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Rise of the planet of the tablets

The Planet of the Apes series of sci-fi thrillers in the late 1960s and early '70s depicted a world in which intelligent apes are the dominant species and humans have been subordinated.

By Mike Elgan | 09 August, 2011 00:13

Tags: Apple, hardware systems, tablets

The iPad stands alone

Where is the iPad's competition?

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | 08 November, 2010 22:11

Tags: Apple, applications, hardware, hardware systems, Microsoft, mobile, Mobile and Wireless, Mobile operating systems, Mobile OSes, software, Telecommunication

Psst, pass it on: Apple has no secrets

It appears that yet another Apple iPhone prototype has gone on a walkabout -- and this time not merely to a beer garden in Redwood City, but all the way to the South Pacific.

By Robert X. Cringely | 13 May, 2010 08:19

Tags: Apple, iPhone, iPhone 4G, Rock-iPhone 4G

iPad alternatives

Apple's iPad will be available on April 3 and reports suggest that the product is off to a good start, with hundreds and thousands being ordered from Apple's Web site. But the device has faced some criticism for lacking features such as a video camera, USB ports and support for technology called Flash that enables Web video.

By Agam Shah | 23 March, 2010 06:34

Tags: Apple, iPad, tablet PCs

How ending exclusivity agreements would change the telecom industry

US iPhone lovers who want their device freed from AT&T's wireless network could soon get their wish.

By Brad Reed | 10 July, 2009 08:05

Tags: at&t, doj, iPhone

Why the iPhone can't be 'killed'

Every few months, some new hopeful to the smartphone market will garner enough hype where various media outlets will dub it an "iPhone killer".

By Brad Reed | 02 July, 2009 08:09

Tags: Apple, Google Android, iPhone 3G S, Palm Pre, smartphones, sony

Opinion: The 5 best things about iPhone OS 3.0

Apple Inc. today pushed out the much-anticipated iPhone OS 3.0 update that company execs touted at last week's Worldwide Developers Conference. After spending some time with iPhone 3.0 on both an original Edge-based iPhone and last year's 3G model, I can tell you the update makes even older phones more responsive and offers a number of improvements -- some of them long overdue. Aside from the new features I highlight below, iPhone owners who download the update through iTunes will notice that, overall, the user interface is smoother. Animations don't stutter as they did before and data loads more quickly.

By Michael DeAgonia | 18 June, 2009 08:28

Tags: Apple, iPhone, iPhone OS 3.0

Is Apple gearing up to enter the enterprise?

It could be that a real battle is brewing between operating systems. Apple will fire first by releasing Mac OS X 10.6, known as Snow Leopard, in September. Microsoft's response, Windows 7, will hit store shelves a few weeks later, on Oct. 22.

By Michael Gartenberg | 12 June, 2009 07:02

Tags: Apple, Mac OS X, microsoft exchange, snow leopard

Palm Centro breaks ex-iPhone user out of jail

The iPhone bandwagon is now more like a cruise ship: AT&T reported Wednesday that 1.6 million people signed up for iPhone service in the first quarter. As an ex-iPhone user, I wish them luck, but I'm not going back anytime soon.

By Stephen Lawson | 24 April, 2009 05:07

Tags: iPhone, Palm

Withdrawing from the addictive iPhone

The iPhone is out of my life. I won't get into the messy details, except to say it wasn't Apple's or AT&T's fault.

By Stephen Lawson | 02 April, 2009 06:36

Tags: iPhone

Form, not function, focus of third-generation iPod Shuffle?

Wednesday's product launch of Apple's third-generation iPod Shuffle highlights the company's obsessive attention to design. The new version of Apple's most affordable digital music player arrives in a reduced color palette (with only silver and black being offered, compared to the virtual rainbow its predecessor has for color choices) and a single drive size: 4GB.

By Cyndy Aleo-Carreira | 13 March, 2009 09:31

Tags: Apple, ipod, ipod shuffle

Has Apple gone from brash upstart to mainstream middle age?

