Yesterday afternoon the internet was buzzing with details of the launch of Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series in Barcelona. Only it wasn’t really a launch, it was more a demonstration of a preview version of the platform. It’s predecessor was only launched last autumn, and this pretty well complete rewrite of the Microsoft mobile phone [...]

Today was the eighth annual(ish) gathering of four hundred of the Microsoft Development community for a day of free technical training. Once again it was spectacularly over subscribed – sold out faster than Glastonbury (all the places went within fifteen minutes) and with no Microsoft speakers had the usual mix of sessions, some of which [...]

This morning, Robert Scoble, who is currently at LeWeb in Paris published this picture to his Flickr stream.
It is a shot taken by him of the audience, and is the answer to a simple request, for people to hold up their iPhone – just take a look at the full sized shot and count quite [...]

Over the past year or so Garmin have finally started to provide software for the Mac. One of those new pieces of software, currently in beta is BaseCamp, a tool that works with various of the Garmin topographic mapping products giving a three-dimensional view of the mapping data, similar to the view that their latest [...]

Last month, Microsoft launched a campaign called “I’m a PC” directly targeting the well known Apple “I’m a Mac” campaign, with a number of big name celebrities endorsing the PC.
Now we get to see the first salvo in the response from Apple, not a new campaign, not even an attempt to out celeb the competition, [...]

Last night we had the kind of problem that most computer users dread, the un-bootable computer. Beth had used the iMac earlier in the day without any problems, but when I tried to start the machine up, it stalled during the start-up process.
The next stage when you’ve got any sort of Mac problem related to [...]

Microsoft are in a strange position. Despite still producing the operating system that holds the dominant position in the market, still producing the office platform that holds the dominant position in the market, and still producing the dominant web browser, they are seen as being under threat. The reason? Their share of the market held [...]

I’m just coming to the end of my first week with an iPhone 3G. Unlike some I didn’t sample the whole queuing and activation chaos last Friday. I managed to get one of the limited stocks that O2 had available online last Monday by getting in within the first hour before they had all sold [...]

Sometimes a Steve Jobs keynote is all about surprises, you go into it after a surge of rumours, but what you get on the other side is all a bit of a surprise. Yesterday it was exactly the opposite. The 3G version of the iPhone had been trailed so much it would have been a [...]

I just thought I’d post a few words about the Apple Store Personal Shopper service, which Apple have been plugging in their UK stores – and probably across the rest of the world too. The basic idea is simple, it’s a free service where you book an appointment slot, and for that period you get [...]

If you happen to read the BBC Internet Blog, the picture that has appeared today on one of their postings might be familiar, especially if you’ve read my post about the BBC iPlayer. One interesting thing I’ve learnt from the e-mail exchange with the BBC guy who asked to use the picture though, Apple apparently [...]

So I’ve just about got everything going in Leopard having done the upgrade. The only significant application that isn’t working is iMovie – but then that didn’t work under Tiger either. (Having had a trawl around the net it seems I’m not alone in having problems with it on a G5 either… The main tip [...]

One of the annoyances of being a gadget fan is when your fantastic new toy gets a surprise upgrade, just after you’ve bought it – it happened to me with our iMac G5, when Apple released the revision C model with Mighty Mouse, Apple Remote, Front Row and a built in iSight camera a few [...]

It has to be said, I’ve not been massively excited by the past couple of Macworld Keynotes – either they’ve been things I’ve not really been interested in buying, or things that weren’t available outside the USA, or both.
It’s a bit different this year. The keynote included for key announcements, all of which were interesting [...]

TechCrunch UK posted this clip alongside an article talking about Apple’s announcement that they are going to try and standardise the cost of downloads across Europe by getting the record companies to standardise their charges. Possibly a little optimistic – but then they did manage to have the clout to get their own way with [...]

It’s iPhone Day, and there is already a queue outside the Apple Store in London!

So having had an iPod Touch to play with for a couple of days, I thought I’d give my first impressions.
Firstly, being an Apple device, the integration between the iPod Touch and the Mac is great. Effectively all you have to do is plug the iPod Touch into the computer and you can sync music [...]

So this morning at work a small package turned up on my desk containing my new toy, an iPod Touch.
Depending on your point of view, this is either the ultimate touch screen and wi-fi equipped iPod or it’s a cut down iPhone with loads of functionality missing. Needless to say I’m thinking of it more [...]

I have to say that if I’d paid £15 per person to come into this years Mac Expo I’d be decidedly disappointed. In our case, having got complimentary tickets we made the best of it and headed off into central London.
Anyway, what was wrong with the expo? Firstly it was noticeably smaller – although having [...]

I got an e-mail from a friend yesterday with a bit of a challenge. They currently have an original 15 inch MacBook Pro and are looking to upgrade. The laptop primarily gets used under Windows, so they are trying to find an equivalent PC rather than have to pay out for a copy of Windows [...]