Macworld "Karen Haslam"

iPad verses the iPhone

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:04:00 GMT

So, it’s finally here. Well almost. Apple has announced the iPad and it’s set to change the world.

iPad means iFart in Urdu

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:17:00 GMT

While everyone is trying to come to terms with the name Apple has chosen for its world-saving tablet device – debating whether it sounds like a sanitary product or Thai cuisine – I have it on good authority from an Urdu speaker that it in fact sounds like something far worse.

Apple fires my old PR agency

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:36:00 GMT

Today’s news that Apple has fired its UK PR agency Bite has a bittersweet taste for me in my role as Editor of Macworld.

Loving Dancing Woz

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:40:00 GMT

If you didn't get to see the other Apple Steve on US prime time show "Dancing with the Stars" last weekend then take a look at this Dancing Woz You Tube clip.

Should Greenpeace be praising Apple?

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:16:00 GMT

Greenpeace is pretty happy with Apple for phasing out toxic materials in its new products, but has the company gone far enough.

Thin Steve Jobs

karen_haslam@macworld.co.uk — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:34:00 GMT

It kinds of amuses me that everyone’s so worried that Apple CEO Steve Jobs looks ill.

Big Mac market

karen_haslam@macworld.co.uk — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:30:00 GMT

With recession looming consumers and businesses are tightening the purse strings. However, the temperamental market may actually be a boon to Apple, according to a number of analysts who’ve been commenting on Apple’s ability to weather the recession while the rest of the industry falters.

Big Mac market

karen_haslam@macworld.co.uk — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:30:00 GMT

With recession looming consumers and businesses are tightening the purse strings. However, the temperamental market may actually be a boon to Apple, according to a number of analysts who've been commenting on Apple's ability to weather the recession while the rest of the industry falters.

Is iPhone ready for business?

karen_haslam@macworld.co.uk — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT

The iPhone created a whole new segment of smartphones targeted at consumers rather than business users when it was introduced last year. As a consumer who has tried to use a business-targeted smartphone (the HTC Touch for one painful month) I can honestly say that the frustrations of the Windows Mobile interface by far out weigh the usefulness of having a web browser and email access.

Is iPhone ready for business?

karen_haslam@macworld.co.uk — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Mum's the word for World of Warcraft

karen_haslam@macworld.co.uk — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:24:00 GMT

I was just checking the monthly subscription price for World of Warcraft as it gets mentioned in the copy of the magazine we are working on right now.

Mum's the word for World of Warcraft

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:24:00 GMT

I was just checking the monthly subscription price for World of Warcraft as it gets mentioned in the copy of the magazine we are working on right now.

Excel 08 crashes onto my Mac

karen_haslam@macworld.co.uk — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:46:00 GMT

Up until now I'd been quite happily using Microsoft Office 08... Then I opened Excel to start logging some information. Just a simple list is all.

Excel 08 crashes onto my Mac

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:46:00 GMT

Up until now I'd been quite happily using Microsoft Office 08... Then I opened Excel to start logging some information. Just a simple list is all.

Has Leopard killed my Mac?

karen_haslam@macworld.co.uk — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:00:00 GMT

The question is: should I have installed Leopard.

Has Leopard killed my Mac?

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:00:00 GMT

The question is: should I have installed Leopard.

Empty boxes takes shine off of green Apple

karen_haslam@macworld.co.uk — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:29:00 GMT

As Macworld sister title Computerworld has pointed out in a story this morning, Apple is selling empty boxes of .Mac in its retail stores. An analyst suggests that shoppers will be disappointed to find that there is just a serial number inside the box. What Computerworld doesn't mention is how environmentally unfriendly such a practice is.

Empty boxes takes shine off of green Apple

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:29:00 GMT

Wavering on your decision to get an iPhone?

karen_haslam@macworld.co.uk — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:11:00 GMT

So last night the boyfriend starts wavering on his decision not to buy an iPhone (see my Should I get an iPhone blog from earlier in the week). Between the hours of 7 and 9 it was looking like he might be about to join a queue outside the Regent Street store (my advice would have been to go to the store in Brent Cross…)

Wavering on your decision to get an iPhone?

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:11:00 GMT

Should you get an iPhone?

karen_haslam@macworld.co.uk — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:04:00 GMT

The iPhone will launched here in the UK on Friday, and no doubt a few of you will be considering signing up for a contract with 02.

Should you get an iPhone?

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:04:00 GMT

The iPhone will launched here in the UK on Friday, and no doubt a few of you will be considering signing up for a contract with 02.

Thoughts from Apple Expo Paris

karen_haslam@macworld.co.uk — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:56:00 GMT

Thoughts from Apple Expo Paris

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:56:00 GMT

Thoughts from Apple Expo Paris

Is the iPhone price right?

karen_haslam@macworld.co.uk — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:34:00 GMT

When I heard that Apple had dropped the price of the iPhone in the US by $200 I smugly thought that Apple had dropped the price from $599 (£300) to $399 (£200) in order to pave the way for a more reasonably priced iPhone in the UK.