A year ago most serious tech pundits would have laughed at the idea of a “mini” iPad out of Apple. The late Steve Jobs made it clear that the idea of a seven inch (17.8 cm) iPad was not on as such a “tweener” between the iPhone and the larger iPad was not wanted and would be “DOA”. However the rumors never quite died out and since Jobs passing in October 2011, have taken on new life.  Now, sources as diverse as CNET, Digitimes, Boy Genus Report and Wired are Read more [...]

Cook's basic salary was an agreeable $900,000 last year. He was awarded $376m in restricted stock units which, according to Fortune, depend on Cook's continued employment at Apple over the next 10 years.

After more than two years and 1127 posts, the technology blog is moving home. We're merging with Short Sharp Science, a blog for everything New Scientist covers in the world of science, technology and ideas.You can view that new, super-blog here, and see only the technology posts at this link.For those of you viewing in RSS, please update your readers to subscribe to this new feed.Tom Simonite, online technology editor Read more [...]

The creator of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, has made an odd request: for a kind of rating system to help people distinguish sites that can be trusted to tell the truth, and those that can't.Berners-Lee was speaking at the launch of the World Wide Web Foundation, which aims to ensure that everyone in the world benefits as the web evolves.In his speech he referred to the way fears that the LHC could destroy the world spread like wildfire online. As the BBC puts it, he explained that "there Read more [...]

As a Web designer, are you aware of the challenges that you may have to deal with while in the process of developing a website? You are probably thinking that most aspects of site development and design are tough. Yes, you are correct. But, perhaps, one of the biggest difficulties, which many professionals like you face, is on-site SEO. Do you know why? The main reason for this is that you have to optimise a website properly to make it easy for search engine algorithms (also called spiders) to read Read more [...]

Cook's basic salary was an agreeable $900,000 last year. He was awarded $376m in restricted stock units which, according to Fortune, depend on Cook's continued employment at Apple over the next 10 years.

After more than two years and 1127 posts, the technology blog is moving home. We're merging with Short Sharp Science, a blog for everything New Scientist covers in the world of science, technology and ideas.You can view that new, super-blog here, and see only the technology posts at this link.For those of you viewing in RSS, please update your readers to subscribe to this new feed.Tom Simonite, online technology editor Read more [...]

The creator of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, has made an odd request: for a kind of rating system to help people distinguish sites that can be trusted to tell the truth, and those that can't.Berners-Lee was speaking at the launch of the World Wide Web Foundation, which aims to ensure that everyone in the world benefits as the web evolves.In his speech he referred to the way fears that the LHC could destroy the world spread like wildfire online. As the BBC puts it, he explained that "there Read more [...]

Cook's basic salary was an agreeable $900,000 last year. He was awarded $376m in restricted stock units which, according to Fortune, depend on Cook's continued employment at Apple over the next 10 years.

If you are a tech geek like me you will have noticed the growing speculation surrounding the possible launch of a new iPad Mini. Personally I think this would be great because just like the next person I drool over the iPad 3, however I definitely do not drool at the price tag attached to it. Apple has been tipped to release this new mini iPad to compete with the smaller Android tablets because they sell much cheaper. If Apple had a slightly cheaper tablet they will be able to dominate all areas Read more [...]