Every few months, another Mac gets an update. Except for the extra promotion about moving to unibody enclosures, and the last MacBook Air upgrade, the product refresh is announced with little more than a press release, and perhaps a few brief interview opportunities with senior Apple executives, but not Steve Jobs. More interesting is that […]

Those so-called supermarket tabloids, such as the National Enquirer, are notorious for publishing bad news. Usually, it’s about celebrities or politicians, and the readers appear to enjoy reading about the peccadilloes of the rich and the famous. Most of the time, those stories appear to be made up in a reporter’s word processor, although some […]

You may not know this, but there is a major mobile phone industry event in progress this week, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. That’s where the movers and shakers in that business are busy showing off their new products and services. That is, except for one company who has managed to upstage yet another […]

I gather there are some of you who assume that, because something is published, it must be true, even if it comes from a site that posts rumors. This can become a trifle irritating when the report ends up being only partly true, or completely false. When you read an erroneous story, you might wonder […]