Making a Time Machine Volume Bootable

February 6, 2008

Time Machine is easily my favourite Leopard feature. For the first time I have a regular, automatic backup routine that runs in the background and never confronts me with annoying dialogue boxes whinging about how it was unable to back up my data (that’s you Retrospect, that is). Add to that the ease with which [...]

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Apple launches new iPhone and iPod touch

February 5, 2008

iPhone capacity upgraded to 16GB and touch storage doubled to 32GB. More on MacUser.

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The Trouble with DAB

February 5, 2008

Digital Spy reports that a Rajar announcement at the end of last week puts DAB’s share of the radio listening audience in the UK at 10%, up from 8.5% in the previous quarter. That’s a significant leap and when put next to the sales figures for DAB radio in the run up to Christmas – [...]

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FaceBook IPO in 2008?

February 1, 2008

The Wall Street Journal reports that FaceBook’s Mark Zuckerberg held an open conference call yesterday to discuss the company’s 2007 financials – highly unusual for a private company. Among the highlights: Revenue for 2007 $150m Projected revenue for 2008 $300 – $350m Projected pre-tax earnings for 2008 $50m Pretty good for a four-year old start-up.

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Microsoft offers $45bn for Yahoo

February 1, 2008

In a move that lots of people did see coming, the BBC reports today that Microsoft has offered $45bn to buy Yahoo. The price represents a 64% mark-up on Yahoo’s current share price and comes at a time when the company is seriously struggling. Profits for the Oct-Dec 2007 quarter were down 23%, former chief [...]

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Amazon buys Audible for $300m

January 31, 2008

In a ‘that’s so obvious why didn’t we see it coming’ move, Amazon has acquired audio book seller, Audible for $300m. Given that the company sells paper books, and has recently made a huge leap into the eBook market with Kindle, adding the world’s biggest library of audio books to its portfolio would seem like [...]

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On Qtrax

January 28, 2008

Amongst the flurry of publicity surrounding the launch of free, legal, peer-to-peer music service, Qtrax, one or two things were easy to miss. Such as: The Mac version won’t be available til March 18 Despite QTrax’s claims, so far the only major label to have actually signed up is Sony BMG. Tracks feature DRM which [...]

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Virgin Galactic launches SpaceShipTwo design

January 24, 2008

Virgin Galactic has launched the final design of the SpaceShipTwo, its passenger carrying rocket spaceliner. The image above shows SpaceShipTwo being carried by White Kinight Two, the plane which will carry it upwards before it is launched into space. Passengers paying $200,000 a head will be taken to an altitude of 110km where they will [...]

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Apple Quarter One Numbers

January 23, 2008

Another quarter, another set of stellar financials from Apple. Here are the important bits The only slight disappointment from the company’s point of view is the rather flat iPod sales. But it’s possible (probable?) that many people who would have bought an iPod bought an iPhone instead. From a personal point of view, I’m delighted [...]

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No, no, no, no

January 21, 2008

From my inbox today: ‘Your unborn baby on your iPhone Proud dads-to-be can now carry moving 4D baby scans of their unborn child everywhere they go on their iPhone or video iPod. 4D pregnancy scanning service Cocoon4D in central London has the technology to download images from 4D scans onto the portable devices for parents [...]

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