“New Year’s Day was the “busiest single day ever,” according to the Mac maker, generating $240 million in sales”

Source: Apple’s App Store had a monster 2016

Source: Estimote uses their new mesh network of BLE beacons to decorate a yuletide tree | TechCrunch

Everyone knows the holiday season means three things: family, friends and interconnected low-energy Bluetooth devices connected using a simple mesh network. Estimote, a beacon company, has given us the last thing by creating a small mesh network of wireless beacons that they proceed to hang on a Christmas tree.

The new beacons run Bluetooth Low Energy and connect to each other automatically. They last for years on one battery and can be programmed to expand a BLE network throughout an entire area, each beacon handing off to the next as necessary.

Here’s this year’s complete Boing Boing Gift Guide: more than a hundred great ideas for prezzies: technology, toys, books and more. Scroll down and buy things, mutants! Many of the item…

Source: Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016 / Boing Boing

Software company’s mission is to enable storytelling, its CEO says

Source: Creative Cloud updates highlighted by Adobe 

Do you fancy picking up an iPhone with a hundred-dollar discount? Or would you rather feel the security of buying your next smartphone direct from Apple? Now you can do both, as Apple puts its refurbished iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S models on sale in the Apple Store with a significant discount.

Source: Apple’s Secret iPhone Discount