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The Bell is Tolling for Flash

One of the biggest complaints levelled at the iPad is that it lacks support for Adobe’s Flash. Flash is a software platform that allows addition of interactive web content and animation on the web. It is most commonly used to display video on the web and in the use of web applications such as games. Flash [...]

Enter the iPad

In 1997 as he resumed the helm at Apple Steve Jobs told a packed MacWorld audience that “We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose.”. Minutes prior to that statement Bill Gates, the Microsoft CEO, had appeared on the big-screen behind Jobs and confirmed Microsoft’s commitment [...]

iPad

Apple’s latest creation, the iPad, made its debut on the 26th ending the months (years?) or speculation that preceded it. For the Apple faithful this device represented a long harboured desire to see the Newton resurrected after its summary execution at the hands of Steve Jobs in 1997. Rumours of a hand-held computing device from [...]

Four things you need to know about Apple.

Mike Elgan writing over at Computer World.

Perhaps I don’t totally agree with all of his observations, but I love the fourth one. This seems to have a great deal of resonance with the profit versus market share theory that Apple applies to its products.

For example, among others John Gruber at Daring Fireball cites a report [...]

1000 people queue at Microsoft Store for…concert tickets

The OC Register reports that people were queuing to get into a new Microsoft store at an Orange County mall in order to get a show-bag containing free tickets to a concert my a Canadian pop star.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/microsoft-store-viejo-2628335-mission-first

Whatever you might think of Apple fanboys at least they are queuing for the products and the company, not [...]

Windows 7

Last week saw the release of Windows 7. It also saw Microsoft launch its new retail store strategy. Both events were covered widely by the tech media and rightly so since they are both worthy of note, but one really gets the feeling that both were further symptoms of the giant, Microsoft, stumbling further off kilter.

It [...]

iPhone goodness

There came a point some months ago when I realised that I couldn’t go on with the LG Viewty. It was as awful as the name and the $20 per month price tag would suggest. It had a touch screen that made life harder than easier, a web browser that was completely unusable and an [...]

Since I always try to keep finger on the pulse of the tech world, and particularly on Apple’s pulse, I have been reading a lot of reviews and reports about Snow Leopard.

While  all of the reviews I have read have gone something this: “Snow Leopard contains lots of under the bonnet improvements invisible to users [...]

The Apple Tablet

Some time ago I pondered the concept of an Apple netbook. The idea naturally occured to many other people and since then there has been a great deal of discussion on the topic. Even Apple weighed in with Phil Schiller essentially saying that Apple aren’t interested in the netbook market because they don’t believe that [...]

Fake Steve on Google Chrome

http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/lets-all-take-deep-breath-and-get-some.html

People are starting to realize that Google is not their friend, and that all this “free stuff” from Google is not about a) philanthropy, or b) keeping Microsoft honest, but really about c) helping Google gain even more control over what you do on the Internet. See a nice piece by John Paczkowski here for an [...]