It may come as a surprise given the handset's rip-roaring success, but Apple's iPhone very nearly didn't make it out of the company's development labs, according to a man who would know; Apple Senior VP of Design, Jony Ive.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
Hotmail has been around for what feels like forever, and alongside Gmail it has been one of the most used online email services on the planet. Today Microsoft gave its own email service some competition, with the new Outlook.com preview set to run alongside Hotmail, at least for now.
Do you live your life on Facebook but happen to be unfortunate enough to be forced to use either Windows Vista or XP? Maybe you've got some bespoke hardware or software that needs one of Microsoft's older operating systems in order to function, but still need to be able to keep in touch with everyone via the modern wonder that is Facebook. Well, you're in luck.
With just a few short months left until we expect the next iPhone to be announced, ready for an expectant public to drool over. We go through this around the same time every year, but we are right bang in the middle of a time we like to call 'silly season,' when any and all rumor has just as much chance of being absolutely true as it does being completely made up!
There is one big story in Mac software right now, and that's OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion. Available for less then twenty dollars via the Mac App Store, the update to Mountain Lion is all geared around building on top of your current, working system. If you're like us though, you probably like to have a nice clean install of your operating system every once in a while, but the Mac App Store doesn't always make that the easiest thing in the world.
A new game has been released for the iPad and iPhone that ties right into the upcoming Total Recall movie remake. Set around the storyline you may be well versed in, the game weighs in at over 150MB and is available to download now.
UK fans of Samsung's Galaxy S III now have two more handsets to choose from, with the popular handset available in two new limited edition guises that take advantage of the company's London 2012 Olympic sponsorship.
Every once in a while Microsoft gets ready to push out a new dashboard update for its Xbox 360 console. Sometimes a few cosmetic changes are all that console owners can expect to see. Sometimes, though, there are plenty of juice little changes for gamers to get their teeth into.
All the talk around the internet right now is about the latest version of OS X to grace our beloved Macs. OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion, went live in the Mac App Store this morning and is already being well received by reviewers and real users alike.
Microsoft next big developer conference, BUILD, will take place at the company's Redmond campus this year, with the fun set to kick off on October 30th. Developers from around the globe will be invited to take part in Microsoft's big annual developer conference, and this time it will be held at Microsoft's own office complex. It's not quite Apple's spaceship campus, but we can't have everything in life now, can we? I guess not.
