At once time, Microsoft could accurately boast of owning 95% of the personal computer desktops in the world. Clearly they would have preferred 100%, but nothing would stop Apple from working hard to make its presence felt. As Apple continues to grow faster than most skeptical analysts expect, the dominance of Windows has begun to […]

There’s been an awful lot of discussion lately about whether Apple plans to enter the “nascent” netbook market. While the name should pretty much convey the meaning of the product it describes, here’s a common definition (so we get our terms straight): “A small, low-cost, mobile computing device designed for consuming content, rather than creating […]

When it comes to Apple, sometimes you don’t know what to think about some of their long-time behavior patterns when it comes to marketing and support. In taping an interview for this week’s episode of The Tech Night Owl LIVE, author and commentator Kirk McElhearn brought to my attention the fact that Apple, after extolling the […]

So I was reading the latest issue of Time magazine, when I spied a flashy, somewhat cartoonish ad telling me that “You Need the Speed of Norton 2009.” Do I? Well, when I went to Symantec’s Web site to see just what this spectacular product was supposed to do, I found a link to the […]