Ok iPhone lovers, you know the situation - you're out with your phone, and you've forgotten to bring the damn charging cable. If only you'd stuffed the wire in your pocket, you'd be able to charge it in your car, in the socket at your friend's place, at the coffee shop etc ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 20, 2018

It's Monday, gerbils, which means it's back to the wheel with you. Here's what you need to know -- or might at least want to know -- going into the new week. 1. Site Survey This morning in the White House Rose Garden, President Obama will hold a press conference where he'll ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

Get ready to forget the world's problems, line up at your nearest Apple Store and do battle with thousands of other marauding consumers...the iPhone 5s is here!!!! How is it different to the other 10 million smart phones out there? Well, firstly it's Apple, and secondly, it ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 20, 2018

Tech geeks everywhere got massively excited yesterday about the release of a brand new Apple product - the 'iPad mini'. The device fits in your hand and does everything a regular iPad does, but on a smaller screen. Look, I'm a big fan of Apple, so I'm not here to lecture. I'm ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 20, 2018

An independent investigation has found "significant issues" among working practices at Chinese plants making Apple iPhones and iPads. The US Fair Labor Association (FLA) was asked by Apple to investigate working conditions at Foxconn after reports of long hours and poor safety. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

In the American mind, if Apple made weapons, they would undoubtedly be drones, those remotely piloted planes getting such great press here. They have generally been greetedas if they were the sleekest of iPhones armed with missiles. When the first American drone assassins ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

It is entirely normal to mythologize people after they are gone - prominent and effective leaders are often cannonized in the media, their virtues given priority in accounts of their lives and their flaws relegated to background noise. Steve Jobs, a truly visionary figure who ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Sad news - the legendary Steve Jobs has passed away. Apple put the following fitting words up in memorial: Image via CrunchBase ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

A fascinating report in the Atlantic on the Unversity of Southern California's experimentation with an online virtual classroom: Since USC and Kaztman teamed up to create the country's first online course for a master's in teaching, called MAT@USC, the school that graduated ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018