look. At least on Mac OS X, Apple gives you the ability to change the animations for how windows should be minimized. Well now, a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed VertaSwitch by iOS developer PrimeCode gives you the ability to have a different multitasking ...