While this article is written ahead of Microsoft’s investor conference call for their most recent financial quarter, they are confronting a wealth of problems that cast a huge shadow over the company’s future prospects. Yes, they will continue to earn high profits from the sale of software and sales, but the PC market has changed, […]

In the scheme of things, the iPad, up until recently, was not considered to be an expensive product. The pundits had it that Apple would be charging up to $1,000 for the first version, and were totally flummoxed when Apple announced starting prices at just $499. Indeed, that price point formed the threshold for competing […]

When the very first iPhone arrived, it was a revelation compared to most existing mobile handsets. You didn’t have to endure a painful process in configuring your device, mastering that tiny physical keyboard, and coping with inept user guides to figure out the hard stuff. Indeed, for most of you there wasn’t any hard stuff. […]

So we all know that Apple has been fighting tooth and nail to assert intellectual property rights against companies who build mobile handsets using the Google Android OS platform. In a sense, it’s a proxy war, because much of what those companies are delivering, the alleged infringing products — other than a few proprietary interface […]