The beginning of what may be a long skirmish between Microsoft and Yahoo is now underway. So far, Yahoo has given a big fat negative to the offer of nearly 45 billion dollars to merge the two companies. This didn’t come as much of a surprise, as there were clear indications in recent days that […]

I feel your pain. Understand that I don’t own an iPhone, and I’ve been going back and forth for weeks as to whether I really need one. After all, I only use my wireless phone to make and receive calls, and seldom expand the contact list beyond my immediate family and friends. Indeed, even though […]

In recent days, Apple has paid some $700,000 in legal fees to the defendants in its failed action to locate the source behind revelations about an alleged product under development bearing the code-name Asteroid. Although the product got lots of attention as a result of the lawsuits, it never saw the light of day. Supposedly […]

As my son enters his junior year as an undergraduate majoring in both journalism and political science, one of his courses covers research. This may seem a trivial issue in a world where the word “Google” is a verb for online research. But it’s not always that simple, and someone who makes a living reporting […]