As usual, Apple must play by a different set of rules when it comes to Wall Street. You would think a company’s profits would actually make a difference, but that expectation would be wrong. So even though Apple’s margins, though somewhat lower than before, are the envy of the tech industry, it’s just not enough. […]

In the old days of desktop publishing, the ideal personal computer display had a resolution of 72 dots per inch, which essentially meant that the page you saw on the screen was about the size of the physical version. Of course, color accuracy was another story entirely. Today, displays are far sharper, at the expense […]

Although Steve Jobs once put very cold water on the possibilities for a smaller iPad — it was all about you needing sandpaper to make your fingers small enough to navigate the tinier screen — rumors about an iPad mini just won’t stop. It has reached the point where such a beast must be inevitable, […]

You might consider me a recovered computer book author. I wrote loads of them from 1994 through the early part of this century, before I grew weary of churning out four or five titles a year for a pittance. I decided there had to be a better way to make a living, although I grant […]