So there are widely published reports this week claiming that Apple has teamed up with Kaspersky Labs, publisher of antivirus software,  to receive advice on bolstering OS X security. How do we know that? Because Kaspersky’s chief technology officer, Nikolai Grebennikov, said so, according to an interview published in Computing. Since we’re talking about a […]

When Apple was struggling to stay afloat in the 1990s, tech pundits and so-called industry analysts went hog-wild telling them what they should do to stay in business. Now that Apple is amazingly successful, they haven’t stopped talking. To them, Apple’s ride on the gravy train is about to reach the end of the line, […]

As speculation about the possibilities of the next Mac note-book revision heat up, some are wondering whether the MacBook Pro will become just another MacBook Air? Maybe it will be lighter, thinner, and perhaps contain a longer-lasting battery. At the same time, with the arrival of Intel’s Ivy Bridge chips, it’ll run faster too. It […]

Last winter, the Apple haters were delighted to learn that Amazon appeared to have a winner on their hands with the Kindle Fire tablet. That 7-inch gadget sold for a “mere” $200, and evidently did pretty well over the holiday season, with reported sales of several million units. Well, at least that’s what the industry […]