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So the annual Mac fan camp is over for another year so what were the highs and the lows? Well personally I think this is going to be slightly heavy on one side and most of the highs have low points… Time Capsule – This was a kick in the backside for anyone who recently [...]

From 2007 to 2008

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So it is that time of year when everyone gives you their opinion on what was great about 2007 and what to expect in 2008. Well what was great about 2007 is probably repeated by everyone: iPhone Facebook Vista – yes you may laugh but despite its faults it still made improvements on the desktop [...]

Is anyone else have problems with the iPod touch and its syncing? I’ve spent hours trying to get it synced:- attaching and re-attaching it, shutting iTunes down and reopening it, shutting the iPod down and restarting it. All to no avail I get podcasts daily that I like to put on but it takes weeks [...]

Forget Microsofts Surface, Apple have just done one better… According to Engadget they have filed a patent for a multi-touch mouse which would allow for a buttonless device which knew the position where your hand was, and how your fingers were gesturing on the device. The whole touch-sensitive/ multi-touch device area is really building momentum [...]

Unfortunately it looks like O2 might have pipped the others to the post in obtaining the contract to offer the iPhone to the UK. I say unfortunately, as based on my past experiences with O2 they are one of the last companies I would be wanting to sign up with. Orange seem to have the [...]

3G iPhone?

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With the launch of the iPhone in the US only moments away another rumour has come about from none other than Newswireless Guy Kewney. A new 3G (European) version of the iPhone will be launched Monday in the UK by Apple – in a join promotion with Vodafone, T-Mobile of Germany, and Carphone Warehouse. It [...]

Apple PR? & Cisco PR Cisco® and Apple® today announced that they have resolved their dispute involving the “iPhone” trademark. Under the agreement, both companies are free to use the “iPhone” trademark on their products throughout the world. Both companies acknowledge the trademark ownership rights that have been granted, and each side will dismiss any [...]

Or so say some… A senior executive for the Aussie telco Telstra says that Apple’s iPhone is pretty much doomed. Operations chief Greg Winn said that Apple was not a mobile phone manufacturer and should have “stuck to its knitting”. and… “You can pretty much be assured that Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and ZTE [...]

The Apple v Cisco battle isn’t over yet. Both companies have agreed to extend talks aimed at “reaching agreement on trademark rights and interoperability”. Apple launched it’s iPhone last month in San Francisco and immediately Cisco sued Apple for trademark infringement of its own line of internet-enabled iPhones. Cisco makes much of the hardware that [...]

Well,? I first heard about it on one of the TWiT netcasts, but Apple have today posted the software that will unlock hardware that was fitted to Core 2 Duo-based Macs – well except the 1.83GHz 17in iMac but including the Mac Pro with an Airport Extreme add-in :s . The hardware was installed in [...]