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Steve Jobs and Tinker Bell 11:50am on 13 Oct 2009 I thought this was a technology blog? How are you getting away with this PR stuff?

Of course, my comment pointing out that you are not posting tech stories but business stories almost entirely connected to Apple and Steve Jobs will be removed as "off topic". Oh, the irony........
Who wins from an Orange iPhone? 01:50am on 29 Sep 2009 "Who wins from an Orange iPhone?"

The answer is Apple.

See you next iArticle.

PS I thought this was a tech blog, not business blog.
Apple: All sizzle and no steak 11:35am on 10 Sep 2009 Not much, but enough for a blog entry, eh? Still waiting for this blog's opinion about Sony's IFA announcements on 3D technology for the home.
Time for an Apple rumour 10:09pm on 17 Aug 2009 Soap-Box-Kid, suggest you look up "television licence fee" and "public service broadcaster". Seemingly myopic iWorship from Gizmodo and Engadget I can put up with. From the BBC? Not so much.

And by the way, yes, those other companies do the same. The only difference is that the BBC and other media organisations don't post articles when somebody at one of those companies sneezes or picks up a draughting pen. Tomorrow is one of the biggest days of the gaming year, possibly one of the biggest for many years, with Sony widely expected to announce some pretty huge things. Where's the article? Where's the blog entry? (And yes, this blog covers gaming.) But Apple is rumoured to possibly be working on one day bringing out a type of device which you've already been able to buy from at least ten manufacturers for several years and it's like Xmas for tech journalists the world over.
Time for an Apple rumour 02:52am on 16 Aug 2009 Incidentally, I have a BBC Monitoring brochure on my desk at work. On its shiny cover is pictured every type of day-to-day consumer entertainment device you can think of (well, almost...). Desktop computing is represented by a Mac Pro *and* a Mini. The laptop is, what else, a MacBook. PMPs are represented by an iPod Touch, naturally. And there's the iPhone, of course. There's even an Apple TV unit pictured (one of only 26 ever manufactured!). Television apparently isn't worthy of representation but a shiny iMac panel is shown streaming a BBC News 24 feed! Sadly, there's no space left for a Sony Vaio, or a Panasonic Viera, or a Nokia N90, or a Creative Zen, or a Dell XPS, or an XBox 360, or a Sky HD box, or a Pure DAB radio, or Freeview ......

But remember, the BBC is NOT Apple obsessed!
Time for an Apple rumour 02:01am on 16 Aug 2009 1. The floppy disk was already entering its death throes when Apple dropped it from their new computer. Less setting the agenda, more responding early on in a trend.
2. The credit for making the mouse commonplace goes to Xerox.
3. HP released a tablet computer range years ago! You know, years before Apple decided to think about working on inventing it some time in the near future.
4. To date there have been at least 15 slate tablets, from the likes of Fujitsu, Samsung and Panasonic, and at least 50 convertible/hybrid tablets including from Dell, Asus, Acer and HP. But they'll be wiped from history when Apple eventually catch up and "introduce them to consumers" - just like the LG Prada has been airbrushed out.
5. Multi-touch existed for years before Apple invented it (sic) and the iPhone wasn't the first commercial device to use it. Apple only caught up with other users of the tech when they bought out a company called Fingerworks......
Time for an Apple rumour 6:06pm on 14 Aug 2009 Stuff this, I'm really looking forward to the day Apple finally invents the tablet computer........
Listening to Mr iPhone 10:13pm on 03 Jul 2009 PS Oh dear, Rory, the "when are you and the rest of the BBC going to stop being so anti apple?" was sarcastic.
Listening to Mr iPhone 10:09pm on 03 Jul 2009 Shame everyone forgets about the toilet seat MacBook when talking about Ive et al at Cupertino, a crime against product design which forced Apple to hire the Sony Vaio team to redesign their laptops.
Xbox Live gets truly social 4:19pm on 02 Jun 2009 @Mark_MWFC,

I have seen the video. And it screams scripted, pre-programmed tech demo. Why do you think it was pre-recorded and played back on screen rather than demo'd on stage?

Kotaku took a peek 'behind the curtain' when they were allowed to see the demo behind securely closed doors last night, and have revealed that "The Milo demo was partially being manipulated by a developer who was sitting nearby.....". Elsewhere, someone has revealed you can only talk to Milo when prompted by the software via an on-screen icon. So, when the script allows it?

@djhworld,

Yes. But Sony revealed three months ago that Facebook/game integration is on its way for PS3 and I believe that in-game Twitter is already possible on the console! Darren has suggested that if MS can persuade developers to integrate them, it will be great, when Sony have already said they are working on that exact thing. Again, John Kioller (SCEA) said of Facebook/game integration: "That day is coming quicker than some may think." So how does announcing something in June which Sony announced in April make this "Microsoft's idea"?

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