During the most recent financial quarter, Microsoft spent huge amounts of money to entice you to buy a Surface RT tablet. The ads were loud, frantic, and were models of misdirection in the sense that you learned nothing more about the tablet other than it was a device that made lots of clicks and resembled […]

All right, Apple has fought with the competition in the courts over patents for several years. There have been a few wins, a few losses, and a few draws. But at the end of the day, how have these legal skirmishes changed what you or I can buy? Except for some minor software revisions as […]

For one day, at least, it appeared as if the Wall Street freakout over Apple’s past and future prospects might be abating. The stock price had begun to soar way ahead than the market, increasing by nearly ten dollars per share at the end of the trading day, but that could be a blip. Predicting […]

Amid reports that the iPhone garnered some 51.2% of smartphone sales in the U.S. during the last quarter, at least according to one survey, you wonder how Microsoft’s costly Windows Phone initiative is going. The answer, it seems, is not very far. The survey, from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech USA’s consumer panel, is based on 250,000 interviews, […]