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• Apple admits flaming nano nuisance
• Mozilla preps Firefox 3.0 auto update
• Smithsonian makes an iTunes connection
• Former Apple exec leads Dell's anti-iPod teams
• iPhone users are weekend browsers
• Google reveals new apps and timeline for Android
• Apple boss promises September iPhone software patch
• Apple wins in customer satisfaction
• Turkish iPhone 3G hopes cheered on Turkcell news
• Intempo iPod speakers groove to WiFi radio
• IDF: Intel boss - technology must make a difference
• Mac, Windows clipboards poisoned by URL attacks

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Blogs

>> Wednesday, 20 Aug 2008

Jonny Evans: Apple's MobileMe is the Christmas Grinch

Apple's attempt to pacify customers over its MobileMe launch fiasco has seen the firm inadvertently take a chunk out of my Christmas shopping budget!

>> Tuesday, 19 Aug 2008

Macworld Team: iTunes Store pays tribute to the great Isaac Hayes

By David Dahlquist

To many younger folk, Isaac Hayes will be remembered primarily as the voice of Chef from South Park, but to those who grew up in the 70’s, Hayes is a legend. One of the most prolific artists of the era, he composed the iconic theme music for Shaft, and helped launch soul music into the mainstream with his record label, Stax Records.

>> Monday, 18 Aug 2008

Simon Jary: Mobile still isn’t really portable

My two-year-old daughter looked at me with confusion and at my camera with derision as she tried to navigate through the pictures on the LCD screen using her fingers. She is so used to flicking through pictures on my iPhone that a real camera lacking this rather obvious functionality seems perverse to her.

Simon Jary: Teacher fury at iPod-hiding school blazer

Teachers are waving their canes in fury as Mrs Thatcher’s knicker-maker Marks & Spencer is selling a "Blazer for iPod” as part of its 2008 Back to School collection.

Macworld Team: Dell’s new plan is music to your fears

By Dan Moren

Remember Dell’s new music initiative? The one that Rob Enderle works for and then failed to disclose? Turns out they’ve got a secret weapon: the person heading it up is an ex-Apple executive, Tim Bucher, who was briefly Senior VP of Macintosh Hardware Engineering in 2005 and oversaw the development of Mac mini.

>> Friday, 15 Aug 2008

Karen Haslam: Thin Steve Jobs

It kinds of amuses me that everyone’s so worried that Apple CEO Steve Jobs looks ill.

Macworld Team: Second thoughts about iPhone 2.0?

By Rob Griffiths

Elsewhere on Macworld, I've offered up some advice on troubleshooting common iPhone issues. That was my mostly reasoned approach to troubles that have sprung up since I've upgraded to the iPhone 2.0 software; this is my more emotional response.

>> Tuesday, 12 Aug 2008

Simon Jary: Apple loses site of Me

One of my favourite Apple tools is HomePage – a wonderfully easy and stylish photo-sharing feature in Apple’s .Mac suite of web services. HomePage started life as Claris Home Page – one of the first user-friendly WYSIWYG HTML editors, which launched in 1996. Creating your own web pages required no knowledge of HTML. In 2000 it became HomePage in Apple’s online iTools suite.iTools and Apple’s later versions are examples of so-called “cloud computing,” using the internet to allow users to access technology enabled services and applications.

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