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    Old Wall Street Rumors Become New Wall Street Rumors

    January 15th, 2013

    So on Monday morning, Apple’s stock price took a drubbing because of a rumor, never officially confirmed by the company, that orders for the 4-inch LCDs used on the iPhone 5 were severely cut back for the current quarter. The alleged reason: Soft demand, meaning that the luster of the new iPhone had supposedly worn […]


    Making Excuses for Consumer Reports

    January 9th, 2013

    So a big fuss is being raised in the media over the fact that the iPhone 5 is not listed as the number one smartphone in the latest rankings from Consumer Reports. Based on product ratings of smartphones sold by the major U.S. carriers, the iPhone 5  is slipping. Some members of the media continue to […]


    The Love It or Leave It Argument

    December 27th, 2012

    In yesterday’s column, I discussed the need for a more powerful multitasking solution for iOS, with the option to be able to have multiple documents and apps available for instant tapping from one to the other and back. It was all about having a feature that would be closer in concept to the one in […]


    So Where Are the Great PC Tablets?

    December 11th, 2012

    You’d think that, with the release of Windows 8 on October 26, there would have been a whole new generation of innovative ideas from PC makers to exploit the features of the new OS. The Microsoft Surface RT was meant as the “design point,” according to Steve Ballmer, supposedly meaning that it would inspire other […]