"One man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages," wrote Shakespeare in As You Like It .

By Dan Turner | 23 February, 2009 09:01

Tags: apple macbook

iPhone vs. Pre: Can Apple multi-touch patent shut down Palm?

Will Apple really slap a lawsuit on Palm the minute the Palm Pre starts shipping as a Sprint smartphone later this year? Apple's posturing has lots of people thinking so. The reason: Apple's newly awarded patent for multi-touch technology, which also drives the interface for the Palm Pre. Just when it began to look like Palm had finally produced an iPhone killer, Apple has conveniently found a way to shut down the whole show.

By Carla Thornton | 31 January, 2009 10:10

Tags: Apple, Palm, Palm Pre, smartphones

Why iPhone 2.0 won't yet rule the enterprise roost

Most of the world, it seemed, drank the Steve Jobs Kool-Aid about the new iPhone being a BlackBerry killer when the Apple CEO first announced the device earlier this year. But after nearly two weeks with the new iPhone 2.0 software on my iPod Touch, I can tell you that Apple has not yet delivered on that promise.

I returned the iPhone 3G after only 6 days!

I have no excuses - I should have known better than to let my gadget envy get the better of me. But, with all the new way cool features added to the iPhone 3G and the fact that my existing AT&T plan allowed me to upgrade at US$199, I decided to join the other crazies in line last Saturday afternoon and spend 2 hours to get my hands on a new iPhone 3G. I've spent more than 20 hours since then trying to get it to do what I needed it to do (i.e., synchronize with Outlook, stay charged up for more than a day, not die when I touch a button, etc.) and then I spent another 3 hours yesterday trying to return it. For more about why I now feel like a moron, read on...

Exchange for the rest of us

Like the presidential seal that vanished without comment from a politician's press podium, the competitive marketing brickbat that Apple flung at BlackBerry -- that BlackBerry's push e-mail works only with Microsoft Exchange, as if Exchange were an onerous burden -- quietly vanished from Apple's campaign.

The iPhone 3G was worth the wait

As I write this, my new white 16GB iPhone 3G is in the process of syncing about 10GB of music from my iTunes library. This is my second sync. Although I was one of the lucky ones able to both buy and eventually activate an iPhone 3G on Friday, I at first opted to copy over the same paltry 2GB of music that was stored on my first-generation 4GB iPhone along with my e-mail accounts and a handful of applications from the App Store. Having waited close to four hours in line at a New York AT&T store, close to 20 minutes for the purchase process, and another four-plus hours attempting to activate my iPhone at home via iTunes, I simply couldn't wait for a full sync before putting my iPhone through its paces.

Seven ways the iPhone sucks

I've used iPhones and I have an iPod Touch. I love the interface, and I dig the device. Initially, I had to resist the urge to just buy an iPhone and deal with these problems, but I didn't, opting to get a Nokia N95 instead. A year has passed, and I've realized that I definitely made the right choice -- the limitations of the original iPhone (and the iPhone 2.0) are simply too numerous. Perhaps I've been spoiled by my N95 (and truth be told, I'll be getting an N96 in the next few months), but no matter how you slice it, I've decided that the iPhone just isn't my cup of tea. Here's why:

Can you stop the iPhone now, IT?

One of my initial thoughts after hearing about the iPhone 3G was, "Hmmm, I wonder how the enterprise is going to keep this device out of the office." Last year, the checklist of reasons why IT shouldn't support it was pretty long, but Apple appears to have seen the lists and solved lots of these items.

WWDC & iPhone: A deep dive into Apple's mobile empire

On the keynote stage at Apple's 2008 Worldwide Developer Conference, Steve Jobs looked like a man who could use a Gatesian escape from the glass house to a quieter life spent in pursuit of passions that a CEO hasn't time to explore. The difference between Steve and Bill is that Steve's passion is already in his grasp. iPhone can be seen as a culmination point for much of what Steve has set his mind, hand, and brain trust to in the past decade.