Wearables: demand needs the right product.

By Adam Tinworth

Wearable speculation is rife with an Apple event on the horizon. The tech is there - but it needs to right product to create demand.

Apple, IBM and the startup opportunity

By Adam Tinworth

Apple had another great quarter, but it's already sowing the seeds of dramatically better quarters to come…

Another nail in the coffin of physical media

By Adam Tinworth

Apple finally removes the one compelling advantage Blu-ray had over digital media - but is it the threat of streaming that made it happen?

Forget shiny toys, Apple just built the future in software

By Adam Tinworth

Apple, the great hardware company, gave a software-only keynote yesterday. And developers and consumers both have good reasons to be interested.

Pre-Apple Keynote distraction reading

By Adam Tinworth

Four interesting articles to distract you until the keynote begins

Google & Apple: two different ways of building the future

By Adam Tinworth

The tech press loves to portray Apple and Google as two big beasts fighting over the future. But is that the reality of these businesses?

Could Apple bring the internet of things to the mainstream?

By Adam Tinworth

The latest rumour to emerge about next week's Apple keynote raises the possibility of one of our favourite things - the internet of things - going mainstream.

Wireless Mesh Networking: a connectivity cloud for Apple’s wearables?

By Adam Tinworth

Lurking inside the most recent version of iOS is a technology called wireless mesh networking. Could this be the backbone of Apple's wearables?

Wearables: Motorola watches while Apple waits

By Adam Tinworth

All eyes are on the… wrist? Wearables seem to be the next area of interest technological development, and the next wave of Android smartphones is only a few months away. Will customers wait for Apple?

What would an iPad Pro look like?

By Adam Tinworth

The team at CURVED/labs have been speculating as to what a theoretical, larger iPad Pro might look like. This is what they came up with…

NEXT up: medical Apple, comics APIs and the year of the CDO

By Adam Tinworth

Five interesting stories from around the web to kickstart your week.

What we can learn about Apple from today’s event

By Adam Tinworth

Another month, another Apple event. However, this one told us a lot about how the company sees the future…

Ballmer’s exit: he was the wrong man, playing the wrong game

By Adam Tinworth

The inevitable has happened: Steve Ballmer is exiting Microsoft, which is a fading giant in the technology game. Has he poisoned the well for his successor?

Apple TV: the harbinger of a quiet TV revolution

By Adam Tinworth

Apple quietly updated its Apple TV last week. Can we find some hints of its future in what was added?

Apple’s iOS7 And OSX Mavericks – a heavy bet on a mobile future

By Adam Tinworth

It'll be months before users get their hands on most of what Apple announced yesterday. But what does the keynote tells us about how Apple sees the world?

Secrets and silences: should you develop in public?

By Adam Tinworth

Google Glass is a great example of a company talking about a future product, and letting us get some insight into the shifting direction it's taking long before it arrives in our hands. But transparency isn't for everyone…

Google on mobiles: a two-way bet

By Adam Tinworth

Why does Google - the power behind Android - make such good iOS apps? Perhaps the competition between Apple and Google is more complex than most coverage suggests…

An iPad Mini heralds bigger changes to come

By Adam Tinworth

The week of the tablet gets underway, with Apple unexpected revamping the iPad - and rather expectedly launching the iPad Mini.

The true launch of iCloud Apple

By Adam Tinworth

While the iPhone launch has grabbed people's imaginations, the announcements afterwards showed us Apple re=engineering its ecosystem for the cloud age.

Does Apple have a service design problem?

By Adam Tinworth

People are suggesting that Apple's iOS Maps failure is a service issue - but could something deeper be at work?

iPhone 5: Gorgeous Hardware, Outdated Interface and Declining Services?

By Martin Recke

Today is the annual iPhone appreciation day. Lots, if not millions of people worldwide get their new, shiny devices. Designed by Apple in California, assembled in China. The launch of a new iPhone has grown into a phenomenon of pop culture. But what is this buzz all about? Is it still the hardware that matters?

Nokia: a product or a service company?

By Adam Tinworth

The gadget business is at an inflection point - some companies have figured out that service design is the route to competitive advtange, but some still obsess over products. Where does Nokia sit?

Amazon: It’s Services, not Hardware

By Martin Recke

In the beginning was the Hardware, and the Hardware came from Apple and IBM, and the Hardware was Apple and IBM. Then came the Software, and with the Software came Microsoft. IBM withdraw and left the Hardware to Dell and HP. Microsoft dominated the Software, and Apple got to the brink of bankruptcy.