Apple's 30th Birthday [part 3] - The post-Jobs decline

With Steve Jobs out of the way, Apple CEO John Sculley briefly presided over what has been described as the first 'golden age' of the Macintosh. The computer that had been launched with a single Super Bowl advertisement took Apple's share of the market to over 40 per cent as the Mac was successively refined and enhanced. At the same time the operating system went through a series of evolutionary changes, peaking with System 7, which was released in 1991 and introduced full colour handling and powerful networking capabilities. ...more

Netvibes opens up the personalised portal

Netvibes is bidding to put the power to create all-you-need-to-know Web portals in the hands of individuals. Eighteen months ago, the Paris-based company pioneered the creation of personalised home pages with live news feeds that update instantly instead of the static, occasionally updated pages common on blogs, social networks and older Web portals. In its new incarnation, Netvibes is giving users, for free, the power to publish their home pages as personal Web portals. ...more

Government campaigns for an online Christmas

Avoid the crowded high street and get your Christmas shopping done with the click of a mouse - this is what the Government is hoping we'll all be doing over the next month. In bid to heighten consumer confidence and spending on the Net, the DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) has launched a campaign to drive shoppers online, backed by figures from a recent MORI poll that found a healthy 12 million of us have bought something online in the past year. E-commerce Minister Douglas Alexander, said: 'More people shop online here in the UK than in any other country in Europe. ...more

Government focuses e-services on digital television

Television to be key framework for delivering government services online. At a product launch of an Internet-enabled set-top box, Anwar Choudhury, Director of Markets Technology and Innovation, revealed 'a new policy programme that requires every government department to consider digital television (DTV) as a key framework for delivering online services'. Choudhury said that while league tables showed we are near the top for e-commerce and making strides with broadband, the UK leads the way for digital television with 40 per cent of households owning a DTV set. ...more

Belkin quadruples wireless throughput

Belkin has introduced a new range of wireless networking products which it claims are up to four times faster than standard 802.11g equipment. The Pre-N router and client adapters use Airgo Networks' MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) smart antennae technology to increase both the speed and range of wireless signals, whilst remaining compatible with the 802. ...more