Will Apple launch the ‘iPhone X’ in 2017? This curious name is suggested in the latest reports from the supply chains working on the smartphone hardware for Cupertino. Apple could be ready to drop the ‘8’ from the brand and go with something straight out of a 1950s Science Fiction caper.

Source: New Apple Rumor Reveals Mysterious iPhone

“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