Can you hear it? The nothingness? The strange and gratifying silence that only comes once a year. The unnatural calm that precipitates out of every Apple September event? Everyone is holding their breath, mouthing the same wordless question: Just what the hell are Jobs and Co going to drop on Wednesday...
A new month, and a new salvo of Apple rumours to wade through - this time concerning iTunes, with the web salivating over the prospect of an iTunes/Twitter/Facebook/Last.fm partnership. Thing is, it ain't gonna happen. It certainly looks like Apple is planning some sort of social networking integration...
With spring apparently just around the corner, I have the sudden urge to sling out loads of all junk and make things shiny and fresh for the new season. Of course I could spend hours going through the attic and taking old carpet squares, dried up paint and more to the tip, but a much easier form of spring...
Probably a decent hit to your wallet. The anticipated "one more thing" announcement made at the annual spectacle known as Macworld was Apple's decision to (finally) remove digital rights management from its iTunes store. This means that songs purchased from the iTunes store won't be...
In North London a small minority of the local community is demanding that McDonalds takes down an ad on a railway bridge because, “they feel they don’t want their children exposed to advertising for McDonalds.” There’s no rational reasoning for this, if there was they’d see that McDonald's food is...
I must have been sleeping while this happened. Most people know LimeWire as software used to illegally download software, but it also has a legitimate music store and it just added 1.2m tracks beginning at $0.27. It's so new its "still in beta", but it already has thousands of tracks and...
I don't think brand identity has caught up to the social network trend. When you think of the big digital brands, what comes to mind? My Space, You Tube, even i Tunes. I think we'll start seeing different prefixes: We, Our, Us - that connate a more collaborative concept. I wrote about this a...
