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  • Wired Follows Oobject On Apple Failures

    Wired Follows Oobject On Apple FailuresWired have a feature about failed Apple products called “Learning From Failure: Apple’s Most Notorious Flops.”

    They’ve picked eight items Newton, Lisa, etc … including ones we’d never heard of, like The TAM (Twentieth Anniversary Mac).

    If you’re getting a feeling of deja vu with all of this “Apple make mistakes” idea … you could well have in minds the collection of 19 items that Oobject had, “All time worst Apple products,” – a mere two months ago.

    Good to see that there’s still re-cycling of Apple products … or ideas at least.

    (We’ve been meaning to tell you about Oobject for ages … and with the time we’ve spent on it again today, looking around its various pages, it’s served as a reminder of how that article needs to be higher on our list).

  • Amazon Guns For iTunes As Music Store Goes International

    Amazon Guns For iTunes As Music Store Goes InternationalOnline retailer behemoths Amazon are set to turn up the heat on Apple iTunes, with the company rolling out international versions of its MP3 download service later this year,
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  • Skype Fess Up To Internal Routing Problem

    Skype Fess Up To Internal Routing ProblemQuick follow up on the SkypeIn mis-routing story that we broke a couple of days a go.

    Skype have now issued us a statement (don’t rush yourselves will you).

    We’re aware of the problem and currently working to fix it. In the meantime, if any customers are experiencing problems, they can contact customer service at [email protected]

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  • MacBook Air IS Quicker Than An iBook G4

    Speed Report on MacBook Air DisappointThe super svelte and lovely MacBook Air that many people have been drooling over … nay, dreaming of, after having seen it just over a week ago at the MacWorld Keynote doesn’t appear to be impressing with it’s sluggish performance.

    Engadget got hold of one to run some tests on it – Xbench 1.3 to be exact. The test numbers place it at the bottom on the league for speed of current machines.

    Out of interest, and for personal interest, we ran the same tests on an old iBook G4 (more…)

  • 0207 SkypeOut Woes Continue

    Skype Bombshell: 0207 SkypeIn Numbers Must ChangeYou’ll remember the outcry when Skype forced many of their 0207 SkypeIn subscribers to change their phone numbers late last year, due to Skype changing their suppliers, following an increase in costs.

    Many didn’t take up Skype’s offer to use new SkypeIn numbers, opting instead to transfer their SkypeIn number to another VoIP provider (we changed ours to VoIPFone).

    We’re getting reports of problems – and have experienced problems ourselves – of calls being incorrectly routed to Skype accounts when these number are called within Skype.
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  • iPlayer: HowTo Turn Off Sharing

    iPlayer: HowTo Turn Off SharingOne of the (many) complaints that people had with the BBC iPlayer was that their processing power and bandwidth was being used even when they didn’t have the iPlayer application loaded.

    While some of the more technically minded might have known that this would have been the case by default, the majority – and let’s not forget that this is a service aimed at the general public – had not clue about it.
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  • 75% Of US Web Users Watch Videos Online

    75% Of US Web Users Watch Videos OnlineThe US public are getting out the popcorn and lapping up Internet video, with over 75 per cent of US Internet users watching a streaming or progressive download video during November, 2007.

    In their new report, research firm comScore noted that each user is averaging 3.25 hours of video watching per month, with Google sites – including YouTube – cranking up their video market share by more than two percentage points during October to November, earning them nearly a third (31.3 per cent) of the market.
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  • Apple Macworld Keynote: The Detail Part II

    Here’s the wrap up of the announcements from The Steve (by our Steve, funnily enough) at MacWorld, continuing from our previous piece.

    Apple Macworld Keynote: The Detail Part IIiPod Touch
    The iPod Touch gets the same technology as the iPod (i.e. new Google MAPS, Webclips and customer home screens), however it also gets apps from the iPhone such as Mail, Weather and Notes. Google MAPS will use WiFi to get location information.

    All new iPod Touch’s come with the new software, unfortunately existing owners will have to pay $19.99 (£12.99/EU 17.99) to get it.

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  • Apple Macworld Keynote: The Detail Part I

    Apple Macworld KeynoteApple once again held a live link-up between the Moscone Center in San Francisco and the BBC in Wood Lane allowing UK and other European media and guests to see Steve Job’s keynote (London guests including Charles Dunstan of Carphone Warehouse, who seems to be building an intimate relationship with Apple).
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  • Apple MacBook Air – A Compromised Beauty

    Apple MacBook Air - A Compromised Beauty Great waves of unfettered iLove radiated around San Francisco last night when Apple head honcho Steve Jobs unveiled the world’s thinnest laptop, a stunning, aluminum-clad, blade-like creation called the MacBook Air.
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