Jordan Golson

Adobe is expanding its suite of iOS apps with >CreatePDF, a universal app that takes files in a number of different formats and converts them to PDFs. This ensures that formatting and document layouts are preserved when passing them on to coworkers or clients. The app uses Adobe's online PDF creation service to do the heavy lifting. Some apps, including the iWork apps from Apple, already...

Apple filed a form 8-K with the SEC because of the changes in corporate leadership at the company. An 8-K is the “current report” companies must file with the SEC to announce major events that shareholders should know about. In this case, the form notifies investors of the resignation of Steve Jobs as CEO; Jobs' appointment as Chairman of the Board; COO Tim Cook's promotion to CEO; and the ...

Apple's New York City retail stores will be closing this weekend ahead of Hurricane Irene's possible landfall over the city. NYC's mass transit system is shutting down by noon on Saturday, which will make it extremely difficult for both employees and customers to get to the stores. Employees who answered the phone at SoHo, Upper West Side, West 14th Street, and Staten Island confirmed that...

Dominique Leca, the co-founder of the much-loved Sparrow mail client, tells Business Insider that his team is working on an iPhone version of Sparrow. BI: Isn't one of Apple's rules for the mobile App Store that you can't "duplicate functionality"? DL: Yes, but on the Mac, they can't really apply it, so you've got a way out. You can license your software without being considered a rogue...

PopCap games is offering Bejeweled 2 + Blitz for free through Sunday morning, as part of a FreeAppADay promotion. Bejeweled has been a $0.99 app for nearly a year, but was $2.99 before that. It was one of the first major apps to be launched on the iPhone, selling for $9.99 in August of 2008. PopCap claims Bejeweled is the world's most popular puzzle game, and is a big part of why Electronic...

Marc Benioff, founder of the highly successful Salesforce.com, shared with Bloomberg that Steve Jobs has been a very helpful mentor to Benioff and his company -- and how he returned the favor by giving Jobs a very generous gift: the App Store trademark and domain name. John Gruber recently said that Steve Jobs' ">greatest creation is Apple itself, but his impact goes well beyond that. Jobs is...

Comex, the hacker behind JailbreakMe.com, is joining Apple as an intern. JailbreakMe.com made it extremely easy for iOS users to jailbreak their devices simply by visiting a website. He announced the hiring on Twitter: It's been really, really fun, but it's also been a while and I've been getting bored. So, the week after next I will be starting an internship with Apple.Forbes unmasked Comex as...

In a wide-ranging interview with VentureBeat about his experiences with Steve Jobs, former Apple employee Michael Dhuey, now at Cisco, shared several instances where Jobs' unique expectations were especially memorable. Dhuey recalls that people would dread getting into an elevator with Jobs. If you got on at the 4th floor, you’d better have captivated him by the time you got off on the 1st....

SPY mouse is the latest game from Firemint, the Australian developer behind Real Racing and Flight Control. In the game, players guide Agent Squeak through 72 levels on 6 worlds, gathering up precious cheese. The control scheme is very similar to Flight Control, with players tracing Squeak's path through the various levels, swiping to avoid obstacles, cats, and using "zany gadgets, gizmos...

It's not just pilots who are finding iPads help them at work. Football players are too. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have given all 90 of their players iPad 2s, loaded with playbooks, and practice and situational videos from any NFL team. The iPads are considerably easier to use, and carry around, than thick books the size of Yellow Pages, and spending hours sitting around a projector watching...

Steve Jobs had been on medical leave for 7 months when he resigned as CEO today, saying in a letter that he would be the first to admit it "if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO. Unfortunately, that day has come." In his article about the resignation, Adam Satariano writes for Bloomberg about Jobs' recent health and his activities...

Steve Jobs will remain on the board of directors at The Walt Disney Company, according to Bloomberg TV. Jobs owns more than 7 percent of Disney from its acquisition of Pixar in 2006 and received a seat on the board in that deal. He is Disney's largest...

Tim Cook, Apple's new CEO following the resignation of Steve Jobs, graduated from Auburn University in 1982 with a degree in Industrial Engineering. Cook is a huge Auburn fan and has lots of memorabilia in both his home and office. My most significant discovery so far in my life was the result of one single decision, my decision to join Apple. Working at Apple was never in any plan that I'd...

Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple in a letter to Apple's Board of Directors. In his letter, Steve asks to remain Chairman of the Board and appoints Tim Cook as his successor. The board has approved these requests, effective immediately. Jobs will still be "active" at Apple and is expected to continue to be involved with company strategy. To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple...

Documentary film producer and web developer Steve Rosenbaum's "The 9/11 Memorial: Past, Present and Future" app is an interactive look at the history of the World Trade Center. It chronicles the original development of the towers, the 9/11 attacks, and the lengthy rebuilding process of the memorial and museum. The New York Observer reports the app will have 400 still photographs and hours of ...

Autodesk just released Motion FX, a nifty app that lets users apply dozens of real-time effects to videos, like smoke, fire or rainbow plasma. The software grabs live video, either from the Mac's built-in iSight or FaceTime camera, or via an external camera. Motion FX does the rest. Simply select your favorite preset effect, and create an incredible visual experience by moving in front of your ...

The iTunes Store is giving away the Red Hot Chili Peppers' latest album for free, in a manner of speaking. iTunes is serving up a stream of the entire album for free, and accepting pre-orders for the disc, which will be released on August 30 [iTunes]. We can't remember Apple offering up an entire album via streaming before. It's likely that RHCP's record label is paying a hefty price to...

Techspansion, Tyler Loch's now-defunct company that created VisualHub, has released a small update to the software to allow it to run properly -- for the moment -- under OS X Lion. VisualHub was a very popular OS X application to convert video files to any number of formats, including optimizing video for iTunes, WMV, or Flash. In 2008, Tyler closed the company and stopped selling or...

Apple has lowered the price of a refurbished entry-level 16GB iPad 1 to $299. The price seems to have been dropped this weekend and is the lowest price we've seen for an iPad direct from Apple. All Apple's refurbished products come with the same warranty as new ones and include a new battery and aluminum outer shell. This weekend HP slashed the price of its now-cancelled TouchPad tablet...

Square has updated its very popular credit-card charging app for small businesses and released the Square Card Case, announced this past May. The Square app has been updated to improve transaction speed, add support for $0.00 price points (so merchants can keep track of notes on orders like 'no cheese') and stopped requiring signatures for purchases under $25. As for the new Square Card...