Just this week, AT&T revised their wireless data plans for smartphone users. Although the entry-level price is higher, you also get more bandwidth for your money. Well, that is unless you are still using the grandfathered unlimited plan, as I am, and rest assured I have no intention to change. At the same time, you […]

When the iPhone 4s first arrived, the critics complained. Despite being “late” on arrival (even though there was no official release schedule), it didn’t look any different from the iPhone 4. Why bother? Of course, that didn’t stop customers from lining up to get one. Even now, there’s a backlog of several days at Apple’s […]

When Apple was really down in the dumps in the 1990s, their strategy seemed to make no sense. Efforts to build an industrial-strength operating system to replace the aging Mac OS had come up short. There were many Mac models, often with only slight variations, bearing different model names. It got so confusing even company […]

I suppose the move must have made perfect sense to a lot of AT&T’s executives. After all, the company was a survivor in the aftermath of a long-ago antitrust decision to break up “Ma Bell,” and create a bunch of “Baby Bells.” AT&T’s second coming was the result of mergers and acquisitions, and thus, when […]