When Apple updated its iPhone product line last week, one of the major new hardware upgrades was the M7 motion sensing chip.

In addition to the business and personal computing worlds, tablets are becoming a highly visible and important part of the educational landscape in this country.

When the new MacBook Air with Intel Haswell technology came out in June, it received sterling reviews from many technology publications for its great battery life, processing speed and the performance of its solid state drive (SSD).

On Tuesday, Apple held an event at its Cupertino, California, campus to announce updates to its iPhone line, as well as the release date for iOS 7, the next iteration of the company's popular mobile operating system.