Dave Caolo

Managing Editor

For six years, Dave worked as the IT Director of a Mac-friendly, residential school in rural Massachusetts and has been writing for the Web professionally since 2001. Today, Dave is an editor at TUAW where he's blogged since 2004. He's also the author of two books from FT Press: Using Your iPad as a Business Productivity Tool and Using Your iPhone as a Business Productivity Tool.

Dave believes that technology has the power to improve our life at its most important moments, and explores that conviction every day.

A native of Scranton, Pa (Yes, just like on The Office), Dave moved to Cape Cod, Ma in 1994. When he's not writing, Dave can be found kayaking, rooting for the Boston Red Sox and spending time with his wife, two kids and Boston Terrier, Batgirl.

Dave Caolo's Latest Posts

Apple to appeal ruling in Italian court

by Dave Caolo (Dec 30th 2011 1:00PM)

Earlier this week, Apple was fined for poor communication of its warranty policies in an Italian court. Today, Apple has stated that it will appeal that ruling, according to The Register. Apple was fined 900,000 Euros (approximately US$1.2 million) for failing to inform customers that they may ...

Argentina Government blocks sale of iPhone, other smartphones

by Dave Caolo (Dec 28th 2011 2:00PM)

The government of Argentina has temporarily blocked the sale of smartphones, including Apple's iPhone, in an effort to stabilize its own economy. This consumer electronics ban is meant to slow inflation and reduce the widening chasm between the peso and the US dollar. The ban is a part of ...

UK Prime Minister to receive personalized iPad app for government news

by Dave Caolo (Dec 28th 2011 10:00AM)

UK Prime Minister and long time iPad fan David Cameron will receive a custom iPad app for keeping on top of government news, according to The Telegraph. Cabinet Office programmers have been working on the app that will deliver information such as crime stats, unemployment numbers and much more to ...

Thunderbolt PC motherboards on the way for Q2

by Dave Caolo (Dec 27th 2011 11:00AM)

DigiTimes reports that Intel plans to "fully release" Thunderbolt technology in April of 2012, and that many "top-tier PC vendors" are readying Thunderbolt-ready motherboards. Apple has shipped Thunderbolt-compatible devices, including the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac mini, iMac, the ...

Apple fined in Italy for poor communication around warranty policy

by Dave Caolo (Dec 27th 2011 10:00AM)

Apple has been fined 900 thousand Euros by the Italian Antitrust Authority [Google translation], citing unfair business practices against consumers. Specifically, the ruling cites two offenses against Apple, Apple Sales International and Apple Retail Italy. First, the judgement says that Apple's ...

Preliminary assessment: Apple unlikely to secure Galaxy Tab 10.1N ban in Germany

by Dave Caolo (Dec 22nd 2011 2:00PM)

A preliminary assessment in a German court this week suggests that Apple probably won't secure a ban of the Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1N in that country. The court believes that the recently-redesigned Tab 10.1N has "...moved away sufficiently from the legally protected design," said Judge Johanna ...

Steve Jobs awarded posthumous special Grammy

by Dave Caolo (Dec 22nd 2011 10:15AM)

Steve Jobs has been awarded a posthumous Grammy by the Recording Academy. On Wednesday the group announced the winners of its 2012 Special Merit Awards, including musician Dave Bartholomew, recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder and Steve Jobs. Jobs, Bartholomew and Van Gelder were awarded the ...

Google Voice for iOS updated with multi-party text, more

by Dave Caolo (Dec 21st 2011 2:40PM)

Google has pushed an update to Google Voice for iPhone (free) which offers multi-recipient texting, full support for Sprint and one-touch copy/paste in the dial pad, among other things. The big news is that Sprint iPhone owners can now "send calls to the native dialer," as the app description ...

Kindle for iOS updated gives iPad users access to Kindle Fire's magazine collection

by Dave Caolo (Dec 21st 2011 10:30AM)

The Kindle app for iPhone and iPad (free, universal) has been updated to version 2.9, giving iPad users access to the Kindle Fire's collection of more than 400 magazines and newspapers. You can buy individual issues or subscriptions, which will be delivered to the device when available. Note that ...

Apple's founding contract sells for nearly $1.6 million

by Dave Caolo (Dec 14th 2011 11:30AM)

Last month we learned Sotheby's would auction off an original Apple contract signed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. Experts expected it to fetch around $100,000 - $150,000. Turns out they were way off, because the document sold for almost 1.6 million bucks. When the auction ...