The world wonders — or maybe a few people wonder — where’s the ultimate TV interface that Steve Jobs allegedly developed in the final months of his life? According to his biographer, Walter Isaacson, Jobs boasted of cracking the code for the greatest TV interface ever, but nothing has come from this statement. Except assumptions. The first assumption was […]

Once upon a time, it was a very rare thing to see anyone with an Apple product. Consider all those years where the Mac barely made a dent in the PC business, and many people who did use Macs were often regarded as being just a little weird. Well, maybe I just took it personally, […]

So is the conventional wisdom correct? Is broadcast radio truly dead, yesterday’s news and all that? Now this ages me, but when I grew up, FM radio was the luxury you added to a car only if you checked off the appropriate box on the option sheet. FM meant clean sound, relatively free of hiss, […]

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 […]