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RSS appleMac users just can't kick the Windows habit
News The research found that nearly 85 per cent of homes with an Apple machine also own a PC. The typical Apple household tends to be fond of its hardware, owning twice as many gadgets as the average home,... [06 Oct 2009]
Internet Explorer slips again as Firefox breathes down its neck
News All of the Microsoft browser's main competitors - Firefox, Apple's Safari, Google Chrome and Opera - increased their share over the same period, according to web tracker Net Applications. Internet Explorer's share of the... [06 Oct 2009]
Adobe's Flash coming to smartphones, netbooks
News Most major smartphone platforms will support the software - Google Android, Symbian, Palm WebOS and Windows Mobile - but Apple has yet to sign up. Photo credit: Apple) Flash is ubiquitous on the desktop... [05 Oct 2009]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Windows 7, Apple and those tablet rumours
News The Microsoft head honcho also gives his opinions on perennial rival Apple, saying of the Mac maker's latest ads: "They've done a very good job of marketing to their 3.5 per cent of the market. Ahead of a visit to the... [05 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The tech press were excited to see the return of Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the company's annual launch event in September. Apple used the event to announce the release of the new OS 3.1 for both the latest... [02 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying no to Macs
News Apple's desktop market share has been inching up for some time and, if analyst stats are right, now hovers around the eight per cent mark. But the business world remains immune to the pull of Apple's... [02 Oct 2009]
Minority Report: Is Microsoft competing with imaginary Apple tablets?
Comment Are Microsoft and Apple about to lock horns yet again, this time in the battle to reign king of the Tablet? It was a launch that never came to pass, despite being widely predicted by Apple fans and Wall... [01 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Symbian
Cheat Sheet However, it was the swathe of software makers that entered the market a couple of years ago that really turned up the heat on Symbian by making its OS look increasingly dated and clunky - Apple's iPhone OS, which arrived... [01 Oct 2009]
Vivek Kundra
AS Profile Before being appointed as CIO Kundra had served as CTO for Washington DC, where he was praised for making bureaucratic systems more efficient and transparent and drawing on applications from Google and Apple. [30 Sep 2009]
Marc Benioff
AS Profile In 1984, he worked as an assembly language programmer in Apple Computer's Macintosh Division, and he founded entertainment software company Liberty Software in 1979 when he was 15 years old. As head of Salesforce.com,... [29 Sep 2009]
Daniel Ek
AS Profile Spotify is now also available via the Apple App Store as well as the Android mobile phone platform, further extending its potential to compete with iTunes. Daniel Ek co-founded the Spotify on-demand music streaming... [29 Sep 2009]
Dave Girouard
AS Profile Having previously worked for Apple's marketing he knows a thing or two about building brands, and Google is also delivering the technology to back it up, something which is clearly going to concern more traditional... [29 Sep 2009]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Perhaps reflecting the increasing ambitions of Google, Schmidt left Apple's board of directors in August after saying the two businesses were starting to overlap too much. Google CEO Eric Schmidt makes the Agenda Setters... [29 Sep 2009]
Evan Williams
AS Profile It's not the first time Twitter has featured in the silicon.com Agenda Setters list, its rise since last year is marked: then the three co-creators (Williams, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone) were collectively ranked 22nd, a full 20 places... [29 Sep 2009]
Vodafone gets a slice of Apple's iPhone pie
News Vodafone has revealed it will be the third mobile operator to offer Apple's iPhone in the UK and Ireland. The announcement follows hot on the heels of news yesterday that rival network Orange has signed a deal to sell... [29 Sep 2009]
