Yes, we know the Michael Douglas character in the 1980’s film, “Wall Street,” said “greed is good,” but you wonder just how far that can go without hurting your customers. And, no, I’m not about to talk about how the character might have evolved in the forthcoming sequel, since I haven’t read the script. To […]

I don’t really care if the decision came down from Steve Jobs, Tim Cook or another Apple executive, but the rollout of the new iPhone software was far less troublesome than last year. For one thing, Apple released it two days ahead of the unleashing of the iPhone 3GS (the space no longer is part […]

There’s been an awful lot of discussion lately about whether Apple plans to enter the “nascent” netbook market. While the name should pretty much convey the meaning of the product it describes, here’s a common definition (so we get our terms straight): “A small, low-cost, mobile computing device designed for consuming content, rather than creating […]

As the world wonders whether or not you’ll be able to buy the iPhone 3G in the morning or the early evening come July 11, the real question is whether the new software has all or most of the critical features missing from the original version. Yes, there’s some great stuff in iPhone 2.0, based […]