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iPhone sales top world’s birth rate

January 26, 2012 in News Roundup

If you were worried about over-population, fear no more. At least we’ll all have iPhones soon.

Apple’s staggering sales figures mean there’s now more iPhones sold than babies born in the world every day.

According to the tech giant, 37.04m iPhones were sold between October and December.

The Next Web’s Apple editor did the maths and with 377,000 iPhones sold each day, Apple tops the average birth rate in the world, currently at 371,000 per day.

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Microsoft’s voice recognition blunder makes Siri shine

November 30, 2011 in News Roundup

So there’s a spangly new iPhone on the market, the 4s, but is it a technological leap or another Apple money spinner? Well the one thing it does, and does well in comparison to other smartphones, is its voice recognition software SIRI.

Recent comments by Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie, claiming that “Microsoft has had a similar capability in Windows Phone for more than a year… All that is already there, fully functionality for years.” has driven geeks and nerds alike to despair.

Although Microsoft’s smartphones have had voice recognition technology Tellme for some time now it is nowhere near the polished product that SIRI is. And this has been proved with some hilarious results.

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A duet with Apple’s witty virtual assistant Siri

October 19, 2011 in News Roundup

The song-a-day musician Jonathan Mann has recorded a duet with the new iPhone’s virtual assistant Siri.

In the touching love song, Siri reveals that she is incapable of love and refuses to marry Jonathan as she says they hardly know one another.

“My End User Licensing Agreement does not cover marriage”, she finally slams down the persistent Jonathan.

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Steve Jobs dies

October 6, 2011 in News Roundup

Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder and former CEO, has died at the age of 56 after a long battle with cancer. More to follow.

Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011

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Let the tablet Cold War commence!

August 23, 2011 in News Roundup

russia_usaA Russian company is planning to mass produce a cheap plastic tablet computer, which is set to take on the iPad.

Aimed primarily at school students, the tablet would cost $420 – a saving of $250 on the cheapest iPad.

The device, which would be produced by a Russian state company, is designed to be considerably lighter than its competitor.

The new tablet is set to use plastic or organic electronics, developed at Cambridge University in the 1990s, and would feature no glass, not even in the screen.

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iCloud to shape the next 10 years in digital, analysts say

June 8, 2011 in News Roundup

iCloudSteve Jobs came back from sick leave to announce that Apple is moving consumers’ digital life away from devices and into the cloud.

According to Jobs, iCloud ‘marks the completion of a long quest to liberate the computer from local files and all the desktop mishigas involved’. A transition often referred to as the ‘Post PC’ paradigm.

Early analysis of the move calls it the beginning of ‘new era’ for Apple, positioning the company as the clear leader in the race for making cloud computing mainstream.

“iCloud will shape the next 10 years the way the iTunes-on-your-Mac/PC digital hub shaped the last 10″, veteran Apple commentator John Gruber wrote.

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"Show me your iPhone!" – The words soon to be feared by every cheat

April 27, 2011 in News Roundup

iphone_trackingApple has appalled the digital privacy purists with its dodgy location tracking features.

Turns out that since the iOS4 system update, released in June 2010, iPhones are keeping track of where you go and store that information in a ‘secret file’ on your computer when the two are synchronised.

While this sounds terrifying, especially to those already concerned about the diminishing privacy in the digital world, the nature of the first worries to occupy our minds are interesting in themselves.

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Cunning Linguistics

April 4, 2011 in Blog, News Roundup

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Lawyers from Microsoft and Apple have been engaged in linguistic jousting this week over ownership of the term ‘App Store’, which the latter are claiming is theirs exclusively. Where each companies’ respective legal teams have failed to win, both Microsoft and Apple hope that the hiring of professional linguists will be able to swing victory their way.
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1984 Mac takes on 2007 Acer

January 13, 2011 in News Roundup

We know. The internet’s full of comparisons illustrating the bitter rivalry between Apple and PC camps. But this one caught our eye and we wanted to share it.

A YouTube video uploaded by “chipwaver” features a boot fight between a 1984 Macintosh computer and a 2007 32bit PC laptop.

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Google tops list of web's most dangerous

January 5, 2011 in News Roundup

google_virusGoogle has topped the list of 2010′s most dangerous websites.

Compiled by virus and malware company Trend Micro, an annual review revealed the search giant’s homepage to be an ideal target for cybercriminals.

Google’s popularity has led the site to be used as a signpost to malware threats and dangerous ads.

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