I am old enough to remember a very tired joke. I bend my arm and say, “doctor, it hurts when I do this.” The doctor says, “Don’t do that!” As I said tired. It actually dates back to the early 20th century, part of a famous sketch from the Smith and Dale comedy duo that was later “borrowed” by other […]

When Steve Jobs famously said he’d go “thermonuclear” against Android because it was stolen property, and vowed to invest all of Apple’s huge cash hoard to pursue that fight, the statement was taken seriously. That Apple began to sue Samsung and other companies for patent infringement was merely the expected follow-up to the promise that […]

So is the curious romance with anything Samsung about to come to an end? This is the nagging question in light of the most recent problems with Samsung’s mobile sales and profits. Indeed, Samsung is once again issuing a warning to the financial community. They plan to announce that profits in the most recent quarter dropped by […]

So after a couple of weeks of on-again and of-again rumors that Apple was acquiring Beats Electronics, a maker of boutique headphones, the transaction has been officially announced. The figures mentioned a $3.2 billion purchase price, but new reports appeared the day ahead of the announcement that Apple had knocked down the final price to $3 billion. The […]