After being the tech media’s darling as the company that would take over the mobile handset industry and destroy Apple, Samsung is finding the traveled road more and more difficult. Sales are flat or declining, and profits are down. They are being hit on the high end by Apple, and on the low end by […]

As most of you know, IDC is a major industry analyst. The company is also a division of IDG Group, which also brings you, among other properties, Macworld magazine and the Macworld | iWorld Expo. So you sort of expect that IDC would be fair to Apple. But expectations are sometimes not met. So you have […]

If the published reports are correct — and they have yet to be confirmed by Apple — there will be a media event on Tuesday, September 9th to announce the next generation iPhone. Keeping with past as precedent, it’ll be called the iPhone 6, and will present some heavy-duty changes in form factor, particularly a […]

So it is now pretty well known that Apple won’t be able to take advantage of Intel’s latest chip family, Broadwell, until 2015. Well, not unless there’s a low-power Mac in the works that would represent a slimmer MacBook Air, or an Air-Lite version. The low-power version is the only Broadwell chip that’s come out […]