I don’t know if I was surprised or not when I heard that Google was buying Nest Labs, a maker of connected home thermostats and smoke detectors. Sure, I suppose some believed that Nest Labs would have been a more suitable acquisition target for Apple since the founder, Tony Fadell, was the “father” of the […]

There’s a story this week suggesting that the non-appearance of an Apple branded TV set means the company is losing the battle to control your living room. This theory presupposes that other companies have solved the problem in innovative ways, and that nothing Apple can do would offer a better solution. Have they? I suppose […]

From the earliest days of the iPod, you could easily sync it with your motor vehicle’s audio system, or at least in some models, usually by connecting a USB cable. But it took years before you could wirelessly sync an iPhone or another mobile handset via Bluetooth, and, to this very day, not all models […]