Oliver Haslam

Apple’s Forgotten Founder Weighs in on Jobs and Apple

While both Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are well known for their roles in bringing their dreams to fruition in the form of Apple, there's a third co-founder who often gets forgotten.

Ron Wayne co-founded the computer hardware startup back in April of 1970, along with his two best friends. And with the recent resignation of one of those friends, Wayne was shared his thoughts on the situation...

Another Apple Patent Keeps Your iPhone Screen Private

It's been a big week in Apple news. We've had a resignation, a new CEO, and plenty of other tidbits to come out of Cupertino. Now we have another patent application to add to the proceedings.

The patent in question relates to a possible method of “Obfuscating the Display of Information and Removing the Obfuscation Using a Filter. That's a mouthful by anyone's standards...

Amazon’s Android Tablet to Cost “Hundreds Less” than iPad

A new report from the New York Post claims that Apple is about to gain a new competitor in the tablet market, with online book store and music giant Amazon set to enter the fray with its own set of tablet devices.

Powered by Google's Android mobile operating system, Amazon's tablets are believed to be set to cost 'hundreds less' than the iPad's base $499 price tag. That pretty much confirms a $299 Amazon tablet...

Apple’s New CEO to Receive $380,000,000+ Bonus

We always assumed the top dogs at Apple received a decent wage, but MacRumors has dug up some information on just what kind of bonus new CEO Tim Cook will receive.

In an 8-K form filed with the SEC, Apple  has outlined a share deal that will make your eyes water. Cook will receive 1,000,000 shares which, when vested, would net the new CEO around $380,000,000 if they were cashed in today. Part of the deal is that he can't cash his investments for another ten years...

BlackBerry PlayBook to Get Email and BBM, Is the iPad Competition Starting to Catch Up?

RIM is set to finally put the finishing touches to its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet – four months after they released it.

Launched as a not-quite-iPad competitor, the PlayBook is a 7" tablet running the Canadian firm's new QNX operating system. QNX is, in fact, so new that it didn't have an email client at launch. Or RIM's unique selling point, BBM. That could all be about to change, as RIM begins to finally fix some, if not all, of the PlayBook's issues...

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Choose iPad Over Playbook (Not the Blackberry Kind)

iPads find their way into all kinds of places, and they're going to be an integral part of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' kit when the season begins. The team and its staff got sick of carrying around the old fashioned Yellow Pages-like playbooks of yesteryear. What could they replace them with? Well, iPad 2s of course!

Now, the 90-strong team will each receive an iPad 2 for referencing plays and NFL video archives...

Google Cutting Photovine Team, App to Die Too?

Google is ending Slide, the company behind the new social photography app called Photovine, according to reports.

The search giant intends to pull the rug from under all Slide applications, both Android and iOS, with Photovine being the most prominent on the App Store.

Google picked up Slide just over  a year ago for $200 million, and its leader Max Levchin will leave the company as part of the move...

Facebook Messenger Receives an Update, Still Not Available Internationally

Facebook Messenger has received an update in the App Store, bringing the version number up to 1.0.2.

The update offers minor changes, according to the release notes, but it is recommended that all users download the update as soon as possible due to some bug fixes. No major new features have been added to the app.

International Facebook users are still out of luck, with the social network once again deciding to keep the app a US-only affair...

Steve Jobs Gets the Taiwan Media Treatment

We love the guys over at the Taiwan-based NMA.tv media conglomerate, and they seem to love Steve Jobs, too. Barely days since the Apple co-founder left his post as Chief Executive Officer in Cupertino, NMA has put together a hilarious video showcasing the career of the charismatic Jobs...

Steve Jobs Biography to Include Details of Resignation

The highly anticipated official Steve Jobs biography will get an update to include the former CEO's resignation and new job title, according to a PCMag report.

Publisher Simon & Schuster told the site that the book, titled Steve Jobs: a Biography, will reflect the events of yesterday when it finally goes on sale November 21st...

OMG! Sega Bringing Sonic CD to iOS!

Those of us old enough to remember the Sega CD, or Mega CD (depending on where you happen to live), will readily admit that it holds a special place in our hearts. The Sega CD was arguably ahead of its time, and eventually died off with the arrival of competing products from Nintendo and Sony, not to mention Sega's own Saturn.

Before it was killed, the Sega CD did survive long enough to give us one of the better Sonic games to come to any platform since the original release.

With that in mind, I can perhaps be forgiven for squealing like a schoolgirl when I say that Sega is bringing Sonic CD to iOS...

Camera+ Used for Making Singer’s New Album Artwork

We already know that Apple's iPhone 4 packs a great camera, and it's been used for filming short films and music videos before now. The latest creative to harness the power of the iPhone is a songer-songwriter who, according to a post on Mashable, has used their trusty handset to snap a photo for a new album's artwork...