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1. Steve Jobs determines smoking is injurious to your Mac

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Sunday, 22 November 2009

   PC thinking hits PCs A report in the Consumerist said that Apple is refusing to honor warranties on machines in houses where people smoke. The report quotes two readers that were told their warranties ...

2. Chrome OS: Lame Copy or Amazing new OS?

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   Depends on How Smart YOU Are Sometimes I wonder about new companies.   Apple and Google both have this way of bewitching people so that, no matter what they come out with, folks drool and say that’s wonderful.  ...

3. Analyst offers Apple tablet sneak peek

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   "Stunning" resolution and video conferencing A principal analyst at ITIC has claimed that the enigmatic Apple tablet will feature a 10-12 inch screen with "stunning resolution." 

According to Laura DiDio, ...

4. We didn't copy Windows 7 from Mac OS. Did we?

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   Unseemly row surfaces Microsoft has rebutted Microsoft statements that it based the look and feel of Windows 7 on the Apple Mac OS. Yesterday, a Microsoft manager said that what his company had tried ...

5. How TG Daily is put together

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   ...  The evil Dr Spinola is an atheistic old drunkard who hates Crackberrys, Linux, Apple and loves every bit of software made by Microsoft. He eats meat, preferably raw, and freshly killed. They bumped into ...

6. Apple plans iPhone lockdown

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 06 November 2009

   Jailbreakers beware Apple has apparently stepped up its efforts to thwart the ubiquitous practice of iPhone jailbreaking. Indeed, Club Cupertino is currently seeking a security expert who would be tasked ...

7. iPhone jailbreakers held hostage

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Wednesday, 04 November 2009

   ...  Their phones would still be safe but for the fact that Apple used a default root password which  many forget to change after jailbreaking. The hacker relied on unchanged root passwords to hack into ...

8. Why Apple should license Windows 7

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Tuesday, 03 November 2009

   ... ago someone saying the same thing about Apple moving to Intel or ever again licensing Microsoft technology at all and currently the MacOS runs on Intel and Apple has licensed Active Sync from Microsoft. ...

9. Is Windows 7 too good for Apple to FUD?

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Tuesday, 27 October 2009

   Opinion: Apple was blindsided by Windows 7. It wasn’t the product which they saw coming, it was the sustaining marketing budget and positive reviews from Apple loyalists like Walt Mossberg they ...

10. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ...  This is likely to point with Apple this month as they sit stunned that Windows 7 is doing so well and they are left looking foolish with products priced out of the segment. Their big news this week was ...

11. Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... endless blocks of time configuring the OS to fit my specifications. As such, Mac OS X began to seem like an appealing choice. Of course, I did, and still do have reservations about the Cult of Apple. ...

12. The best IT vendor CEO of the decade is...

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ... story is well known. He took a battered Apple Computer, revived it, inspired it, and led it to the greatness it once had in the 1980s and early 1990s. He oversaw the development of OS X, my favorite operating ...

13. iPhone is rubbish - give me POTS or die

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    They say that the iPhone is fantastic. They say the applications are great. They say all sorts of stuff about the iPhone. But give me the Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) any time.They say that the iPhone ...

14. Steve Jobs is more popular than Oprah

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    US teens have voted Apple’s Steve Jobs the person they most admire because he has ‘made the world a better place’. US teens have voted Apple’s Steve Jobs the person they most admire because he has ‘made ...

15. Foxconn preps Apple tablet for 2010 launch

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    Apple has selected Foxconn to manufacture its shiny tablet PC. According to DigiTimes, the enigmatic device will be available during the first quarter of 2010, with an expected initial production run of ...

16. Windows 6.5: Living in a Post iPhone World is a Bitch

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... into an alternative reality.  In the world they think they knew being hardware independent is the model and Microsoft is King.  In the world they suddenly find themselves in Apple, who isn’t ...

17. Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing"

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... the masses like we used to talk about computing for the masses before Steve Jobs and the Woz ever created the Apple II.     This is big stuff, important stuff, world changing stuff, and I’m having ...

