While the content of Steve Jobs’ second open letter, on Apple’s green record and future plans, is interesting on its own, his motivation for publishing these missives is equally intriguing. It could be argued that his first post was designed to put pressure on the record companies over DRM —certainly his statement that Apple would […]

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With the exception, perhaps, of Jonathan Ive, no-one at Apple worked harder and contributed more to help Steve Jobs rebuild the company than Fred Anderson. It was Anderson, appointed CFO the year before Jobs’ return, who resolved the major liquidity crisis that Apple faced in the mid-nineties, when it was in debt to the tune […]

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I had a chance to play with an Apple TV over the weekend and, much to my surprise, I was impressed. I have been as sceptical as anyone in the weeks since the Apple TV was announced. It just about makes sense in the US where there’s is a reasonable amount of movie and […]

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Macworld UK has a story today headlined ‘Vodafone denies iPhone partner plan’. But reading the story fails to turn up any sort of denial. The only quote from a Vodafone representative calls the rumour ‘pure speculation.’ In my experience ‘pure speculation’ is the phrase companies use when they’re in negotiation but can’t comment publicly. ‘No, […]

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The BBC’s director of Future Media and Technology, Ashley Highfield, has announced that the corporation’s iPlayer will be re-engineered to work with the Mac.
The iPlayer, the BBC’s tool for viewing content from its archive on-demand was originally designed to work with Microsoft’s Windows and Internet Explorer.
Highfield, speaking at an industry conference in Cannes, said Apple’s […]

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Sometimes even the most ridiculous post can appear credible, if it’s written with enough conviction and published on a reputable site. So when I read this post on MacNN, it took a while before I realised quite how nonsensical it is.
The post goes like this; Intel has, according to Chinese tech site, HKEPC, announced that […]

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Jonathan Ive, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, has been named as the 11th most influential non-elected person in Britain by The Guardian newspaper.

Ive was sandwiched between the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and the General Secretary of the TUC, Brendan Barber. He beat Harry Potter author, JK Rowling by two places, but […]

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When Apple Corps lost its battle with Apple Inc. in the High Court in London last year, it was Neil Aspinall who stepped forward and said: “With great respect to the trial judge, we consider he has reached the wrong conclusion. We felt that during the course of the trial we clearly demonstrated just how […]

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We’ve become accustomed to commercials for Apple products which do little more than give a brief hint of what the product is or what it can do, but the first ad for the Apple TV is even more brief than most. ‘It’s on your computer. It’s on your iPod. Now it’s on your TV’ is […]

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Reports of a new hardware H.264 encoder from Elgato have been circulating for a few days. But a quick check of the Elgato website turns up nothing. No press release, no product info, no pics. Nothing.

Turns out however, that the reports are true and the Turbo.264 will ship in April for £69. In a nutshell […]

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