It was only last year that Apple and Samsung had a heated row over one of Samsung’s latest tablets. The two companies argued over a patent infringement and Apple lost the case. Ever more companies are producing tablets, the two most hotly anticipated being from Blackberry and Microsoft. They are both powered by Google’s Android [...]

In the battle between books and screens the printed word has been on increasingly slippery ground recently. Yet books still hold a special place in the heart of many, something that is evident in the enthusiasm that many people treat books with. The sensation that books are more important than a simple collection of wood pulp [...]

Well it’s actually their headquarters but it’s been described by Steve ‘Big’ Jobs himself as a spaceship and if that’s good enough for him then it’s good enough for me. If you take a look at the newly released photo’s then it does indeed look like a spaceship, even one that is revolving at a [...]

As if there was ever any doubt. With Apple recently announcing its ten billionth app download, it’s clear that 2011 will be the year of the app. Smartphones are nearing ubiquity and it’s estimated that 18 billion apps will be downloaded in 2011, with consumers spending over $15bn in the process. If you’ve focussed all [...]

Hot on the heels of last week’s guide to intellectual property (IP) protection, a rather timely tidbit came to my attention, vis-a-vis the murky world of patent infringement. Okay, perhaps a little bit of an overstatement – it’s hardly drug-smuggling after all, and the case that came to my attention here involves one very rich [...]

Blink and you will quite literally miss them. Pop-up stores have been growing in popularity over the past decade and there’s a certain quirkiness to them that creates a buzz that has a tendency to go viral. Pop-up stores sound as though they might be made of paper, but they are often fully-functioning ‘bricks and [...]

Mobile World Congress is now approaching the halfway point in Barcelona, and there’s been a lot of exciting announcements, revelations and, well, general cool stuff. The main talking point seems to be Google’s stall at the event. Actually, ‘stall’ serves as a massive injustice to Google on this occasion, considering it has a huge slide [...]

There’s no question, Apple have become the Kings of consumer electronics design in recent years. But what would you like to see from the Apple lot in the future? I love an Apple – no not a granny smith, more like iMac. Apple are an innovative lot – there’s a wide range of products in [...]

Starbucks have had a bit of a spruce up after the Christmas break. The question is, is this one of those ‘new year, new me’ fad makeovers or are the purveyors of high street coffee onto a winner? Changing well known, distinctive branding for a newer design is always a massive risk. The consumer gets [...]

This years C.E.S show has featured more tablets than your local pharmacy. It seems tablets are the future of computer design… The computer world is going through a real shift lately. It seems every man and his dog is releasing a tablet. The one time gimmick and expensive extravagance is now the hottest piece of [...]