So there are widely published reports this week claiming that Apple has teamed up with Kaspersky Labs, publisher of antivirus software,  to receive advice on bolstering OS X security. How do we know that? Because Kaspersky’s chief technology officer, Nikolai Grebennikov, said so, according to an interview published in Computing. Since we’re talking about a […]

There were loads of expectations ahead of Tuesday’s announcement that Verizon Wireless would put the iPhone on sale beginning on February 10th. Add all of them up, then consider the simplest and quickest path to availability, and you end up with the latter. Even Steve Jobs didn’t consider the event important enough to show up; […]

When I wrote yesterday’s column, I lamented over the major scaling back of iOS 4.2’s AirPrint feature. Despite Apple’s original promise that you’d be able to print to shared printers on your Mac or PC, that feature died during the development process. For now you’re limited to a smattering of HP devices that support wireless, […]

Steven P. Jobs certainly didn’t gain any friends at Adobe when he pronounced Flash dead and buried earlier this year, essentially the next floppy disk. In response, Adobe’s PR people, and some of their executives too, have engaged in pointless spin control, while at the same time continuing to avoid the real issues. The most […]