March 16th, 2011
Apparently, Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Steve Jobs (Apple) get on quite well. Not exactly holidaying together but respectful of what the other has brought to the technology industry. In public at least. Yes there’s rivalry. And yes there’s the occasional – mostly playful – sniping, between the companies most-obviously in Apple’s recent “Mac v PC” [...]
November 3rd, 2010
So I’ve spent the entire day in front of a computer. And I’ll probably spend a great deal of this evening in front of a computer too. From writing emails, to the usual Facebooking, writing this blog (as you can see) and, at some point, chatting to the other half (we’re not odd – well, [...]
October 22nd, 2010
Ok, first things first – I will make a *real* effort to write about nothing even remotely Apple-related next week. Not sure if I’ll manage it… but I’ll try my best. Anyway… after initially announcing it in January and it being dubbed the “iPad killer” by Uncle Fester, sorry Steve Ballmer, the boss at Microsoft, [...]
October 22nd, 2010
Now I have no definite statistics on this but we must surely be getting to the point where there are more virtual than actual farmers in the world? In excess of 60 million people play FarmVille and, according to the developers Zynga, players receive more than 500,000 gifts in the game each day. Do you [...]
September 28th, 2010
Now this looks familiar. Today Research in Motion (RIM), makers of BlackBerry smartphones, announced something expected for quite some time: their own tablet computer. The only real surprise was the name. Almost everybody in the tech press agreed the device would be called the BlackPad, so the name PlayBook came as something of a surprise. [...]
August 17th, 2010
…or maybe it’s just me. “Eye of the tiger”, the Rocky classic by Survivor, played by a bunch of guys using nothing but iPads as musical instruments… oh, and occasionally spinning on their heads. The apps they used are: Real Drums Pro Keys Baby Scratch Guitar Mania (I’ve found these links myself based on information [...]
April 29th, 2010
Adobe, this is your ass. Apple just handed it to you on a plate. The following is an ‘open letter’ that Apple boss Steve Jobs has posted onto the company’s web site this afternoon. Expect Adobe’s share price to drop… and drop…
April 13th, 2010
Now the fight gets a little more interesting. In the red corner we have Apple. Champions of industrial design. Noted control freaks. And, frankly, one of the few companies pushing the boundaries in consumer technology at the moment. In the blue corner we have Adobe. The people who brought you Photoshop, Illustrator and, of course, [...]
January 28th, 2010
So Apple finally announced it’s latest gadget – the iPad. Possibly the most-eagerly awaited tablet since Moses was on the scene (© All today’s newspapers), the iPad is – in layman’s terms – an VERY BIG iPhone… but without the phone bit. It’s a touchscreen device for reading books, surfing the web, emailing, playing games, watching [...]