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• Apple 'infiltrates the enterprise'

  By Ben Camm-Jones | 27 January, 2012 19:09

  Twenty-one percent of information workers questioned by market research firm Forrester are using one or more Apple products in their job.

• Rdio turns on Australian social music streaming service

  By Hafizah Osman | 20 January, 2012 08:14

  Rdio launched with more than 12 million songs available on every major platform

• Interactive e-books anticipated at Apple's NYC event

  By Ben Camm-Jones | 18 January, 2012 05:13

  Apple is expected to introduce interactive e-books for iOS devices at its education-themed announcement in New York on Thursday.

• 2011's top stories: Steve Jobs

  By Lily Walker | 27 December, 2011 06:42

  Earlier this year, the world witnessed a huge loss, there will never be a man quite like Steve Jobs, and not surprisingly, many of our most read stories this year were about the man behind Apple.

• Apple CTO: Steve Jobs 'made the impossible possible'

  By Ben Camm-Jones | 16 December, 2011 19:00

  Steve Jobs was able to inspire Apple engineers to make seemingly impossible tasks possible through his sheer strength of will, Apple's former chief technology officer has said.

• MacBook Air 'to sell 1.6m units per quarter in 2012'

  By Ben Camm-Jones | 14 December, 2011 03:40

  The MacBook Air will achieve sales of around 1.6 million units per quarter throughout 2012, analyst Mark Moskowitz of JP Morgan has said.

• Apple's Mac App Store Tops 100 Million Downloads

  By Ian Paul | 13 December, 2011 19:00

  Apple's Mac App Store has delivered more than 100 million downloads since launching in early January, the company announced Monday.  The Mac App Store is Apple's online retail outlet for PC applications for Macs running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or higher. While topping 100 million downloads is a far cry from the one billion downloads the iOS App Store sees every month, it proves the Mac App Store is popular with Mac users.

• Apple's iMac to lose position as top all-in-one PC

  By Ben Camm-Jones | 09 December, 2011 04:31

  Apple is currently the world's number one vendor of all-in-one PCs but is likely to lose that crown next year to Lenovo, according to research.

• Everything we know about Apple's new TV project

  By Ben Camm-Jones | 08 December, 2011 11:00

  It's widely accepted in the technology industry that Apple is working on a smart, internet-connected TV device. But what do we really know about the 'iTV' so far? There's been a lot of speculation flying around about an Apple TV set for several years, and many times it has been reported that Apple has been on the brink of an announcement - only for our hopes to be dashed at the last minute.

• Why Apple’s iPhone Will 'Drown in a Sea of Androids'

  By Katherine Noyes | 04 January, 2011 07:16

  Google's Android mobile platform may still follow Apple's iPhone in the smartphone race, according to fresh Nielsen data released Monday, but that advantage may not last long.

• Apple's switch to Sandy Bridge: Impact for gamers?

  By Keir Thomas | 11 December, 2010 09:28

  Rumors suggest that Intel's forthcoming Sandy Bridge integrated CPU/graphics platform will find its way into the lower-end range of the next generation of MacBooks. Bearing in mind Apple's cozy relationship with Intel and its habit of adopting each new generation of Intel's processors, this would make a lot of sense.

• 5 things Linux does better than Mac OS X

  By Katherine Noyes | 01 October, 2010 09:15

  Were it not for Windows' long-standing installed base and overwhelming market dominance, it seems unlikely that anyone would argue seriously for the merit of the operating system, plagued as it is by high prices, security problems and vendor lock-in.

• 10 Mac tweeters not to miss

  By Michael deAgonia | 27 February, 2010 07:02

  Who knew that "140 characters or less" could change the way people interact?

• Why Apple won't let the Mac and iPhone succeed in business

  By Galen Gruman | 11 February, 2010 22:15

  Last summer, it looked like Apple was finally going to make its Macs and iPhones enterprise-capable, giving hope to those who wanted a more stable, less failure-prone option at the office.

• Why businesses are embracing Macs

  By Leon Erlanger | 07 January, 2009 09:02

  It's not your imagination. Apple Macintoshes are turning up in businesses beyond the creative departments, increasingly becoming a normal part of the IT fabric. One recent IT survey by researcher Information Technology Intelligence shows that 23 percent of respondents had at least 30 Macs in their businesses, 12 percent had at least 4,000 Macs -- and 68 percent said they would let users choose Macs as their work PCs in the next year. A Forrester Research survey of larger enterprises showed that Macs now account for 4.5 percent of deployed systems. (Both IDC and Gartner report that Macs now make up 9.1 percent of all PCs sold to individuals.)

• What will Macs be like in 25 years?

  By Seth Weintraub | 17 January, 2009 05:48

  The Mac has been the flagship product for Apple since it was introduced in 1984 and continues to be so today, despite the fawning over the iPhone platform. From the time the Apple IIGS died out in the early '90s until the introduction of the iPod in 2001, the Mac was the one product line that Apple kept running.