We've all heard the rumours: Windows was based on Apple's UI ideas for the Mac and that MS was a plagiarising so-and-so. Well, now it seems as if Apple has done the very same thing to another small company. The iBooks interface that was demoed in the iPad unveiling was a spitting image, too exact an image to be anything but a copy, in fact, of ( Read more... )

Go here - Tablet  release liveblog for a liveblog from inside SF's Yerba Buena Center where Steve Jobs is, even as i write this, introducing and launching the iPad - Apple's long-awaited tablet. It looks gorgeous and, knowing Apple, a joy to operate. Here's hoping it makes it to India soon. Yum yum!

Edit ( 11.45 am IST): As the show progresses, I  ( Read more... )

A Fantasy iPhone was previewed by Gizmodo earlier today. And oh, what a killer set of features. If such an iPhone ever comes out, I'll be the first to queue up to buy one for myself. The pics and specs look yum - though the Qwerty keyboard isn't necessarily a dealbreaker for me. The camera and storage options, though, are fabulous - now if only ( Read more... )