State of the Mac, 2012
Tech giant Apple posted record-breaking numbers in Q1 2012, selling 15.4 million iPads, 15.4 million iPods, 37 million iPhones, and 5.2 million Macintosh computers for total sales of $46.33 billion....
View ArticleApple Wows the World…Again
It was yet another Apple media circus last Tuesday, Oct. 23rd, but with four rings this time: the new iPad mini, the fourth-generation iPad, a new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display, and a wholly...
View ArticleSurviving Conference Wi-Fi
Google once held a press conference to announce that the firm and its partner, EarthLink, would provide San Francisco with free Wi-Fi. It didn’t instill much confidence in the attendees that the...
View ArticleTop 10 Apps for Production
REFERENCE Sun Seeker (iOS $8.99; Android $5.99) maps Old Sol’s path via “augmented reality” and indicates hourly intervals, sunrise/sunset and winter/summer solstice paths so you can set up outdoor...
View ArticleCan an iPad Replace Your Laptop?
With every new smartphone, tablet or multifunction-Wi-Fi-enabled personal doohickey comes at least one prediction that this latest device is really—really!—the long-awaited laptop killer. In the early...
View ArticleSurface RT vs. iPad for Business
Both Apple’s third-generation iPad and the new Microsoft (MS) Surface RT are in the same price range ($500-800), weigh about 1.5 pounds and run a touch-based OS. The Surface Pro model, on sale in early...
View ArticleGreat Gadgets & Digital Diversions
Once again, we take a day off from serious stuff—new flexible displays, Microsoft’s woes, the latest from Apple—and consider some of the fun, cool things that technology makes possible. Countless ideas...
View Article“Big Tech Day”: Apple Shines, Microsoft Bust?
With so many recent product announcements, upgrades, and rollouts, there is a lot of ground to cover. We’ll be discussing some of these things for weeks (or longer), so today’s post will be a “grand...
View Article4 Technology Battlefields of 2014
Technology advances, sometimes gradually, sometimes spectacularly. We keep tabs as best we can on this never-ending parade of progress, especially progress on the tools that we provide tech, web,...
View ArticleSneak Peek Review of Office for iOS
Microsoft Office for iOS was a rumor for much longer than it’s been a “fact,” but as with all things Microsoft, if Mary Jo Foley says it’s happening, it is. Fact is, Apple could never break into the...
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