You just know that Apple’s lawyers and executives must be slapping themselves on their backs and smiling broadly after being awarded yet another U.S. patent for mobile technology. The latest and greatest covers a number of features of their amazing touchsreens. While I’m not an attorney — and don’t play one on television — you […]

In a world where Steve Jobs is king of the hill CEO-wise, it’s common to believe that one person may be indispensable to a company. When that person departs, everything falls apart in their wake. How can it be otherwise? Yet many large multinational corporations have survived and flourished after the departures — or death […]

When Apple first brought Push Notification to the iOS, there were howls of protest across the user base. Sure it was nice to be notified of, say, a waiting text message, or a chat invitation from AIM, but why must it be so intrusive? You couldn’t do a thing until you clicked on the message […]

So there’s a report this week about Microsoft’s first demonstration of the next great version of Windows, known at least for now as Windows 8. This comes on the heels of a curious action from Microsoft’s PR department, where they walked back a statement from CEO Steve Ballmer about Windows 8, and its possible arrival […]