With global shipments falling by a record 10.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2015, is the PC now dead? January 14, 2016 Andy Hobsbawm, co-founder of Evrythng, says Yes. Over 90 per cent of adults on the planet have a mobile, and about half of those are smartphones – soon they all will be. It’s a mistake to keep thinking of desktop and mobile as two separate categories. Smartphones are computers, just better. They’re more portable and come [...]
Burns Night: where to celebrate January’s hottest event in London January 13, 2016 Mr Fogg’s The waiting staff at Mr Fogg’s, a bar themed around the famous fictitious Victorian traveller of the same name in Mayfair, are swapping their military uniforms for kilts. Guests are invited to toast the Scottish bard with a glass of Glenmorangie Original 10yr whisky, sample haggis canapes and enjoy a recital of his [...]
Snoopers’ charter: Public support for government’s Investigatory Powers bill soaring despite criticism from Vodafone, Apple, Facebook and Google January 12, 2016 Britons are increasingly backing the UK government’s so-called snoopers’ charter, as a fresh survey shows support for the proposed legislation to monitor communication skyrocketing in the wake of recent terror threats. With some 63 per cent now in favour of the controversial Investigatory Powers bill, the survey from Broadband Genie shows a significant shift in [...]
iOS 9.3 update: Apple will give you a better nights sleep with Night Shift screen dim feature January 12, 2016 Apple can take the blame for our smartphone and tablet obsession and the resulting sleepless nights, but its latest update may just help fix that. iOS 9.3, the newest update for iPhones and iPads, will come with a new feature which dims the screen of your device automatically when it's bedtime. Over exposure to blue light from screens [...]
Elon Musk: Apple car is an “open secret” reveals Tesla entrepreneur as he talks rivals and driverless cars January 12, 2016 Entrepreneur Elon Musk has said it's an open secret that Apple is working on making an electric car which would rival his own company Tesla. Speaking to the BBC in an exclusive interview, Musk said that Apple and another new rival Faraday Future had been hiring Tesla engineers over recent months. "It's pretty hard to [...]
Oil rout, shambolic Chinese regulators, and Apple analyst misses: Why don’t we ignore Week One and start again? January 12, 2016 Oh what japes, and that was only the first week back at work this year. But did we learn anything useful from the first five days of trading? Possibly, but has anyone come out of week one with any credit or stood out as a visionary amid the chaos? Not that I can see, I’m [...]
US stocks rise as markets shake off China concerns January 11, 2016 It seems American investors have finally driven the bears away: US markets opened up as fears over China’s economy started to abate. After a sharp fall last week, US equities started this week with more confidence. The Dow Jones jumped 100 points as trading began, helped along the way by Apple, which itself made gains [...]
Apple News app numbers? Eddy Cue says its been underestimating reader traffic to publisher’s content on iPhone and iPad January 11, 2016 Apple has admitted it has been counting readers of its News app wrong and that the number of people using it has been underestimated since launching in September. The mistake was blamed on an unspecified glitch and means some of the world's biggest media companies, which publish their content through the app, have incorrect figures. Eddy Cue, Apple's senior [...]
Apple Music streaming service nabs 10m subscribers January 11, 2016 Apple Music now has 10m subscribers six months after it launched, it's been reported. The FT reported that the service, which was launched in June last year, rose despite a fall in global album sales. It's pretty good news for the service, which offered users a free three-month subscription when it was first unveiled. Set against [...]
Another hint at the worst-kept secret ever? Apple just registered two decidedly automotive domains – suggesting cars are in development January 8, 2016 Apple's decision to create a car may be the worst-kept secret since – well, the Apple Watch – but here's another giant clue that's what it's working on. Apple blog MacRumours has spotted the tech giant has registered a clutch (see what we did there?) of suspiciously automotive-sounding internet domain names, including Apple.car, Apple.cars and Apple.auto. Hmmm. [...]