On the surface, an iPad comes across as a pretty innocuous gadget. It’s just a rectangular object with a display, and buttons for volume and muting (or rotation lock if you prefer). It’s a blank slate in the best sense of the term, meaning it does nothing till its turned on and you start running […]

It seems pretty clear to me that AT&T has a serious problem. They clearly didn’t plan for the onslaught of data consumption on the part of newly-minted owners of iPhones and other smartphones over the past few years. Problems are legion. In some larger cities, iPhone users report frequent disconnects, assuming they’re able to get […]

As many of you know, AT&T wireless was cobbled together from several mergers. This meant several years of growing pains, to integrate networks, and to make the wider system of cell phone towers compatible with each other. It’s fair to say that AT&T still gets ragged on for being way behind the curve, particularly when […]

As the iPad 2 remains sold out most anywhere, the only question is whether Apple can build enough to satisfy the demand. But there’s another cloud hanging over production, which is the impact of the earthquake in Japan. Since many semiconductor parts are built there, any slowdown or halt in manufacturing is bound to cause […]