Late last year, workers in a Chinese factory, toiling to polish the back of iPads, were the victims of an enormous explosion. Apple’s industrial blast killed four and injured over 50. Today, many worker…

Here are some numbers to blow your mind: The original Macintosh, released in 1984, had a monochrome 512 × 342 pixel display. That was 175,104 points. Today, the icons on iOS are 512 x 512 pixels, drawn…

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. This week the Chevy Volt lit up the newswires after GM announced plans to temporarily halt its production — …

We’re still not sure how iTether temporarily snuck into the App Store the first time around, but the developers behind that software have returned with a new version that skirts Apple’s guidelines entirely. While Tether.com has standard apps available…

If you were keeping score during Apple’s iPad keynote on Wednesday, you noticed AT&T and Verizon listed amongst the carriers that will get the new iPad, but what about Sprint? It’s going to be rockin’ LTE in the not-too-distant future, after all….

Did you wait too long to pull the trigger on a pre-order for Apple’s newest iPad? Well, it looks like you’ll have to join the rest of the US-based iStragglers and settle for a later ship date. The Cupertino-born slate, initially set for a March 16th r…

Were you hoping to pre-order a new iPad from Apple and receive it on launch day (March 16)? Guess what, you’re already too late. The earliest ship date for new pre-orders at this point is March 19th. O…

Looks like SXSW isn’t the only thing happening in Austin. The Apple machine is rolling in, but this time it’s not the Cupertino outfit filling us in on the deets. Outspoken Texas Governor Rick Perry says that one of Apple’s next creations will be a $…

Cupertino would like to formally thank you for your interest in iWork.com, but before the summer’s through, it’s hoping you’ll be stuck with your head firmly in the iCloud. Apple sent an email notice out this week, letting iWork.com users know that, a…

Most of the news around Austin this week is centered around SXSW, naturally, but Texas Governor (and erstwhile presidential candidate) Rick Perry broke some news today that’s unrelated, but still Austin-relevant. Apple, it seems, which has been slowly growing its presence in the state’s tech oasis, chose SXSW weekend as an auspicious time to announce a major new campus in Austin.