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Minority Report: Should Apple set its music free?
Comment Apple's decision to sell music without DRM is certainly risky. The Apple boss wrote an open missive called 'Thoughts on Music' arguing that DRM technology in online music was neither... [11 Apr 2007]
Apple flunks green tech test
News Apple has come bottom of a list compiled by Greenpeace that ranks 14 major electronics manufacturers in terms of their green credentials. Apple in particular has attracted the ire of the environmental... [04 Apr 2007]
Supply chains go on-demand
Comment Some things go well together, even if they were not specifically meant for each other in the first place: teenagers and SMS, Apple and music, mums and 4x4s. Today's global economy throws up another such... [04 Apr 2007]
Rising PC sales failed to lift revenue in 2006
News Apple also saw its fortunes rise. Apple is the fourth largest PC maker in the US, ranked behind Dell, HP and Gateway and barely ahead of Toshiba, according to IDC. Worldwide, Apple is... [18 Jan 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: Stories of the year
News We're talking about the codename for the Apple mobile phone/MP3 player hybrid which despite persistent rumours failed to appear, making the gadget the biggest non-story of 2006. Much debate has gone into whether... [20 Dec 2006]
Mobile sales boom - Asia-Pac take a bow
News However, analysts are already predicting a shake-up in the market if rumours of an Apple iPhone prove to be true. Global mobile phone sales have increased by 21.5 per cent during the... [22 Nov 2006]
Microsoft: 'No plans for Zune outside US'
News Zune will go head-to-head with Apple's iPod when it goes on sale in the US from 14 November, and reports this week claimed the device would not hit the UK until late 2007 or early 2008. Frazer acknowledged the current... [02 Nov 2006]
US man charged over Akamai DDoS attack
News Akamai provides caching services for websites belonging to big-name companies such as Apple, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! He then used this botnet of hijacked computers to send a massive amount of traffic to the DNS... [25 Oct 2006]
Sony recalls own batteries - Toshiba to sue?
News Over the past two months computer makers including Apple, Dell, Fujitsu, IBM, Lenovo and Hitachi have recalled Sony batteries. The Sony battery recall is isolated within Japan and China but the analyst said he "can't... [17 Oct 2006]
Sony set for mass battery recall of its own
News Previous laptop battery recalls were issued by Apple and Dell in August for specific laptop models containing Sony batteries, after it was discovered that some batteries were overheating or exploding, causing fires even... [04 Oct 2006]
Microsoft's Ozzie named the top man in tech
News Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who won the poll in 2005, came in third, followed by News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch - the only individual to be named an Agenda Setter every year since the poll's inception in 2000 - and... [25 Sep 2006]
Q&A: Seven years of Agenda Setters
AS Analysis I believe products were a factor in 2003, when Steve Jobs won due to the success of the iPod and iTunes and the resurgence of Apple - he was a very popular choice. Niklas Zennström of Skype fame and before that Kazaa... [25 Sep 2006]
CIO Essentials: Luke Mellors' picks of the week
News Virgin bans in-flight use of Apple, Dell laptops But what is more concerning is that imminent and necessary global regulation, social consciousness, money laundering, fair play and bankruptcy mean that... [19 Sep 2006]
Google gets political
News Apple and IBM are among the large companies that have refrained from forming PACs so far. Davidson added in an email interview: "It's simply a part of our company's steadily increasing involvement in... [19 Sep 2006]
Global cyber-crime treaty gets Senate nod
News The Business Software Alliance, a lobbying group whose members include Apple, Cisco Systems, IBM, Intel and Microsoft, said the treaty "will serve as an important tool in the global... [07 Aug 2006]
