Ahead of the introduction of nine smartphones sporting the spanking new Windows Phone 7 operating system, the reviews are starting to come in. Whether that’s good or bad for Microsoft is an open question, but some serious shortcomings have already surfaced, and it reveals the major flaws in the company’s approach to product development and […]

All right, let’s put a few cards on the table. You know, or should know, that the iPhone has been a far greater success than most analysts predicted. Even Apple’s original estimate of garnering 1% of the market at the end of 2008 was extremely conservative. Since then, many of those alleged tech analysts that […]

There has been an ongoing meme among tech journalists (and even the mainstream media) over the years that Apple must fail unless it can be first in all markets served. This attitude is the result of the fact that Apple has been consigned to a small minority of the PC market. In the PC industry, […]

On this week’s episode of The Tech Night Owl LIVE, we talk with Laptop magazine’s Avram Piltch about Apple’s spanking new MacBook Air. Along with reports that the product may already be flying off the shelves, particularly the 11.6-inch version, the early reviews are nothing short of spectacular. Piltch, who is certainly no ardent fan […]