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Bill Gates on Steve Jobs’ death: ‘I will miss him immensely’

October 6th, 2011 2:06am No comments

Bill Gates on Steve Jobs' death: I will miss him immensely

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and long-time rival of Apple, has issued a touching statement about Steve Jobs’ death.

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RIP Steve Jobs, Apple genius, perfectionist, visionary

October 6th, 2011 12:54am 3 comments

RIP Steve Jobs, Apple genius

Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs has lost his long battle with ill-health and passed away, aged 56.

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Steve Jobs takes another medical leave of absence

January 17th, 2011 2:31pm 1 comment

Steve Jobs takes another medical leave of absence

Apple head honcho and leading light Steve Jobs has announced that he is taking medical leave of absence again so that he can ‘focus on his health’.

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Steve Jobs pitches the iPad to the Dragons Den

December 31st, 2010 5:16pm No comments

What happened when Steve Jobs pitched the iPad in the Dragons’ Den?

Here’s a little bit of fun before you lot go out for a big New Year’s Eve beerfest…

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Fight! Industry reacts angrily to Steve Jobs’ rant, RIM lets rip

October 20th, 2010 10:30am No comments

Industry reacts angrily to Steve Jobs' rant

After Apple CEO Steve Jobs decided to put the boot into the likes of Google, app maker TweetDeck, HTC, Motorola, and Research In Motion at his company’s Q4 conference call, industry reaction has been building.

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Apple trousers $20bn in record-breaking quarterly revenues

October 19th, 2010 9:15am 1 comment

Apple trousers $20bn in record-breaking quarterly revenues

Apple’s soaraway success continues unabated, with the company reporting record breaking profits.

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Apple hates Ian Dury and wants us to forget about the sex and drugs

October 15th, 2010 4:07pm 1 comment

Apple hates Ian Dury, tells him to forget about the sex and drugs

We’ve raged long and hard about our opposition to Apple’s increasingly puritanical crusade, which has seen the company banning apps with naughty words (gosh!) and bikini-clad women (‘gasp!) from the App Store, and more recently, introducingĀ ‘sext’ censoring technology.

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Apple swivel 360 degrees and allow third party iPhone development tools

September 9th, 2010 2:52pm No comments

Apple slam a 360 turn and allow third party iPhone development tools

Perhaps in recognition of the growing criticisms and gripes from frustrated developers and users, Apple has announced that they are, “relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps” and publishing new app review guidelines.

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Handbags as Apple call out Google’s Android figures

September 2nd, 2010 9:15am 1 comment

Handbags as Apple call out Google's Android figures

During Apple’s press launch event yesterday, Steve Jobs was doing his usual ‘big-up’ routine and bragging about the zillions of iOS devices being activated every day, adding what appeared to be a dig at their main smartphone rival, Google’s Android OS.

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Apple’s moral censorship continues as erotic literature is purged from iTunes Top 10

July 27th, 2010 12:47pm No comments

Apple's moral censorship continues as erotic literature is purged from iTunes Top 10

It looks like those prudes at Apple have struck again, this time quietly removing four erotic novellas listed in the top ten downloads in theĀ  iTunes Store and replacing them with duller tones such as Peter Mandelson’s autobiography, The Third Man.

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Apple iPhone 4 specs – new OS, bigger display, HD video, video calling and more

June 7th, 2010 7:35pm 1 comment

Apple WWDC10 - Steve Jobs keynote and news

Declared “really hot,” by Steve Jobs speaking at WWDC10, the new iPhone apparently comes with no less than 100 new features, the most obvious one being the all new design.

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Apple WWDC10 – AppStore and the iPhone

June 7th, 2010 6:30pm No comments

Apple WWDC10 - Steve Jobs keynote and news

Perhaps mindful of the flak that Apple has taken for its sometimes arbitrary and moralistic app approval process, Jobs has weighed in to say their AppStore is, “the most vibrant app store on the planet,” with around “15,000 submissions a week in up to 30 different languages.”

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Apple WWDC10 – Steve Jobs keynote speech starts…

June 7th, 2010 6:14pm No comments

Apple WWDC10 - Steve Jobs keynote and news

Steve Jobs has taken to the stage and is keen to big up Apple’s achievements, with “one iPad selling every 3 seconds.”

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Will the iPad Support Tethering? Steve Jobs has the answer

March 6th, 2010 1:33pm 2 comments

Will the iPad Support Tethering? Steve Jobs has the answerAnyone who spends time on the move knows how handy it is to be able to tether your netbook/laptop/tablet-based computing device to your phone to enjoy some internet connectivity on a bigger screen.

The iPad – a delightfully mobile device if we ever saw one – looks to be just the sort of thing that would be perfect for hooking up to your iPhone.

After all, they’re made by the same people, so all the inter-connectivity and seamless interoperability has got to be just a click away, no?

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Steve Jobs keynote goes Autotune

February 12th, 2010 11:47am No comments

It’s a frustratingly short clip, but we love it. More, please.

Click on for the L0Lz.

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