Jazzy Fizzle, Fizzle, Fizzle! (If you don’t understand that, don’t worry). YouTube user Jonathan Mann duets with Apple’s personal assistant Siri with some funny responses.

iOS 5 is available this autumn and here’s the thick of it. Hang in there, there’s quite a lot to take in: Read more…

From the mouth of the man himself, what is iCloud? “iCloud stores your content in the cloud and wirelessly pushes it to all your device. It automatically uploads it, stores it, and pushes it to all your devices.”

By content we’re talking about pretty much everything; music, iBooks, photos and videos, device settings, and app data will all be backed up automatically when you connect to WiFi. Documents in the Cloud will effortlessly sync Pages, Numbers, and Keynote data between all of your iOS devices and calendars, mail and contacts will all sync for free. Read more…

Cloud based music services are all the rage as of late, first Amazon, then Google and predictably now Apple has entered the arena. The key difference being that Apple brings with it the backing of all five major music labels and some substantial experience and muscle in terms of online music downloads. Read more…

Another quiet day at Apple’s retail store in The Grove in L.A. until the stars of the Disney Channel’s latest production, Lemonade Mouth (no, me neither), decided to make a little viral video at Apple’s expense.

Hats off to the store’s employees for not overreacting and strong-arming the mob out of the store. However, given that Apple’s grande fromage Steve Jobs is the largest shareholder in Disney I can’t but think there may have been a little collusion in this prank, even if it were somewhere slightly higher up the corporate ladder. Funny nonetheless.

As anticipated, Apple announced today its new MacBook Pro lineup. With speed bumps all round, a nifty new FaceTime HD camera the already stellar MacBook just got better. Oh and they also sport a tinglingly exciting Light Peak port re-branded as Thunderbolt. For a full-ish list of improvements see after the break. Read more…

USB has been around for quite some time now in what is now three separate guises, 1, 2 and most recently 3. USB 3 has been pushed in recent years as the future standard for data transfer, the only problem with this is that not many companies, never mind consumers have been quick on the uptake. Sure, it’s a lot faster than USB 2, and who wouldn’t want their peripherals to operate with a little more haste, the real issue however is that for a number of years now there has been a shady figure hiding in the darkened corners of the halls of Intel biding its time before leaping out to devour the competition. It seems that time may be now, or at least soon (ish). Read more…

Over the past few days several photographs of third-party iPad 2 cases have hit the internet purportedly illustrating the shape and additional features of the inevitable refresh of Apple’s iPad line later this year.

Well, direct from the Consumer Electronics Show is the above shot published by iLounge and being shown at the show by peripheral company Gopod mobile. The company is showing off the case to illustrate its new foldable charging accessory.

Obviously there’s been nothing official from Apple yet on the iPad 2 and whilst the case shown above is not an iPad 2 and simply a mockup, it certainly reflects the information that has so far hit the internet about the slight re-design, speaker grill at the base and camera.

Delivering on its promise, Apple has sent confirmations to those who placed pre-orders that their magical mini black streaming boxes will be dispatched on 28 September.

Those having lessened their bank balance by £99/$99 can look forward to a whole load of streaming media from the likes of iTunes, YouTube, Flickr and Netflix (US and Canada only). If you’re expecting one, let us know and if you’ve got one, drop us a quick first impressions.

If you thought today’s Apple WWDC was going to be all about the iPhone, think again. Much information has been swirly around the internet over the past few weeks about what other products Apple might unveil at 6pm GMT today. There has been talk of Apple TV getting a huge redesign, the launch of Safari 5, the next update for Snow Leopard but not necessarily this. The Apple Magic Slate/Trackpad, both names are guesses. Pictures and info after the break. Read more…