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Republicans Are Voting Via iPads In Florida Primary

The iPad voting system from Everyone Counts.  Some voters in Florida’s Republican primary elections will be choosing the man they want in the White House with the touch of a finger using iPads. Although Lori Steele, Chairman & CEO of Everyone Counts, the company...

Here’s How Apple Controls Its Boardrooms From An iPad [MacWorld / iWorld 2012]

crestronSAN FRANCISCO, MACWORLD / iWORLD 2012 — Those brainstorming sessions that we’d all like to eavesdrop on at Apple are managed using an iPad system. In boardrooms on the Cupertino campus,  iPad controls from Crestron Electronics turn on the projector, lower the screen, load...

How The Real CSI Uses Apple For Cold Cases [Macworld / iWorld 2012]

Michael Rainy, digital composites and actual photo.SAN FRANCISCO, MACWORLD / iWORLD 2012 — Gregory Wyatt is a fast-talking coroner with a touch of gallows humor and a soft spot for cases involving kids. Wyatt is also the only “official” Mac user out of about...

How Virtual Reality Can Make Your Building Smarter [Macworld / iWorld 2012]

Wiekling and students during the presentation. @cultofmac.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAvPrZePEd4 SAN FRANCISCO, MACWORLD / iWORLD 2012 — Next time you’re nodding off at school or in the office because there’s too much C02 in the room, a sensor can open the window and wake you up. This...

These Apps Take Your iPhone Photos From Banal To Bliss [Macworld /iWorld 2012]

tumbSAN FRANCISCO, MACWORLD / iWORLD 2012 — If you want to create great photos from your iPhone, start by shooting everywhere. Including the dentist’s office or out the window of a friend’s bathroom. Photographer Jonathan Marks has snapped his evocative pics in both those...

Check Out The Original iPhone Film Festival Winners [Macworld 2012]

OIFF Founders at MacWorld. @Cultofmac.SAN FRANCISCO, MACWORLD / iWORLD 2012 — The inaugural edition of the Original iPhone Film Festival (OIFF) gave out awards to small-screen Steven Spielbergs. OIFF founders Corey Rogers & Matt Dessner were on hand to talk about common iPhone filmmaking...

How To Make iPhone Videos That Don’t Suck [Macworld / iWorld 2012]

SAN FRANCISCO, MACWORLD/IWORLD 2012 — If your iPhone videos are so lame that even your loved ones won’t watch them anymore, we’ve got some advice for you. Cult of Mac talked to Matt Dessner, co-founder of the Original iPhone Film Festival (OIFF),  about choosing...

iPhone Tutoring App To Offer Live Help [Exclusive]

nerdHelp on those tricky algebra problems could be a touchscreen away thanks to a new iPhone app. A company called Does That Make Sense? (DTMS, for short) plans to offer live help to students using Apple’s smartphones. Billing itself as the eBay of tutoring,...

How an iPad Helps Run a Therapist’s Office [Interview]

Psychotherapist Marcos Quinones.Psychotherapist Marcos Quinones has got streamlining a one-man office down to a science. Quinones, a former software developer, is a New York City-based cognitive behavioral therapist and licensed clinical social worker who runs his entire office on Apple gear. He credits the...

Execs: Apps, iPhones Sparked the “Arab Spring of IT”

mobile-devicesComparing uprisings in the Middle East to what happens when a manager brings his or her own iPhone to work seems like a bit of a stretch, but IT executives say the effect has provoked a similar shake-up. The people (read: employees) have brought...

Meet the iPad’s Unlikely Cheerleader: SAP CIO Oliver Bussman

SAP's Bussman and his iPad at Appnation Enterprise.Oliver Bussman, CIO of SAP, makes an unlikely cheerleader for Apple’s iPad — but one who is bound to get noticed. (If you’re now picturing him in a varsity sweater shaking pom-poms, sorry). But Bussman is unabashedly...

Publisher: Apple Rejects Our Apps Because They Don’t Understand Our Business

graysIf you’re frustrated that your app was rejected from the App Store, you are in good company. Scott Virkler, senior vice president of eProducts at global science and medical publishing behemoth Elsevier, had a few choice words about Apple’s approval process – and getting...