Rock legend Neil Young has always been something of a maverick, and his latest comments surrounding the music industry are unlikely to win him many fans in the boardrooms of record labels. Young told the Dive Into Media conference this week that music piracy was “acceptable” and “the new radio… that’s how music gets around.”
While little is currently known about the iPhone 5 that Apple’s likely to launch later this year, we can be safe in guessing that the camera will continue its steady rate of improvement. Now, if word from Adam Lashinky’s book Inside Apple is to be believed, the next-gen mobile cam will benefit from a little bit of magic. Read more
In a bit of a weird interview with an Italian news source, Google chairman Eric Scmidt has not only revealed that the company plans to make its own Nexus tablet, but has heaped praise upon Apple and its late CEO Steve Jobs. Read more
Walter Isaacson’s official Steve Jobs biography is a hefty old thing, which is probably why the ebook costs an eye-watering £12.99. If that seems too steep, however, you can now buy it digitally from the App Store for £4.99 …If you speak Russian. Read more
Morning… We’re halfway through the week! In celebration, we’re allowing you to read some tech news. Because we are ace. Come with us; we’ll pull you through the seaweed and into the crystal clear tech news waters beyond. Read more
Steve Jobs is set to become a permanent fixture on the streets of Budapest, after the Hungarian company Graphisoft has commissioned a statue of the late Apple CEO to commemorate his life. Read more
Steve Jobs probably wasn’t a fan of Spotify. Or at least that’s what we can glean from a previously buried interview from 2003. The talk, which has only just been published, reveals the late Apple CEO’s thoughts on subscription music services. Read more
The Steve Jobs biography released this week has stormed up the bestseller charts, both paper and digital, but a rather unexpected problem has affected some iBooks purchases of the in-depth bio by Walter Isaacson: glaring formatting errors with text and images, and ones that required Apple to email individuals advising them to delete and redownload the 656 page tome (at no extra charge).
