Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO of Apple, but the results of our Facebook poll suggest there’s widespread confidence the company he founded 35 years ago will manage just fine without him. Yesterday we posed the question on our Facebook page, ‘Will Apple succeed without Steve Jobs at the helm?’ Of the 166 people …
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The Home Office has ditched plans to ban suspected rioters from social networks during times of unrest. Yesterday representatives from Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry maker RIM met with the home secretary, Theresa May. The Guardian reports that the government wasn’t looking to restrict Internet services or close them down. The Home Office said: “The discussions looked at how law enforcement and the …
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BlackBerry Messenger, the free messaging service for BlackBerry users that was blamed as a riot-organisation tool in the recent London unrest, is getting a tuneful new component in the shape of BBM Music. BBM Music is a music-streaming service with a couple of neat twists. The first and most important twist is it’s going to be really cheap, with a …
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The BBC has published the results of its UK 3G coverage survey, and the results, somewhat unsurprisingly, are pretty dismal. Those taking part in the survey were only able to grab a 3G signal 75 per cent of the time on average. Despite operator claims that 90 per cent of the UK enjoys 3G coverage, those who took part in …
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Motorola is the god of hellfire and it brings you… the Motorola Fire! A budget Android mobile that apparently should be spelled using all caps, but we just can’t bring ourselves to do that. Motorola may have been snapped up by Google, but that doesn’t appear to have delayed its phone-spawning plans — the FIRE Fire brings us out in a sweat, …
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Good grief, will all you massive tech corporations just settle down for one gosh-darned minute and stop suing each other? Microsoft is the latest lawyer-happy company to fire a lawsuit into its rival’s face — it wants to prevent the sale of Motorola mobiles in the US, Bloomberg reports. The case, which Microsoft hopes will result in an import ban …
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Apple could be about to fill its iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices with delicious augmented reality, if a recent patent application from JobsCo is anything to go by. The filing, spied by Patently Apple, describes new features that would superimpose geographic and location data over a feed from your device’s camera. That would make it much easier to figure …
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BlackBerry blacksmith Research in Motion (RIM) is working on a music service for its smart phones, in a bid to move on from their involvement in the recent London riots and make its mobiles more musically tempting than their Spotify-toting iPhone and Android rivals. Called BBM Music, its subscribers will have access to about 50 songs at a time on …
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After consulting the tea leaves and having spilled the entrails of a newborn lamb, Nokia head honcho Stephen Elop has decided that Google’s acquisition of Motorola is a portent of doom for the Android operating system, Reuters reports. But then, y’know… he would say that. Speaking on Wednesday, Elop said, “If I happened to be someone who was an Android manufacturer …
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Apple could be working on squeezing its MagSafe charging tech into future mobile gadgets, according to a patent that Jobs and co have been awarded. The diagram above shows how Apple would squeeze its magnetic power supply into a device like an iPad — perhaps the iPad 3. It looks like the charging port could jut out diagonally from the …
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