From the monthly archives:

September 2010

Will the new Apple TV find a space in our living rooms?

by Alex Watson on September 30, 2010 in Mac to the future

Apple is pitching the Apple TV as a way to stream TV shows and movies from iTunes, but will this new clarity be enough to persuade us to buy it? One of the things I remember Steve Jobs saying when he first introduced the iPhone in 2007 was that ‘everyone hates their phone’. How wrong [...]

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Plugging a leak

by Howard Oakley on September 29, 2010 in Help
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Companies no longer need to worry about spies with miniature cameras. These days, anyone with an iPod can make off with valuable data. As every good James Bond fan knows, the essential tool of the trade used to be a subminiature Minox camera. The spy’s daily drudge would involve sneaking into an office in the [...]

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Full stream ahead

by Kenny Hemphill on September 29, 2010 in Last Word
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Apple may have once ‘ignited the personal computer revolution’ but it has now grown up and that means evolution rather than revolution. Apple used to describe itself as having ‘ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh’. These days, however, [...]

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OpenOffice becomes LibreOffice

by Simon Aughton on September 29, 2010 in News
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OpenOffice developers have decided to abandon the project in favour of a new version of the open source software suite, LibreOffice.

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Leading ISPs happy to drop net neutrality

by Simon Aughton on September 29, 2010 in News
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The UK’s two biggest ISPs have revealed that they are prepared to give priority to certain internet apps or services if companies were to pay them to do so. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on net neutrality, senior executives from BT and TalkTalk said they would be happy to put selected apps into the fast [...]

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Apple Cook “not going to HP”

by Simon Aughton on September 29, 2010 in News
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Tim Cook will not be taking up the vacant chief executive position at HP, according to an analyst who he had coffee with Steve Jobs’s right-hand man this week.

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