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    Microsoft Continues to Fade into Obscurity

    August 16th, 2012

    So let’s see here. Nokia’s efforts to sell smartphones with the Windows Phone OS have, so far, failed. It’s reported that AT&T invested $150 million to get you to buy a Nokia Lumia 900, the flagship Windows handset, and it failed. Those endlessly irritating ads said that the Lumia 900 was the first smartphone that […]


    Can There Be No More iPhone Surprises from Apple in 2012?

    August 14th, 2012

    If you’ve been following all the chatter about the next iPhone, the iPhone 5, the new iPhone, or whatever it’s to be called, you may wonder if Apple has any surprises left. After all, it appears that nearly every possible detail has already been disclosed, from the basic features, to the design. Consider what we […]


    Newsletter Issue #663: The Mountain Lion Report: Is My Problem Your Problem?

    August 13th, 2012

    So I’ve been spending a fair amount of time reading the initial chatter about Mountain Lion. While it appears to be a mostly solid release, there are those inevitable growing pains that Apple will have to address in the first couple of maintenance updates. Chief among these is battery life. A fair number of early […]


    Reading the iPhone 5 Tea Leaves

    August 8th, 2012

    According to published reports, someone tweaked the iPhone simulator in Apple’s developer tools to present a resolution of 1136×640, which is the rumored layout of the rumored 4-inch display on the iPhone 5. Supposedly the Home page looked normal, but gained an extra row of icons. If confirmed, this experiment would appear to indicate that […]