Stung by perfectly awful sales of the Surface tablets, Microsoft on Tuesday made it clear that they aren’t giving up on trying to deliver some sort of a tablet solution. In a media presentation in New York City, Microsoft launched a 12-inch model, one clearly meant as a direct note-book replacement rather than a dedicated mobile device. […]

A day before the event happened, there was growing speculation of a minor refresh for the MacBook Air. The chatter centered on a very modest processor upgrade, using the very same Haswell chip family that powered the 2013 versions. And, on Tuesday morning, it happened. It was a sort of 100/100 deal, with processor speeds […]

As most of you know, Microsoft is not nearly as flexible or successful as Apple in keeping secrets. Sure, news about an upcoming Apple gadget will usually leak from the supply chain, but software releases tend to get a higher level of protection from the teeming masses of tech journalists and financial analysts. Of course, […]

So most of you know that the 30th anniversary of the Mac was observed on January 24 of this year. Unlike in previous years, Apple actually paid attention to the event, and had some videos and other information honoring the anniversary on their site. Certainly those of us who were interested in such things in […]