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    Do We Care About Corporate Lies and Dirty Tricks?

    August 7th, 2013

    When two local store owners play tricks against one another to get extra business, you don’t like it, but you sort of expect it to happen from time to time. But somehow it’s believed that corporations must adhere to a higher standard, though that doesn’t seem to happen all that often. So you have situations […]


    Isn’t it Time to End Patent Lawsuit Insanity?

    August 6th, 2013

    So Samsung was estimated to be worth a billion dollars less in the wake of a Presidential veto in their latest patent skirmish with Apple. The news came down over the weekend, when U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman announced that President Obama had made a rare decision to veto an ITC ban against some models […]


    Newsletter Issue #714: Apple Inc. and the Journalism Freakout

    August 5th, 2013

    It would seem that it’s not really hard to accurately report about Apple. The sales numbers and financials are clearly posted on Apple’s site, and you can conveniently compare the numbers to previous quarters and previous years. You can even compare the financials to other companies, within the limits of their reporting. And there’s a […]


    The Strange Case of the Phantom Tablets

    August 2nd, 2013

    So the story goes that the iPad became number one out of the starting gate, but that Android tablets have been fast encroaching on Apple’s space. Of course, we have peculiar ways of demonstrating such a fact, if that’s what it is. So we have the curious case of Google citing a study that indicated […]