Before the dust settled on the introduction of the Napster-To-Go online music rental service, reports about breaking its copy protection technique began to surface. Of course, it’s actually Microsoft’s Digital Rights Management scheme, but that’s beside the point. I first got wind of it as I was taping an interview for this week’s episode of […]

When you look at it, Microsoft probably had no choice. As you know, in the past the company has tried to undercut its competition by bringing out free products that other companies asked Windows users to pay for. Certainly it worked with Internet Explorer, although the truth is that it was, in those days at […]

The concept of a cheap Mac is so unusual in our tiny corner of the universe, I dare say a lot of you probably aren’t quite sure what to make of it yet. Mac users, at least those who have made online comments, regard it as just another Mac and a new source of potential […]

For years, I have been complaining that Apple shortchanges Mac users on RAM. Starting with System 7.0 in the early 1990s, I regularly attacked Apple for selling computers memory starved computers. Now it seems I may have to backtrack on some of those statements. But don’t get me wrong: I would like to see all […]