Once upon a time, the computer placed on the desk of the typical employee in a large company wasn’t a PC at all. It consisted of a simple terminal, no local storage, providing just enough processing power to run a display with decent performance. The main computer was a mainframe placed in a special room […]

The bad news comes from Gartner. The Mac reportedly shed market share during the June quarter. At a 4.9% decline, it’s not much, but it stands in contrast to the rest of the PC industry where four of the major players, HP, Dell, Asus and Acer, reported slight increases. Other PC makers fared about the same as Apple […]

Let me get this out of the way: Windows 10 has proven to be a pretty decent upgrade as Microsoft’s OS goes. It fixes some of the worst ills of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, particularly when it comes to using a traditional Windows desktop interface and a working Start menu. For the previous versions, […]

Although mostly in line with expectations, Wall Street freaked for a time when it was announced that iPhone sales dropped in the March quarter. It was the first time since Apple’s smartphone debuted in 2007. After a steady pace of growth, a pace that few competitors could match, the tide had turned. To some, it […]