Apple’s market cap has been growing quite a bit over the past couple of years—everyone knows this—and it has been neck-and-neck with Exxon Mobil, and the world’s most valuable technology company. Still, by hitting a record-high market cap of $400 billion yesterday, Apple is worth more than some countries…

At its education event, Apple made significant updates to a number of their education products. iBooks has been updated to version 2, and includes support for textbooks, while iTunes U is now its own iPad app. The biggest news (we think) is the new iBooks Author app for the Mac. Not only is it free, but enables anyone to create rich content…

After about a year and a half, AT&T is going to change its iPhone and iPad data plans again. Previously, the plans consisted 200MB for $15, 2GB for $25, or 4GB for $45 w/tethering. Users who had the long-discontinued unlimited for $30 plan have recently been experiencing throttling if they go over 2GB of data per month. The new plans are only slight increases, in both prices and allotments…

We’ve had pretty good reliability on our site—we’ve only had some downtime due to server upgrades or major relaunches, but we’re shutting things down on Wednesday, January 18 to protest SOPA and PIPA, two bills that are designed to stop Internet piracy (good), but have a lot of other implications, including censorship (bad)…

Earlier this week, there was talk that Target would be adding a dedicated Apple area in a number of its stores, much like Best Buy, and more details emerged today. Reuters is reporting (via MacRumors) that twenty-five Target stores will get dedicated Apple shops, as part of its “the Shops at Target” initiative…

Hinted at last week, Apple will be holding an event in New York City on Thursday, January 19. The event will begin at 10AM Eastern and take place at the Guggenheim Museum…