Ian Williams | Posted on: October 9, 2012 | Category: Web/Tech
Patents (and software patents in particular) strike at the heart of innovation and are a touchy subject for a lot of people. On one hand they can be seen to encourage innovation by helping people protect what they have created, but on the other they can be seen to stifle innovation due to patent trolls [...]
Morgan McLintic | Posted on: September 12, 2012 | Category: Current Affairs, Music, PR, Social Media
What did you think of the Apple iPhone 5 press event yesterday? Chances are you didn’t watch it. For those of us that did, it held few surprises. For the first time, most of the rumors were true and the news was broken way before the event. The presentation was mainly a confirmation of the [...]
David Chaplin | Posted on: August 10, 2012 | Category: Social Media
What was hot on the web this week? Get up to speed on the latest trends, news and services with some of our favorite stories. Instagram adoption gathers pace amongst top global brands They say a picture’s worth a thousand words. But, it might now be more fitting to say a picture’s worth a thousand [...]
Dean Russell | Posted on: March 6, 2012 | Category: Media, Social Media, Technology, Web/Tech
With the iPad 3 due to be launched tomorrow, I thought I’d share my hopes on what the new device will include… The Power: Quad-core processor The iPad 3 will have to blow competitors out of the water on processing power, especially as they would be unlikely to launch another iPad for at least another [...]
Ruth Streder | Posted on: October 14, 2011 | Category: LEWIS, Media, PR, Technology
There are many examples of companies copying each other’s ideas – the Samsung and Apple battle being just one of many. While there are intellectual property, patent, trademark and copyright rules that need to be protected, I believe that copying ideas and improving them can benefit the marketplace – if the original source is credited. [...]
Eb Adeyeri | Posted on: November 18, 2010 | Category: New Media, Technology, Web/Tech
Every now and again something new comes around that makes you go, ‘That is cool’. From me it tends to happen when Apple have something new out. However this week there have been quite a few sites and apps that have really impressed me. (Maybe it’s because we’re in party season and I’m a bit [...]
lewis360 | Posted on: June 4, 2010 | Category: Current Affairs, Technology, Web/Tech
This morning, guests on the NPR News program, The Takeaway, discussed whether Apple could become the first Fair Trade tech company, in light of the 10 worker suicides at the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, Foxconn. Despite being a huge PR problem for companies like Apple who tap Foxconn for labor, lives were lost and other migrant [...]
Michael Hay | Posted on: January 7, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized
Well… Steve Jobs was missing certainly, due to his illness, but it seems that the Apple buzz which normally fills these shows was somewhat lacking at MacWorld this year too. No huge announcements. No ground-breaking products. No motivational speech from Steve Jobs. This is the last year that Apple will be speaking at MacWorld as [...]
Michael Hay | Posted on: January 17, 2008 | Category: Technology
In the battle to make the thinnest ever laptop notebook Apple seem to have won. But are they sacrificing functionality to do so? The new MacBook Air is certainly a beautiful site. I have yet to touch one but it looks like a work of art which is what you would expect from Apple. It’s [...]