Mark Hattersley

Apple's war on the English language persists with the announcement that its new iPad is a 'Resolutionary' device.

While Apple's colourful neologisms cause much mirth on this side of the Atlantic, it remains committed to portmanteaus, puns, creative miss-spellings and has a habit of using verbs as nouns.

Over the last two years the Macworld UK Twitter feed (@macworlduk) has been one of our favourite web inventions. Many people don't get, or don't like Twitter but we're not those people. We love Twitter.

And to put a face to the account, most of the time we means Mark Hattersley (@markhattersley) and Nick Spence (@nickfromupnorth).

RIM has launched its iPad-rival, the BlackBerry Playbook, at the Adobe Max conference in Los Angeles. We got our first look at the device, and some insight into why RIM believes it can take on the iPad.

The Playbook is a 7-inch multi-touch tablet with a similar design to the iPad, but integrating RIMs BlackBerry services.

With Apple announcing a further delay to the iPad in the UK, a lot of British readers have been asking about the process of importing an iPad from the U.S.A. to the U.K.

Commercially, this process is known as "grey importing;" on a personal level it's known as "buying stuff abroad" and is perfectly legal (otherwise holidays would be much cheaper).

is to open its first UK retail store at West Thurrock Retail Par, Essex on Friday 30 April.

According to Best Buy, the grand opening will be marked with four days of activity over the May Bank Holiday weekend with special deals, competitions, and entertainment.

Apple is said to be readying a new model of iPhone, dubbed the iPhone HD, for a summer launch.

Rumour has it that the new model will feature twice the screen resolution of the current model, enabling it to display high definition content on the small screen.

Apple is now shipping iPads to those people who placed an order on the first day. Don't get too excited though, Apple has instructed UPS to hold the iPads until April 3, 2010.

UPS is under strict orders to only deliver the Wi-Fi model of the iPad to US customers on 3 April. Whether a few models slip through the net remains to be seen though, our experience is that once they're out in the wild a few start to turn up.

Bob Borchers, Apple's senior director of worldwide product marketing for the iPhone has left Apple to join a Venture capital firm, reports the Wall Street Journal.

Borchers has been with Apple since 2004 and is best known to most Apple followers as the individual who demonstrated many of the original iPhone features in a video filmed by Apple.

In an oddly uncharacteristic move, Apple has quietly changed the way it is spelling the new iPhone 3GS, which now appears without a space all of Apple's press materials.

Apple's website, however, is still using the "iPhone 3G S" term. However, Macworld's understanding is that it is officially "iPhone 3GS" from now on and that the main website will be updated shortly.

Thinking Outside the Box

The iPhone has a reputation for childishness, and to be fair a lot of the apps aimed at children do aim for the lowest common denominator (we're looking at you, Pull My Finger!)

But there is a wealth of really cool looking educational apps aimed at kids, and making the most of the iPhone (and iPod touch) technology.

An iPhone patent filed by Apple details motion control and a front facing iSight on a future model of the iPhone.

Called "Variable Device Graphical User Interface" the patent outlines a number of new features intended for Apple's new product.