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- Has Steve Jobs dropped the iTunes ball?
- Has Steve Jobs been too focused on the iPhone over the past six months and allowed problems to develop over in an established part of Apple's business - iTunes. The New York Times reports today that Universal Music Group has notified Apple that it will not renew its annual contract...
- Tags: Thoughts, Industry, In the news, Gadgets, DRM, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- iPhone's improved battery life
- Apple has released some new info about the iPhone today - Battery life is significantly better than Apple estimated back in January!The improvements are pretty impressive. Talk time is up from 5 hours to 8 hours, Internet usage up from 5 hours to 6 hours, video playback up from 5 hours...
- Tags: Apple, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Firefox is on Steve Jobs' hit list!
- John Lilly, Mozilla's COO, spotted something that I hadn't noticed about Steve Jobs Worldwide Developers Conference WWDC keynote the other day.They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so here's two thousand words worth of images for you:Notice how Steve seems to be indicating that Safari will wipe...
- Tags: Apple, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- Safari for Windows - Do we really need another browser?
- Yesterday Apple unveiled a public beta of the Safari web browser aimed at Windows XP and Windows Vista users (oh, and Mac OS X 10.4.9 and later). Earlier this year when Apple had sent me a loaner MacBook Pro I'd had the opportunity to use Safari and quite honestly I wasn't...
- Tags: Thoughts, Software, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- 10 million iPhones = An idea platform for malware
- Let's make a few assumptions. First off, let's assume that Steve Jobs is bang on right and the iPhone will be a massive success. Let's assume that it will be the biggest thing since the iPod. Let's also assume that Steve's right when he says that Apple can shift 10 million...
- Tags: Thoughts, Security, Industry, Gadgets, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Users won't care about iPhone keyboard usability
- Each time I look at something related to the iPhone, I keep coming back to one aspect of the device I don't like - the onscreen keyboard. As much as I think that the glass-topped software-powered keyboard on the iPhone looks cool, I keep coming back the one thing that's important about...
- Tags: Thoughts, Industry, Gadgets, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- Malware could turn innocent iTunes Plus users into file-sharers
- Freedom to Tinker raises an interesting concern that malware could be used to turn innocent iTunes Plus (Apple's DRM-free music offering) users into file-sharers. If a file is swiped from a customer's machine and then distributed, you'll know where the file came from but you won't know who is at fault....
- Tags: Thoughts, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- iTunes Plus - Getting more than you bargained for!
- Following article on Wired and The Unofficial Apple Weblog, debate is raging as to whether it is right that Apple incorporates user's iTunes user name into tracks (specifically, the DRM-free iTunes Plus tunes).I've read dozens of blog posts and web articles today on this subject and one thing that seems...
- Tags: Thoughts, DRM, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Is it me or are Apple shareholders getting jittery?
- A fake email posted by Engadget claiming that the iPhone and Leopard had been delayed causes Apple stock to plunge 2.2%. News.com has the background:Engadget posted a story Wednesday morning at 11:49am ET claiming that Apple was about to announce another delay of Leopard, the next version of Mac OS...
- Tags: Apple, Thoughts, Trends
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Leopard delays - What's the big deal?
- So, Apple has delayed the launch of their Leopard until next October. Apple says that this is because the company needed to shift around key Mac OS X staff in order to make sure that the iPhone goes out of the door on time. This may be the...
- Tags: Thoughts, Software, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- EMI DRM-free deal -Shortsighted, risky, and possibly irresponsible to the company's shareholders
- DRM Watch has an interesting article which examines EMIs DRM-free music deal with Apple and now Microsoft. Its been interesting over the past few days to watch the reaction from different tech sectors to the EMI/Apple and then the EMI/Microsoft deal to make DRM-free music with less compression available...
- Tags: Thoughts, Industry, DRM, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Will a federal monopoly suit against Apple be good for consumers?
- It seems that with success attracts lawsuits and huge success attracts antitrust lawsuits. Apple is currently facing a number of lawsuits, and one in particular has the potential to be on a similar scale to the federal antitrust battle that hammered Microsoft.The charges leveled against Apple are very serious...
- Tags: In the news, Legal, Thoughts, Apple, Apple Computer Inc., Apple iTunes
- Blog posts 2007-01-05
- Nike+iPod Sport Kit raises privacy fears
- Researchers from the University of Washington claim that joggers who make use the iPod Sport kit ($29) are putting their privacy at risk. The research was carried out by T. Scott Saponas, Jonathan Lester, Carl Hartung, and Tadayoshi Kohno of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of...
- Tags: SECURITY, privacy, transmitter, receiver, Nike+iPod Sport Kit, Apple iPod
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- Why there's an iPod nano on my wish list - and not a Zune!
- I feel that I should explain why, after years of resistance, Ive finally added an iPod to my Holiday wish list. Yep, its true. This year theres an iPod on my wish list. An 8GB iPod nano to be exact. Kathie, my wife and business partner,...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Apple, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
Additional Resources
- A 1968 computer demo that changed people's lives
- Can a computer demo change people's lives? I've seen plenty in my time but none that moved me in any significant way. Yet 40 years ago, Doug Engelbart gave a demo that did change people's lives and changed the entire course of computer systems development. On Monday...
- Tags: Mr., Collective Intelligence, Computer, Demo, Productivity, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Netbooks dominate Cyber Monday sales
- Netbooks dominated the Computers & PC hardware bestsellers list on Amazon this Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year in the U.S. Netbooks FTW! Chalk it up to a small form factor (7-10 in., about 3 lbs.) and an even smaller...
- Tags: Monitor, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sales, LCD, MSI, Monitors & Displays, Notebooks, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- iPhone clouds true Smartphone snapshot
- Can Apple, specifically its iPhone, save an entire industry? The iPhone - now ranked the second most popular smartphone - saw strong enough adoption in the quarter ending Sept. 30 to mask the sluggishness of the overall smartphone market this past summer, according to a report by...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Smart Phone, Smartphone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Is your employer doing enough to prevent you from being the next Julie Amero?
- If you work with computers (especially around children, but I don't think that not working around children makes you immune to what happened) then what happened to the Connecticut substitute teacher Julie Amero should both shock and disturb you. Is your employer doing enough to prevent you from being the...
- Tags: Software, Security, Workplace, Information Technology, Julie Amero, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Why Amazon needs Kindle 2.0
- Kindle-mania has arrived this holiday season -- but will it stay for good? In a recent article on Forbes.com, Andy Greenberg writes that Amazon's next e-reader won't be a game-changer, but it will keep killing the competition -- and that's why Amazon needn't upgrade its fabled gadget....
- Tags: Sony Corp., Apple iPod, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle-mania, Greenberg, Kindle, Digital Music, Digital Media, Wireless, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Apple Confuses Speech with a DMCA Violation
- Apple recently sent a "cease and desist" email to bluwiki demanding the removal of postings by users who are trying to figure out how to write software that can sync media to the latest versions of the iPhone and iPod touch. According to the EFF: Apple doesn't...
- Tags: Apple iPod, DMCA, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
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