My daily surfing appetite is satisfied by dozens of sites. Some are news-oriented, others entertainment, some not so easy to categorize. Most of them have ads of one sort or another, and that makes sense. You shouldn’t expect to get all this free content without someone else paying the bills. Just as you will encounter ads […]

All this for a headphone jack. First comes the claim that the iPhone 7 must be a minor update because, well, the case will look pretty much the same as the current model. Such reports are apparently based on alleged prototypes that strongly resemble the iPhone 6s. Perhaps that’s true. There’s no way to know […]

In the world of politics, there’s such a thing as fact-checking. When a politician says something that’s clearly false, or at least misleading, there are reporters who will pounce on those statements and correct them. Despite the corrections, most political figures usually don’t bother to change their stories, or if they do, the change is filled […]

Instead of the usual silly argument about how Android has mauled Apple into irrelevance by having a larger market share, a recent piece at ZDNet actually discusses the real problem with Google’s platform. No, it’s not the fact that lots of mobile handset makers release cheap junk running Android. It’s more about the open source nature […]