The Apple Macintosh computer is 25 years old tomorrow. Although I was using a Sinclair Spectrum computer at the time, I remember the first time I actually saw the original Apple Macintosh running and was amazed. The machine was just a few months old and it was the first time I had ever seen or…
Today, Apple announced the best quarterly revenue and earnings figures in their history! Despite the credit crunch, the daily reports of doom and gloom (and lay-offs across the IT sector), Apple are growing like never before. Apple record profits Apple.com reported some amazing results pretty-much across the board, though iPhone sales where below many experts…
Microsoft are working to resolve Windows Vista incompatibility issues; with the launch of the public beta of a program suite; designed to help businesses run ‘legacy’ software on versions of the Windows Vista OS. Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) Catchy name eh? Anyhow, here’s what you can expect from the public beta of Microsoft MED…
Belkin have been found offering people money, to post positive comments about their products on Amazon.com! To get the money (less than a dollar per post), the fake reviewer was told to pretend they owned the product and also to mark any negative comments about Belkin’s products as “unhelpful.” The blame for this pathetic episode,…
Three months after his friend Kevin Rose had to lay-off a number of senior staff at Revision3, is Leo Laporte in trouble over at the TWiT network? Are TWiT’s numbers cause for concern? Leo Laporte has been showing up as a guest all over the place recently, plugging the excellent twit.tv network. Leo suggested at…
Federated Media Publishing (FMP), provider of Internet marketing / advertising services to some of the biggest sites on the Internet, is going through a restructuring process. Techcrunch publicly casts doubt on Federated Media One of FMP’s best known clients, techcrunch, has taken the ‘unusual’ step of publicly casting doubt on the future of FMP. Michael…
I was delighted to hear that TweetDeck, my favourite Twitter App, has managed to get funding to the tune of a cool half million dollars! TweetDeck is the brainchild of Iain Dodsworth, who decided to develop an App that would help him keep track his Twitter followers. What is TweetDeck? For those of you who…
Steve Jobs has issued another announcement regarding his health; his second in recent weeks. It seems the Apple CEO’s health problems are “more complex” than he originally thought. Here’s the full post, from Apple.com: I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the…
I enjoy Robert Scoble’s blog. However, I often disagree with him; like in his recent blog post, where he writes that traditional blogging is inferior to video blogging. Hardly a surprise, as Robert makes a living from shooting video and posting it all over the Internet. Scoble’s point? Robert gives examples to prove his point;…
Is the release of the Microsoft Windows 7 public beta a success story or not? The answer seems to depend on who you listen to. Let me explain! Windows 7 is no Vista! It seems that the generally positive reviews of the Windows 7 beta, have generated the kind of buzz that Vista could only…
