If you’re like most of the tech world, you’re waxing nostalgic about Steve Jobs now that he’s resigned as Apple CEO. To help us all remember the journey, TheNextWeb has assembled 10 of Jobs’ most memorable video appearances, all in one place. READ MORE
The patent battle between Apple and Samsung seems to have taken a scene from the Theater of the Absurd. In response to Apple’s claim that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 had “slavishly copied” Apple’s iPad, Samsung has provided its own, er, evidence: images from Stanley Kubrik’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, which show two astronauts using personal tablet computers. That’s right, folks, movie evidence. READ MORE
Erply is taking on Square, Intuit and VeriFone with a new mobile credit card reader for iOS devices, reports Leena Rao for TechCrunch. READ MORE
Apple may invest $1.3 billion in a Japanese Sharp factory to secure a steady supply of LCD screens for its iPhones and iPad tablets. READ MORE
Evernote has added another app in its arsenal of note-taking tools. The company announced that it has acquired Skitch, an OS X image-sharing app. Skitch, which currently sells for $20 in the Mac App Store, lets users add visual notes to images than can then be saved to a PC or uploaded. READ MORE
Apple has ordered key components for its next version of the iPad and is aiming to launch it in early 2012, sources familiar with the situation told The Wall Street Journal. READ MORE
Another school year is right around the corner, which usually means there’s plenty of back-to-school shopping to be had. However, rather than buy notebooks, pencils, highlighters, and calculators, students can replace all of their school needs with a slew of instrumental, easy-to-use apps for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. READ MORE
Could this be the first step in moving all magazines to digital tablet-format? Google released a free iPad app called Google Catalogs, which allows users to window shop familiar glossy print publications that were previously exclusive to print magazines, such as Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel, L.L. Bean, and others. READ MORE
Yesterday, we reported on Hewlett-Packard’s miserable TouchPad sales, and how retailers are particularly unhappy with the tablets and wished HP to take them back. Well, it looks like they got their wish, and then some. HP has decided not only to take back and discontinue production of its TouchPads, but in a stunning move, the company has also decided to discontinue all WebOS operations in general. This means that the company will cease production on tablets, phones, and all devices that run WebOS. READ MORE
Customers looking to buy a new tablet overwhelmingly want the Apple iPad, according to a report released Wednesday. READ MORE
