There’s a growing and mostly media-inspired controversy about what information Apple’s Location Manager in your iPhone is collecting about you. Yes, there is a feature where you will allow the unit to store such information, but this data is supposedly stored anyway as a file regardless of your preference. With growing concerns about online privacy, […]

So in recent days, I’ve read one or two favorable reviews of the $799 Motorola Xoom tablet computer, a highly-touted iPad competitor. The TV ads seem flashy enough, and, based on specs alone, I’ve little doubt it is one powerhouse of a gadget. But are specs everything? Certainly the arrival of the iPad last year […]

When the first iMac arrived in 1998, loads of Mac users — and the usual skeptics — complained about what you lost. Where was the SCSI port? Where do you connect a mouse and a printer? And no floppy drive? How dare they? As you may recall, the original Bondi Blue iMac had Ethernet and […]

The news that there were over one million software downloads from the Mac App Store in the first 24 hours seems but a blip on the horizon. It’s not a lot when compared to the iOS App Store, but you can surely see the handwriting on the wall. What’s more, as third-party developers line up […]