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Article | 17/06/2013 Review: Sony's waterproof Xperia Tablet Z is bathtub-compatible

Times are tough for Sony. The once-venerated electronics manufacturer is struggling in the tablet, smartphone, and digital music-player markets, so I ...

Article | 8/05/2013 Five essential tech lessons I learned from 'Iron Man 3'

Marvel's latest superhero opus, Iron Man 3, opened this past weekend. I liked it, and thought its first 90 minutes were better than its climax, but be...

Article | 11/03/2013 Hands on with Marvel's new subscription comics app

Marvel Comics was an innovator when it launched its Digital Comics Unlimited subscription service in 2007. But sometimes being an innovator can burn: ...

Article | 4/03/2013 The iPad as a comic-book reader

Tablets, led by the iPad, have the potential to shake up the comic-book industry even more than ebook readers have begun to change the world of prose ...

Article | 7/12/2012 Opinion: Why I'm writing on the iPad

Words that spring from an iPad are not necessarily the same words that would come from other devices.

Article | 25/09/2012 iPhone 5 takes next step in smartphone evolution

It's been a little more than five years since Apple released the original iPhone. During that time the world has changed. People now expect fast, reli...

Article | 25/07/2012 Mountain Lion review: Apple gets its operating systems in sync

One year and one week since the release of OS X Lion, Apple is back with Mountain Lion, also known as OS X 10.8.

Article | 10/04/2012 iTunes: Time to right the syncing ship

iTunes is simultaneously Apple’s most important and problematic product.

Article | 23/02/2012 Hands on with Apple OS X Mountain Lion

Apple updates its iOS mobile operating system once a year. But why should the iPhone and iPad have all the fun? On Thursday Apple announced that it wi...

Article | 17/02/2012 Mountain Lion: Hands on with Notification Center

For years, many Mac app developers have had to design their own ways to get your attention. But with Mountain Lion, a true systemwide notification ser...

Article | 17/02/2012 Mountain Lion: Hands on with Notes and Reminders

Two of the new iOS-flavored apps to move to the Mac with the release of Mountain Lion this summer are Notes and Reminders. Here’s a sneak peek at how ...

Article | 17/02/2012 Mountain Lion: Messages replaces iChat, gets public beta

iChat is dead—long live Messages. With Thursday’s announcement of Mac OS X Mountain Lion comes the news that iChat is being upgraded and renamed to Me...

Article | 21/07/2011 Mac OS X Lion

In a decade, Mac OS X evolved from a curious hybrid of the classic Mac OS and the NextStep operating system to a mainstream computer operating system ...

Article | 21/07/2011 Apple adds Core i5, Thunderbolt to new MacBook Air

On Wednesday, simultaneous with the release of Mac OS X Lion, Apple announced the impending release of new MacBook Air models. The new editions of App...

Article | 6/04/2010 The iPad up close

Macworld editorial director Jason Snell takes a close look at the new Apple iPad.