Jonathan Ive

Apple iPod nano

Verdict: Small, but not quite perfectly formed. Back to being sleeker as well as more usable than most rivals, yet still attractively priced. Given that one of the nano's selling points is its tiny size, squeezing a colour...

Technology: Bjango

Garry Barker | November 13, 2008 - So, no surprise that an anonymous building beside the railway station in the inner-eastern Melbourne suburb of Auburn is the headquarters of a young, innovative company with the curious name...

Dust in Your iPhone? Maybe It's Time For A New One

The problem with gadgets that "don't have any parts" is that you can't fix even very minor problems. I found myself pushing my first generation iPhone's "home" button two, sometimes three times before the device would respond....

Applelinks Tech Web Reader New MacBooks Edition IV

Apple And Asustek Reduce Notebook Outsourcing By 20-30% in 4Q08 • Apple Trimming Notebook Orders; Plans Fixes For New Models • Have a 30? Display? Want a new MacBook Pro? Get Comfortable • Study: new MacBooks likely 33% of US...

New MacBook Pro gets bent

Much has been made of the stiffness of the 'unibody' MacBook and MacBook Pro cases, but one owner has reported that picking up a MacBook Pro one-handed resulted in a slightly bent chassis. The MacBook and MacBook Pro models...

Delve Into the Magical Pixar World of Wall-E

After my trip up to San Francisco to visit ILM, I didn't think I'd be back up in the Bay Area again so soon, but duty calls. But, before we got a chance to speak with director Andrew Stanton, producers Jim Morris and Lindsey...

Apple's top iPod gun to depart; Papermaster in; Jobs succession gets murkier

Updated: Tony Fadell, the senior vice president in charge of Apple's iPod division, is leaving the company to be replaced by Mark Papermaster, a former Big Blue executive who is being sued by IBM over a non-compete clause. The...

The Language of Things by Deyan Sudjic; I'm With The Brand by Rob Walker - review

Julian Dibbell on the surreal capitalist Valhalla and the spread of "murketing". We live in "a world drowning in objects", writes Deyan Sudjic in The Language of Things. Sudjic is the director of London's Design Museum, and The...

Windows 7: Usability Testing

There was a surreal moment at the end of Microsoft's windows 7 reviewers' workshop on Sunday. During the question-and-answer period that closed the sessions, a participant asked Microsoft Senior vice-President Steven Sinofsky...

Windows 7: Usability Testing

There was a surreal moment at the end of Microsoft's windows 7 reviewers' workshop on Sunday. During the question-and-answer period that closed the sessions, a participant asked Microsoft Senior vice-President Steven Sinofsky...