It’s pretty clear that when Google hired that team of Android OS developers in 2005, they targeted Microsoft as the main competition. Google and Microsoft have been engaged in a virtual battle to the death over search, and acquiring a startup that created a smartphone platform would give Google more ammunition to compete. But how […]

For an operating system that hasn’t officially been released yet — and all bets suggest it’ll happen by mid-week — there is some misinformation already flowing fast and loose. Maybe it’s not so serious yet, but you can see the handwriting on the wall. One particularly annoying tidbit suggested that you need a RAM upgrade […]

You have to consider how far the iMac has come. Back in 1998, it was an offbeat looking entry-level all-in-one computer. In fact, I was a member of Apple’s Customer Quality Feedback group at the time, which consisted of regular people who evaluated Apple’s hardware and software products. During the last few months in which […]

In the roll-up to the announcement of the iPad 2 earlier this year, tech pundits were rushing to be first with speculation as to what might change. A lighter, slimmer form factor seemed a given, not to mention a more powerful CPU. But then it became hazy, with some floating the possibility of a higher […]