I don’t know if I was surprised or not when I heard that Google was buying Nest Labs, a maker of connected home thermostats and smoke detectors. Sure, I suppose some believed that Nest Labs would have been a more suitable acquisition target for Apple since the founder, Tony Fadell, was the “father” of the […]

Let me put my cards on the table, without saying too much beyond the obvious. When Gmail began in 2004 as a public beta, where you had to be invited to sign up, I decided to give it a try. Now the same was true with Hotmail, AOL and other services over the years. I […]

So OS X Mavericks has been out for one week, so you must expect that the sky must be falling. After all, every time a new version of OS X appears, there are early-release bugs that potentially cause havoc. Or at least that’s what some might believe, although only a few releases came with show […]

A large tech company has to offer a free email service to be relevant these days, I suppose, particularly if they delve in search. Build a pretty site, add lots of features, and offer the accounts free. Sure, there will be targeted ads polluting the site to generate some revenue for the company, but I […]