18. 10 most important IT fruits revealed

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    ... is essential. Networking is vital. But fruits are clearly more important than any of these. Here's a list of the most important 10 IT fruits. 1.Apple If a Jobs worth doing, it's worth doing well. Apple ...

19. Apple's new Macs better be cheap

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    Opinion: It's no surprise that Apple will be unveiling new iMacs and MacBooks soon. Rumors have been floating for weeks and now retailers are running out of stock of existing units and being told, in ...

20. Apple App Store downloads pass two million mark

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    Apple has announced that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store, which it modestly describes as the largest applications store in the world. Apple has announced that more ...

21. Intel and Apple are at the crossroads

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... isn’t the same without Bill Gates at the helm, and years ago IBM's slide really started when Thomas Watson Jr - in that instance the son of the founder - retired.Apple almost lost its founder. ...

22. Apple snaps up top Intel lawyer

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    The second high profile casualty of yesterday's Intel management reshuffle, ex-General Counsel Bruce Sewell, is moving down the road to Cupertino to take on the same role at Apple. The second high profile ...

23. Apple lines up against Palm, Microsoft. And Apple

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

    Opinion This week was the big Apple iPod refresh and the interest was almost as focused on what Apple didn’t announce as it was on what they did.   I think the overarching news was that despite ...

24. Steve Jobs rocks San Francisco with iTunes 9

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

    Apple CEO Steve Jobs has introduced a veritable smorgasbord of technological goodies, including an upgraded iPod Nano, iTunes 9 and OS 3.1. According to Jobs, the latest version of iTunes features an ...

25. Apple announces press conference, world faints with excitement

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 01 September 2009

    ... front pages of blogs around the world. As hacks jostled for position on Google News with speculation on what Apple might be announcing - an iPhone identical to but incompatible with earlier models, a ...

26. Humbled Psystar hopes to 'coexist' with Apple

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 28 August 2009

    Psystar has apparently adopted a radical new strategy in its legal offensive against Apple. The Mac clone manufacturer - which had previously vowed to fight Apple with 'guns blazin' - now claims that ...

27. Apple malware checker only detects two viruses

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 27 August 2009

    Macs famously aren't susceptible to viruses, which is why Snow Leopard has a malware checker. Shame it doesn't work. Cupertino (CA) - Apple's reliance on Steve Jobs' aura to protect its users from malware ...

28. Jobs bends his mind to Apple Tablet

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 25 August 2009

    A re-invigorated Steve Jobs is spending his time at Apple concentrating on a tablet device for Apple, sources have told the Wall Street Journal. A re-invigorated Steve Jobs is spending his time at ...

29. Updated: Colorado photographer sues Apple over 'iconic' photo

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 20 August 2009

    A widely published Colorado photographer has filed a copyright infringement suit against Apple. Louis Psihoyos - who created the ubiquitous "500 monitors" (aka "1000 TVs") image in 2005 - alleges that ...

30. Jobs tried to stop Palm from poaching jobs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 20 August 2009

    ... illegal. Palm had poached an Apple employee called Jon Rubenstein and that upset Steve Jobs, the report continued. He wanted Palm to enter into a pact, but Colligan wasn't playing this game. Rubinstein ...

31. Motorola Morrison surfaces: The iPhone the ROKR should have been?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 10 August 2009

    ... himself, but obviously was the iPhone Apple never wanted. It entirely failed to appeal to customers. It was a lesson that repackaging the then successful RAZR phone and painting it Apple-white simply did ...

32. Google's Schmidt quits Apple board

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 03 August 2009

    Apple said that Eric Schmidt, the CEO of search giant Google, is to quit the board of Apple.Apple said that Eric Schmidt, the CEO of search giant Google, is to quit the board of Apple. He's been a board ...

33. Apple’s iPad: Like Apple TV or like iPod?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 30 July 2009

    Analyst Opinion - If anyone else was bringing out a 10” tablet based on a Smartphone platform this decade, I’d bet on that company to be disappointed.  But Apple isn’t anyone and there is a better ...

34. SOI could chop $800 billion from US power bills

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 22 July 2009

    ... to both increased performance and reduced power consumption - the magnitude of benefit applied to each is the designer's choice. Since "apples-to-apples" comparisons are impractical for most design teams ...

