Archive for March, 2008

Has Apple become the world’s most important company?

Survey says yes


iPhone update adds YouTube support to Safari

Apple seeded a new version of the iPhone’s firmware to developers on Friday - and it appears to support a YouTube plug-in for Safari, as well as offering it as a standalone app


Get A Mac adverts on the Wall Street Journal

Apple’s US Get A Mac adverts just keep getting better - for proof check out this one


Peter Lorre isn’t really dead. And neither, thankfully, is The Jazz Butcher

For those who don’t know, Pat Fish aka The Jazz Butcher is very nearly the greatest English songwriter of the 1980s. As Alan McGee, the man who signed Oasis, put it: “He’s good a songwriter as I have heard in my life - ever. He has been criminally overlooked by a world obsessed with celebrity, not worth.”


101 nanotech products you can buy today

Prince Charles may have once claimed that nanotechnology threatened the very existence of life on this planet, but the reality is a lot more prosaic. Chocolate-flavour chewing gum, anyone?


Apple store goes offline. Again

Yes, Mac fans, the US Apple Store is currently offline, suggesting yet another round of giddying hardware and software updates. Or it could just be maintenance


Newton virus springs up on Mac

UK arty types Troika have come up with a piece of performance art that pretends to behave like a piece of Mac malware - but thankfully isn’t


Pioneer’s plasma TV pull-out - the truth

Pioneer’s range of ground-breaking Kuro TVs will be largely unaffected by the company’s announcement today that it is to cease plasma panel production


Is Apple working on its own version of Flash for iPhone?

Steve Jobs disses full-fat Flash and Flash lite, says “there’s this missing product in the middle”


Woz goes wild: attacks iPhone, MacBook Air and Apple TV

Apple co-founder Steve ‘Woz’ Wozniak has some choice words for former cohort and current Apple CEO Steve Jobs