A genius career move ... the man who went from Dixons (in Hemel) to boss of Apple stores (in California)

The chief executive of Dixons Retail is to swap Hemel Hempstead and an arduous retail turnaround for the Californian sunshine and highly coveted role of running the global stores of the technology giant, Apple.

Is this a post-PC and a post-Mac world?

Apple posted its Q4 earnings last week and reports of its imminent demise have been greatly exaggerated As if you haven't heard, Apple posted its Q4 earnings last week. I'll spare you my own encomium and refer you to these links: Despite its title, Business Insider's list of Facts About Apple's Business That Will Blow Your Mind contains little or no hype. TechCrunch provides context for Apple's ...

Former Apple CEO Sculley reflects on Jobs, PowerPC

Apple's former chief executive John Sculley has revealed details of his relationship with Steve Jobs in an interview with the BBC.

I Didn't Fire Steve Jobs, Says Former Apple CEO John Sculley

Apple's former chief executive John Sculley has revealed details of his relationship with Steve Jobs in an interview with the BBC.

Microsoft sees a future through cleaner Windows

Windows 8, the PC giant's new operating system, is stylish, award-winning, multi-platform – and critical to its future Among the many criticisms lobbed at Microsoft by Apple's late founder Steve Jobs, one of the best remembered was about design: "They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas ...