As the fallout from the failed MobileMe launch continues to spread, I was a little surprised, Wednesday morning, when I got an email at my mac.com email Inbox from Apple on the subject. Yes, folks, I will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to use me.com instead. After providing a brief summary about the […]

After this past summer’s iPhone frenzy, I suppose if you don’t see a story about this hot-selling gadget for more than a few days, you can speculate that the fever has died down. Or, perhaps more accurately, that people are too busy enjoying them to complain about them. Certainly it was a raucous cat-and-mouse game […]

It’s a sure thing that few software companies would survive were it not for repeat customers. If you bought version one, they need to find some way to rope you into buying version two, and so forth and so on. If you get enough loyal customers, you don’t have to work quite as hard to […]

I can tell you that I have not really had any difficulty living in this world, where digital music players are incompatible, tethered to proprietary music download services. Apple’s FairPlay DRM is really not so odious as some might think. So long as you don’t feel that a Microsoft Zune must connect to iTunes, or […]