You can say that Office 2011 for the Mac has been a mixed bag, which isn’t unusual for a Microsoft release. After several fixes, Outlook 2011, the replacement for the Entourage email/contact manager, has become reasonably usable for most people. But full compatibility with Lion is still an unfulfilled promise, even though we are days […]

Last year, Apple confounded expectations for a new iPhone by summer. It didn’t arrive until fall, and, to some, seemed somewhat of a disappointment. The iPhone 4s looked no different than the iPhone 4, and some tech pundits believed that Apple must make a major change every year. Of course, the look of the iPhone […]

It has been a long time since you could take Microsoft’s promises — or threats — seriously. After they conquered the PC world early on, almost every pronouncement from them was accepted as gospel by the media. Whenever they announced a product or service, they were believed. When those products or services failed to appear […]

Although Steve Jobs once put very cold water on the possibilities for a smaller iPad — it was all about you needing sandpaper to make your fingers small enough to navigate the tinier screen — rumors about an iPad mini just won’t stop. It has reached the point where such a beast must be inevitable, […]