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Apple

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/ 16 September 2010

Whither Nokia?

There was a whiff of desperation about Nokia’s annual "World Show" event in London on Tuesday.

By Alistair Fairweather
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/ 5 September 2010

Apple drives another nail into sluggish Sony’s coffin

I remember a time when Sony dominated the gadgetry business, when it was a synonym for elegant design and advanced functionality.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 2 September 2010

Hardware? Software? Who cares?

Right now a tectonic shift is under way in one of the world’s most important industries: information technology.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 August 2010

JailbreakMe released for Apple devices

JailbreakMe — which will unlock iPhones, iPads and iPods — ruled legal by the United States Library of Congress.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 25 July 2010

Steve Jobs ‘like a rock star who can’t perform acoustic’

Over the past two months, Apple’s market capitalisation (ie its value as measured by the stock market) averaged out at $229,8-billion.

By Staff Reporter
Apple iPhone 4 fix: A free ‘bumper’
Article
/ 17 July 2010

Apple iPhone 4 fix: A free ‘bumper’

Apple is offering a free rubber "bumper" to owners of the iPhone 4 to head off criticism over problems with its signal reception.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 14 July 2010

Signalling defeat

You can call Apple’s products many things. Overpriced, elitist, overhyped, restrictive — all of these have a ring of truth to them.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 11 July 2010

Apple: Better by design, does little for Western workers

Apple employs 25 000 people in the US but the Chinese company that make its products has 800 000 employees. Time to rethink the model?

By Staff Reporter
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/ 4 July 2010

Will the iPhone and iPad finally kill off the Mac?

With iPhone and iPad sales responsible for the majority of Apple’s revenue, the company is losing interest in what was once its keystone product.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 2 July 2010

Apple confesses to ‘surprising’ software slip-up

Every iPhone ever made uses a "totally wrong" formula to show signal strength, says Apple, after antenna complaints.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 27 June 2010

iPhone 4 users turn to nail polish to fix gadget

Owners of Apple’s latest phone are resorting to a bit of duct tape or a dab of nail polish to solve its reception problems.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 23 June 2010

The dead tree manifesto

If you work for a print publication, you’re pretty tired of hearing people say that "print is dead".

By Alistair Fairweather
Apple unveils iPhone 4 to fend off Google
Article
/ 8 June 2010

Apple unveils iPhone 4 to fend off Google

CEO Steve Jobs on Monday showed off a redesigned $199 "iPhone 4" that is a quarter slimmer than the current handset.

By Gabriel Madway and Alexei Oreskovic
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/ 6 June 2010

The iPad? It’s not exactly the Apple of my eye

Everywhere I went last week, people asked: "Well, what do you think of it, then?" The "it" was my shiny new iPad, aka the Jesus Tablet.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 2 June 2010

Apple’s CEO Jobs finds Foxconn deaths ‘troubling’

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs finds "troubling" a string of worker deaths at Foxconn, the contract manufacturer that assembles the company’s iPhone

By Alexei Oreskovic
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/ 2 June 2010

Google ‘getting rid of Windows’

Google is reported to be getting rid of desktop PCs running Microsoft Windows across the corporation to eliminate a security risk.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 27 May 2010

Apple gains the upper hand over Microsoft

Apple surged past Microsoft as the world’s biggest tech company based on market value on Wednesday, the latest milestone in the company’s revival.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 13 May 2010

HTC wants US sales freeze of iPad, iPhone and iPod

Call for regulator to halt sale of iPhones, iPads and iPods in the US as fight between Apple and HTC grows increasingly acrimonious.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 5 May 2010

Flash republic

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a giant technology company is accused of using its dominance to push a smaller player out of a juicy new market.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 21 April 2010

Steve, the big brother shtick is getting tired

Ah, Steve Jobs, master of all you survey. You’re a highly moral man. We can tell from your serious expression, steel-rimmed glasses and turtlenecks.

By Alistair Fairweather
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/ 20 April 2010

Apple alert: The new iPhone has gone missing

Prototype found in a California bar reveals plans for better screen, chat camera and slimmer, more glassy case.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 18 April 2010

Apple’s iPad war on Adobe and Flash

Steve Jobs sees Flash’s near-dominance in the online animation and interactivity sphere as a strategic threat.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 13 April 2010

Google’s ‘iPad killer’ on the way?

The <i>New York Times</i> reports that Google is working on a tablet computer rival to Apple’s iPad that will run Flash.

By Richard Adams
iPad unearthed: Samsung, LG appear
Article
/ 4 April 2010

iPad unearthed: Samsung, LG appear

Luke Soules was one of the first on the planet to get his hands on an iPad. And he wasted no time taking it apart.

By Gabriel Madway
iPad hits US store shelves
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/ 3 April 2010

iPad hits US store shelves

The iPad hits shelves on Saturday after months of intense buzz, giving shoppers the chance to decide whether the device is worth all the publicity.

By Sinead Carew
US media raves over Apple iPad
Article
/ 2 April 2010

US media raves over Apple iPad

US media outlets are gushing like star-struck lovers over the Apple iPad in early reviews as software makers hustle to ready programs for its launch.

By Staff Reporter
iPad striptease: It’s what’s inside that counts
Article
/ 1 April 2010

iPad striptease: It’s what’s inside that counts

The iPad will not hit stores until Saturday, but the race to unlock its mysteries started several weeks ago in San Luis Obispo.

By Gabriel Madway
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/ 2 March 2010

Apple sues HTC for iPhone patent infringement

Apple announced on Tuesday that it had filed a lawsuit against HTC, maker of the Nexus One smartphone from Google.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 February 2010

Mac or PC: Which is safer, or more secure?

I don’t think there’s much doubt about whether you’re safer using Windows or Mac OS X: the answer is Mac OS X.

By Jack Schofield
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/ 30 January 2010

Cyber crooks cashing in on iPad frenzy

Hackers and scammers are cashing in on iPad fever by luring the curious to booby-trapped websites with false promises of information.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 29 January 2010

Has the Apple iPad saved journalism from extinction?

In this parlous climate for the traditional media, a journalist who gets too excited about a gadget such as the iPad is liable to attract scorn.

By Oliver Burkeman
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/ 28 January 2010

Apple iPad: What it doesn’t have

The iPad has plenty of features — but it’s also missing of things that you might expect in a tablet computer. Why?

By Kimberly White
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