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After making soft landing in Australia and New Zealand earlier last month and missed out the July 18 global launch date, PopCap Games has finally launched the Plants vs Zombies 2 game at iTunes App Store. The game is now available as free download for iOS devices including iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Android users have to wait a little longer. Plants vs Zombies 2 : It’s About Time  has similar classic gameplay, just that now you have to defend the lawn from brain-eating zombies through time. There are three new worlds to explore - The Wild West, Ancient Egypt, and The Future. There are more than 60 levels to play with. Expect to see new plants and zombies. Plus, the game introduces plant food to supercharge your plants and you can get rid of zombies using your finger power. You can use your fingers to pinch, flick and zap zombies off your lawn. Unlike the original Plants vs Zombies game which costs $0.99 to purchase, the sequel is free for download...

While iPhone 5 has been generating a buzz in Malaysia ahead of its launch on December 14, Apple Malaysia has quietly launched the iPad mini and new iPad with Retina Display in its online store. Both tablets are also on sale at Apple Reseller Stores. You can get your unit of iPad mini or the fourth generation iPad with Retina Display today if you queue up at nearby Apple Reseller store. Take Machines for example, both tablets are available at all Machines stores, except Lot 10 (no stock for iPad mini) and JB (no stock for both models). However, stocks are currently limited to Wi-Fi models only. For more info, go to Machines’s Facebook page . If you can wait for 2 weeks to get your hands on iPad mini or Wi-Fi + Cellular version iPad with Retina Display (Wi-Fi version only takes 1 to 3 business days), then you can order the device from Online Apple Store. No worry, Christmas is 2 and a half week more. Every customer can purchase at most 2 unit of each device. Here’s th...

We’re just hours away from one of the biggest announcements Apple will make this year. Riding on a tsunami of rumours and speculations, the new iPad will make its global debut in San Francisco at 10AM PST on Wednesday, March 7 or 2AM on Thursday, March 8, our time. We’ll be up to catch the latest and you’re up for it here are the live blogs we recommend you follow. The Verge Engadget Gizmodo Gdgt Ars technical Focus will certainly be on the new features and innovations that the new iPad will bring. Punters are definitely not short on ideas on what to speculate. Some of the more prominent ones include: The name: Reports claim that the new iPad will not be called the “iPad 3” as largely thought but rather will be called the “iPad HD” due to the high-res display. Our prediction: Apple is going to stick with the numerical moniker for the new iPad. Adding “HD” into the name goes against Apple’s overly simplistic approach towards everything and it also suggests a diffe...

Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short. The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 250,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games. New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind. Steve Jobs April, 2010 Thoughts on FLASH Symbolic: Steve Jobs vs The Flash. Apple has a...

Apple concluded its Q4 financial report earlier this morning and as usual, the numbers are phenomenal. What makes the figures even more amazing is that they surpass even the most optimistic of estimates affirming Apple’s position as the largest technology company by market value in the world. Apple sold 15.4 million iPads and a staggering 37 million iPhones, making the last quarter its best ever. These are certainly impressive numbers but what does it all mean? Let’s put these figures into perspective. Market value of almost $400 billion Apple is hovering just a whisker off its record high. Many on Wall Street target $550 to $600 per share as an achievable milestone: assuming no change in existing shares, that would accord the Silicon Valley titan a value of as much as $560 billion, equivalent to the annual Gross Domestic Product of Switzerland. Exxon has a market value of $420 billion, annual revenue about four times Apple’s and twice the tech company’s roughly 46,000...

  Evolution of Apple Products (2001-2011) http://media02.hongkiat.com/apple-evolution-infographic/index.html Ever wonder the invention date of your iPod? Well, it’s 2001! Not only iPod, in this infographic you will get to know every famous product that Apple has released in these 11 years. Have a fun time finding the birth year of your favorite Apple gadget, and maybe you’ll know the year that you became the firm believer of the Apple!

I think this is important data, it shows the Apple's Financial History and Timeline during all these years. Financial period Net sales (Mil USD) Net profits (Mil USD) Revenue growth Return on net sales FY 1981 335 unknown --- --- FY 1982 583 61 74% 10% FY 1983 983 77 69% 8% FY 1984 1,516 64 54% 4% FY 1985 1,918 61 27% 3% FY 1986 1,902 154 -1% 8% FY 1987 2,661 218 40% 8% FY 1988 4,071 400 53% 10% FY 1989 5,284 454 30% 9% FY 1990 5,558 475 5% 9% FY 1991 6,309 310 12% 20% FY 1992 7,087 530 12% 7% FY 1993 7,977 87 13% 1% FY 1994 9,189 310 46% 3% FY 1995 11,062 424 20% 4% FY 1996 9,833 -816 -11% -8% FY 1997 7,081 -1,045 -28% -15% FY 1998 5,941 309 -16% 5% FY 1999 6,134 601 3% 10% FY 2000 7,983 786 30% 10% FY 2001 5,363 -25 -33% 0% FY 2002 5,247 65 -2% 1% FY 2003 6,207 57 18% 1% FY 2004 8,279 ...

Goodbye to SteveJobs, look at history he made to Apple and also our human being. With the resignation of Steve Jobs, Apple has lost both a product visionary and outspoken leader. This timeline is an ode to the ideas and words of perhaps the greatest technological revolutionary of the past century.

Steve Jobs, the mind behind the iPhone, iPad and other devices that turned Apple Inc. into one of the world's most powerful companies, resigned as the company's CEO on Wednesday, saying he can no longer handle the job. The move appears to be the result of an unspecified medical condition for which he took an indefinite leave from his post in January. Apple's chief operating officer, Tim Cook, has been named CEO. In a letter addressed to Apple's board and the "Apple community," Jobs said he "always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come." Jobs' health has long been a concern for Apple investors who see him as an industry oracle who seems to know what consumers want long before they do. After his announcement, Apple stock quickly fell 5.4 percent in after-hours trading. The company said Jobs gave ...