I suppose there’s an eternal battle between a company’s product engineering and marketing departments. The former wants to deliver something as close to sheer perfection as possible, while the latter needs something to sell and deliver income to the company. As you might suspect, these goals are usually out of alignment. You just know, for […]

Please Note: We’re a little late today. Your long-suffering editor is recovering from surgery and things got, well, a little complicated Tuesday. But the situation is far more reasonable today. There was a time when publications had copy editors and technical editors to make sure that the material they published was as accurate as possible. […]

Over the weekend, Apple confirmed the purchase of Lala, a Silicon Valley startup that specializes in music streaming. That was sufficient cause to start the tech pundits speculating on how Apple would use its new acquisition, and whether we’re in store for an iTunes music streaming service in the near future, perhaps focused on the […]

So I get a call from MacMall on Tuesday morning informing me that my custom-built iMac with the quad-core Intel i7 processor was still backordered and that I’d have to wait for another week for it to ship. Oh well, I wasn’t surprised since Apple had extended its own delivery promise from five to seven […]