Tim O’Reilly: The War for the Web is just getting startedMurdoch’s threat to take News Corp content out of Google’s results in just the beginning, says tech publisher Tim O’Reilly: big players like Facebook, Apple, and, yes, News Corp, are breaking off bits of the Web for themselves — and they won’t always want to share.
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Apple closes in on Microsoft
Ten years ago, Apple’s market capitalisation was $17 billion and Microsoft’s was $356 billion. Today, Apple’s is $182 billion, compared with Microsoft’s $261 billion. Can it come from behind to completely conquer the computing market?
Steve Jobs named CEO of the Decade
Fortune has named Apple honcho Steve Jobs as its CEO of the Decade, and has gone all-out in its celebration of all-thing-Steve. Here’s the interactive timeline, celebrity tributes and the obligatory photo gallery.
Is it Game Over for Nintendo?
Nintendo have reported an astounding 52% decline in profit due to slow Wii sales. Will a new DS be enough to save Nintendo? Did they focus too hard on appealing to Wii Fit mums rather than focusing on hard core gamers?
Is FarmVille the next Google?
Mobile phone apps aren’t all iPee Drunk style games. The app economy is booming, with Zynga, creators of FarmVille, being touted as the next big thing, while Apple’s App Store dominates the market.
Apple’s 10 big geeky announcements
Apple just unloaded a whole bunch of new products and features. Gizmodo rounds-up all the important bits, including cheaper iMacs, next-gen processors, the shiny new ‘Magic Mouse’, and more.
Dial-a-success: iPhones push Apple profits up 46%
Does it seem like everywhere you look there are iPhones? Well, Apple have sold 7.6 million of them in the last quarter, helping raise profits by a whopping 46%. The US are still in a recession, right?
Mini Disneylands: stores get a crisp makeover
Steve Jobs, who is both Apple boss and on the board of Disney directors, is sprinkling some of his magic fairy dust on the Disney stores, helping to make them more interactive and fun to play in.
iOffer: what a job offer from Apple looks like
So you’ve just scored a job with the hottest tech company in the world, Apple. They’ll probably send your through the standard paper work, right? Of course not: at Apple, even contracts are presented with the same sleek panache as the latest iPhone or Mac Book.
Creating an iTunes for print
Magazine publishers are worried Apple’s upcoming tablet computer could do to their industry what the iPod did to music, taking away their control over the product and cutting into their profits. Can the industry band together to create a united “shop-front” as its content goes digital?
The fresh battle of the apples
It’s the tech gods vs. the fresh food people as Apple challenges Woolworths new logo, which is either an apple or a stylised ‘W’, depending who you ask. But are Woolies and Apple really rivals?
A tale of two tablets
As Apple and Microsoft race to release their own tablet computers and get a foothold in the emerging e-Reader market, new leaks and rumours reveal what each party will be offering.
leaked Microsoft’s top-secret tablet
Images and details of a new tablet computer by Microsoft have been leaked online. We won’t lie: it’s mostly interesting because Apple is also releasing one, but both could be potential “Kindle killers” in the e-reader market.
VIDEO: Incredible, amazing, awesome Apple
Pride in your product is important for any business, but Apple’s bosses seem to not only have drunk their own Kool-Aid, they’re mainlining it on an IV drip. A montage of the company’s recent keynote address. See if you can pick up on a theme.
Where $1000 buys … less than $1000
Vanity Fair charts what would have happened to a person’s $US1,000 if they’d invested it in new establishment businesses from Amazon to Apple at the height of the market, October 2007.
Apple’s iPod shake-up: what it means to Australians
In perhaps the most overhyped media or tech event ever, Apple’s Steve Jobs made the huge announcement yesterday that the next iPod… will be getting a few new bells and whistles. Colour us shocked. Nevertheless, here’s what will be new for local Apple fanboys.
Why the old media dinosaurs aren’t extinct yet
The internet sneered and jeered at Rupert Murdoch’s announcement that News Corp will start charging for online news: “We won’t pay”. But the success of Apple’s iTunes and App store proves they will pay, says Leslie Nassar. Maybe the old man isn’t such a dinosaur after all…
Apple’s app economy worth $2.4 billion a year
$200 million worth of applications are sold in Apple’s iPhone store every month — that’s about $2.4 billion a year — according to new research that shows Apple is not only raking in the cash, it’s also completely dominating the competition in the smartphone market.
Sony unveils its Kindle killer
Sony has unveiled its new e-reader, hoping to regain back some of the market from Amazon’s Kindle. It costs more, but has a touch screen and supports a more open book format. Yet Apple’s mythical iTablet — which hasn’t been made yet — is still being touted as the real potential threat. Poor Sony.
iCrap: when Apple gets it wrong
Apple is known for its sleek, hip, easy-to-use products — but the company doesn’t always get it right. Wired look at five Apple products that really missed the mark.
Postcards from NYC: death of the music shop edition
What are music shops looking like in the Big Apple? Well, stuff the music shops, it’s the Apple store that’s getting all the traffic…
The secret life of Steve Jobs
Along with shiny white gadgets, secrecy is one of Apple’s signature products, says the Times. A peek at the life of the world’s most paranoid power-broker.
A news revolution in the palm of your hand
The iPhone has meant I no longer need to buy a newspaper for anything at all, says Alan Kohler, and the launch of Apple’s much-hyped new tablet computer — the iPad — may put Steve Jobs’ name alongside Johannes Gutenberg, John Walter and Giambattista Bodoni as a news revolutionary.
Australian newspapers reject Amazon’s Kindle
Tens of thousands of Americans now read their news via Amazon’s Kindle e-reader, but as Australian newspaper publishers gear up to deliver their content digitally, both Fairfax and News say they’re looking at other brands and models, with Sony and Apple;s products now more likely contenders.
The Apple-Google love-in is over
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from his seat on Apple’s board. The move comes at the heels of an FCC investigation into Apple’s ambiguous iPhone App Store policies, which saw the company reject an app made by Google. But there are broader ideological issues at stake.
