So I recall all those lurid commercials of many years ago from certain high-power electronic retailers promising that they positively won’t be undersold. Of course they had so many terms and conditions in those offers that few people who requested a price match or a refund for overpayment were ever actually compensated for their efforts. […]

A now-deceased comedy performer once used the catch phrase, “If it isn’t one thing, it’s another” as part of a classic TV routine. And clearly that applies to Apple Inc. these days. Indeed, it’s not easy being a star, although many of you have no doubt aspired to that status. For one thing, bottom feeders, […]

If you asked me several years ago which Mac software I found indispensable, I probably would have placed QuarkXPress at or near the top of the list. Although I have made my living for years as a writer, I also worked for a time in the traditional typesetting industry, and later migrated to desktop publishing. […]

From stem to stern, you are seeing the iPhone dissected, boosted, obliterated, and everything in between. Whatever happened at the CES this week doesn’t matter at all. It was all Apple from the moment Steve Jobs took the stage at Moscone West Tuesday morning. Did Bill Gates give a keynote? Sure he did, but did […]