If the published reports are correct — and they have yet to be confirmed by Apple — there will be a media event on Tuesday, September 9th to announce the next generation iPhone. Keeping with past as precedent, it’ll be called the iPhone 6, and will present some heavy-duty changes in form factor, particularly a […]

As Microsoft prepares to shed 18,000 employees, you’d think the company’s marketing team would be working overtime to boost income and shore up weaker products. Instead, it doesn’t appear that any lessons have been learned from the ongoing failure of the Surface. Now in a previous round of Surface ads, Microsoft touted the ability to run […]

Consider the situation. There isn’t a whole lot of new stuff coming out about Apple. We’re in that ephemeral hole between the last Apple announcement, a minor MacBook Pro with Retina display refresh and the forthcoming releases of a new iPhone, iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite. Sure, it appears that a detente may be […]

When you consider possible release dates for new Apple products, it’s easy — and perhaps lazy — to just consider the past. A new Intel chip family arrives and within weeks there will be new Macs, most of the time. This year, by the way, Intel’s new chip family will be late, so Apple so […]