Steve Wozniak, one of the founders of Apple Inc, reckons that the iPod has had its day, and doesn't like the restrictions Apple have imposed on the iPhone. Wozniak, or Woz as he's more commonly known, spoke to the Telegraph and said oversupply could bring the iPod down:

"The iPod has sort of lived a long life at number one. Things like, that if you look back to transistor radios and Walkmans, they kind of die out after a while. It's kind of like everyone has got one or two or three. You get to a point when they are on display everywhere, they get real cheap and they are not selling as much."

Following Apple's incredible share price drop caused by recent Steve Jobs health scares, it seems Apple is trying to reassure people that Steve's A-OK and full of beans, vigour and, we might even suggest, spunk.

Originally, Apple put Steve's visible weight loss down to a "common bug" - but the truth is, slowly, beginning to out. Thanks to Steve phoning a journalist and giving him the full facts.

"This is Steve Jobs. You think I'm an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he's above the law, and I think you're a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong," Steve said, when cold-calling the reporter last week...

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The last time I met Qualcomm's CEO Paul Jacobs (pictured) in London three years ago he was enthusing about his nascent mobile TV technology MediaFLO. I remember being quite cynical at the time telling him that I thought the Nokia backed DVB-H mobile TV format was a shoe-in for the UK and indeed most of Europe and that he should concentrate on the US.

Well there's still no sign of any commitment to launch DVB-H in the UK, however MediaFLO is a step closer given that Qualcomm has just spent £8 million on buying some L-band radio spectrum. The official line is that it is to be used testing MediaFLO, but given the close relationship with Sky - the two company's trialled MediaFLO in Manchester last year - there's plenty of gossip that a UK launch of MediaFLO isn't too far away.

The Independent has published an interview with award-winning designer, Jonathan Ive, who has now won a record six D&AD awards, including one for the iMac and one for the iPod.

He explains how Apple's striving for great design affects everything it does. "We have a very clear focus that all the development teams at Apple share, a focus around trying to make really great products," Ive says. "That can sound ridiculously simplistic, almost naïve, but it's very unique for the product to be what consumes you completely. And when I say the product I mean the product in its total sense, the hardware and the software, the complete experience that people will have. We push each other, we're very self-critical and we'll take the time to get the product right."

Keen to move itself up the public's list of places they go to find stuff, Microsoft has today revealed a massive rethink and retooling of its Live Search portal.

The headline change - and the one that'll make you go "Ooh!" the most is its new Live Search Video, which now includes a "motion thumbnail" - a mini 30 second preview of the video on the search result page. Try it here. Hover your mouse over the search results - it's like magic!

Speaking to Tech Digest this morning, Microsoft's Brad Goldberg, general manager of the search business, said of the changes "We need the relevance of search results to get better. We had 20 billion documents indexed as of last Autumn. The way search looks has to change - you won't see a list of ten blue links in five years time."

Also announcing the coming of out-of-copyright books and digitised versions of 30,000 British Library classics to the search service, location-based mobile services and celeb gossip stat-tracking system xRank, MS is really pushing the boat out in the search wars...

If you missed it Google Israel went all black yesterday in honour of Earth Hour (something to do with raising awareness of energy conservation). Offline, Israelis were invited to turn off their lights from 8pm - 9pm, which is utterly ridiculous. Why not ask people to make sure they leave lights off during the day, rather then ask them to sit in darkness for an hour in the middle of the night?

After launching the touchscreen-only Viewty and Prada phones, you might think LG is keen to kill off the humble mobile keypad. But it seems consumers have said 'not so fast!' to the company, with the result that LG is now including slide-out keypads into a number of its touchscreen phones.

"We did a lot of research into consumers' reactions to touchscreen technology, and some are a little bit nervous," Jeremy Newing, head of marketing for UK and Ireland at LG, told me yesterday. "People still want to have a keypad, whether it's for texting or dialling numbers. So we're doing that."

He cites LG's new KF600 phone as an example of this policy in action, with its slide-out keypad, but also the way it splits its display into a non-touchscreen main screen, and a touchscreen 'InteractPad' which has virtual buttons that change according to what you're doing on the phone - texting, playing music, taking photos or whatever.