iPhone Air slimmer design highlights the Apple iPhone 17 launch
Monday, September 15, 2025 by Austin Harris
Apple introduced its iPhone 17 series at a Cupertino event, unveiling four new models including the iPhone 17 Air, which the company described as its “thinnest iPhone ever.” The new Air model is designed to be slimmer and lighter than past devices, while still offering a full-size display and upgraded internal hardware.
The event also showcased updates to A...
Monitor air pollution with an app and developer API
Friday, September 27, 2019 by Austin Harris
Monitoring your exposure to pollution due to wildfires just got much easier with the release BreezoMeter, an application helping users to plan ahead by utilizing the fire alerts functionality provided by their free mobile app. The movement of wildfire smoke is hard to predict. It's only recently been discovered that wildfire pollution travels much further than accou...
National Air and Space Museum releases VR Hangar App
Friday, December 22, 2017 by Austin Harris
People across the country and around the world can now use their mobile phones to see moments that made air and space history with the new VR Hangar from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The VR Hangar brings some of the museum’s most important milestone artifacts to life using real 3-D-scan data in immersive virtual-reality vignettes. The app is optimize...
AirMap secures $26M to become the air traffic controller for drones
Saturday, February 25, 2017 by Richard Harris
AirMap announced a $26 million Series B funding round led by Microsoft Ventures, with additional participation from Airbus Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures (the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated), Rakuten, Sony, Yuneec, and existing investors General Catalyst and Lux Capital. The new investment brings their total funding to more than $43 million. The Series B fund...
AirVisual's new air pollution data API is now available for developers
Tuesday, January 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
AirVisual is a company that provides the tools and information people need to thrive in polluted environments. By employing big data, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technologies, AirVisual delivers user-friendly, simple solutions to optimize health and well-being, both indoors and out.They just recently launched a groundbreaking new way to visualize...
Amazon Releases New Cross Platform Plugins for Unity, Adobe Air, and More
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon has developed a number of plugins for cross platform tools to allow mobile developers utilizing the Amazon platform to access Amazon Services without the need to write boilerplate code to bridge cross platform code with native language Amazon APIs. Amazon has recently released several new plugins for Apache Cordova, Unity, Adobe Air, and Xamarin to allow dev...
Target Stores Offer Special Trade in Deal For a New iPad Air
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 by Ron Beaman
I have to admit, I can be a bit miserly sometimes. Even though I love new gadgets, they can put a real crimp in the wallet, so I try to hold on to things as long as I can. No surprise then, that I've been struggling to find a way to upgrade from my first generation iPad. For those in this same boat, your struggle may be over. This week, Target is offering a special...
Apple Launches New iPad Air, Macbook Pro, Mac Pro, and Much More!
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 by Richard Harris
The event started with the same Apple commercial all about "Made by Apple" creation they played at the WWDC in June.
Tim Cook takes the stage and starts talking about all of the new things we'll see today.
He starts with some iPhone stats. He mentions 9 million iPhones sold first weekend of launch.
Video presentation starts created at an Apple retail store around...