35. iPhone suicide: is a phone worth dying for?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Wednesday, 22 July 2009

    ... apartment in Shenzen, just outside Hong Kong. He worked at Foxconn Technology's factory making iPhones and killed himself after a prototype Apple phone went missing. He was responsible for shipping 16 ...

36. Apple revenue defies global economic recession

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 third quarter ended June 27, 2009. The company posted revenue of $8.34 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.23 billion, or $1.35 per diluted ...

37. Google Chrome OS: Gcrap reveals the next Netscape

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 20 July 2009

    ...  A blind man could see that the opportunity for the Google Chrome OS is huge.  The Windows market stalled on Windows XP, Apple has been gaining share, and the migration from Windows XP to Windows ...

38. Apple App Store downloads top 1.5 billion in first year

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    Apple says customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in the first year of operations for its App Store. Cupertino (CA) - Apple says customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion ...

39. Steve Jobs, the unique artisan CEO

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    ... CEO is somewhat unique, but Steve stands out from the rest rather noticeably. There have been a number of books profiling Steve the two most recent, iCon Steve Jobs (which Apple tried to block), and ...

40. Apple releases iPhone OS 3.1 Beta and iPhone SDK 3.1 beta

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 01 July 2009

    The iPhone OS 3.1 beta update and iPhone SDK 3.1 beta are now available to individuals and developers alike delivering bug fixes and much needed updates. This update comes only two weeks following the ...

41. Steve Jobs returns to Apple after extended medical leave

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 29 June 2009

    Apple CEO Steve Jobs has returned to Club Cupertino after a six-month medical leave of absence. Jobs - who was treated for a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004 - recently underwent a liver transplant ...

42. From Charles Babbage to Atari: A visit to the Computer History Museum

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 24 June 2009

    ... around a shrine housing the impressive Commodore 2001 (PET). Others wept at an altar dedicated to the original Apple computer and spoke in hushed tones about Saint Stephen Jobs. Overwhelmed, I waded aimlessly ...

43. Steve Jobs making "excellent" recovery from transplant

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 24 June 2009

    The hospital that gave Apple CEO Steve Jobs a liver transplant said that the prognosis for his recovery was excellent. Memphis (TN) - The hospital that gave Apple CEO Steve Jobs a liver transplant said ...

44. World goes iPhone crazy, says Apple

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 22 June 2009

    Apple says it has sold over one million iPhone 3GS models in three days and that six million customers have downloaded the new iPhone 3.0 software since its release. Cupertino, (CA) - Apple says it ...

45. Apple's Steve Jobs had a liver transplant

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Saturday, 20 June 2009

      Steve Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago and is expected to return to work at Apple at the end of this month. Steve Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago and is expected to return ...

46. Apple WWDC: How to take on Windows 7

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 10 June 2009

    Analyst Opinion - It’s a shame we can't have a DVD of a great Apple product pitch. When Apple gets it right, no one does it better. They can miss from time to time, but it's such a rare occurrence that ...

47. The clock is ticking for Apple’s next big thing

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Monday, 08 June 2009

    Analyst Opinion - If you work for Apple, own stock or are otherwise connected to the plucky company from Cupertino, congratulations. You have every right to drink it in after yet another momentous ...

48. Disappointing Palm Pre launch, iPhone extravaganza today

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 08 June 2009

    The wait is almost over and we will know in a few hours how Apple’s new iPhone will look like and whether there will be an Apple netbook or not. As expected, Palm launch its iPhone rival Pre over the ...

49. Jobs may make surprise return at WWDC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 05 June 2009

    Apple CEO Steve Jobs could soon return from his medical leave of absence and may even make a guest appearance at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference next week. San Francisco (CA) - Apple CEO Steve ...

50. Gordon Brown tells Sir Alan 'yer hired'

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 05 June 2009

    ... of his fortune on cosmetic dentistry, Michael Dell, Craig Barratt, Jerry Sanders and Bill Gates, who is, let us not forget, an honorary knight. And then there's a couple of Steves - Apple Messiah ...