Karen Haslam - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Karen Haslam

Article | 23/08/2012 Is this the new 8-pin connector for the iPhone 5

If Apple switches to a eight-pin connector it may render old and existing accessories unusable

Article | 22/08/2012 Apple tells resellers 'make room for more iPads this September'

Apple has told its authorised resellers in Europe to dedicate more floor space to the iPad. The company has told its Apple Authorised Resellers that t...

Article | 2/08/2012 Apple fuming over Samsung's "unethical" press leak

Apple is fuming over Samsung’s decision to send evidence – deemed inadmissible by the judge in the Apple v Samsung trial - to journalists.

Article | 1/08/2012 iPhone 5 launch leak 'came from Apple'

Reports today are suggesting that Apple cares too much what Wall Street thinks about it, has purposefully leaked the news of the iPhone 5 launch and, ...

Article | 3/07/2012 iPhone 5 will dominate 2013, Mac to become 'major contributor', analyst

Apple will dominate the smartphone market in 2013, according to an analyst who claims when the iPhone 5 launches this autumn it will incorporate 4G LT...

Article | 31/05/2012 Tim Cook: there may be more potential in the Apple TV

Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that Apple has “some incredible things coming out,” and spent some time speaking about the television business, but he add...

Article | 30/05/2012 Doctor under fire for using iPhone as torch in miscarriage procedure

The woman, who had just had a miscarriage, alleges that when the examination light didn’t work, the doctor asked a nurse to hold his iPhone up with th...

Article | 30/05/2012 Apple's big mistake was marketing Siri as "Magical", developer

Developer thinks that the problem with Siri is that Apple hasn't managed users expectations. The company should have made it clear that the service wa...

Article | 30/05/2012 iOS beats Android for ad impressions globally

iOS gains 45% while Android achieves 38% of ad impressions globally. Per device, the iPhone gains 30% of ad impressions and the iPad achieves 7%, as d...

Article | 29/05/2012 Baidu coming to Chinese iPads, iPhones, pushing Google out

A Baidu product manager is said to have disclosed that Baidu had finalized an agreement with Apple to integrate the popular Chinese search engine. He ...

Article | 28/05/2012 Apple Store staff get salary rise, 3 months early

John Browett made the announcement to employees in a video – not only announcing the pay rises, but also awarding them three months early.

Article | 26/05/2012 Apple CEO Cook's doing a good job, but Jobs 'would have lost his mind over Siri'

An ex-employee revealed that people at Apple are “embarrassed by Siri”. Siri is Apple’s voice-recognition ‘PA’ feature on iPhones that has come under ...

Article | 24/05/2012 Siri-like Dictation coming in Mountain Lion

Rather than being a Mac version of the Siri-style personal assistant available in beta on the iPhone 4S, the Mac tool is more likely to be the Dictati...

Article | 24/05/2012 Nvidia to make $US199 iPad-killer possible

According to Nvidia vice-president Rob Csonger, speaking at the company’s shareholder meeting last week, the graphics card company is working on Kai, ...

Article | 22/05/2012 Steve Jobs doll selling phones in New York

Remember all those Steve Jobs dolls that Apple got a bit hot under the collar about, understandably.