The phrase “iPod killer’ may be among of the funniest of the last few years. It has been applied to every new MP3 player that some technology pundit felt would give the iPod its comeuppance. Well, as we all know, the only things that got killed were those competitive products, which failed in the marketplace. […]

For the past 21 years, nobody has disputed the fact that the Mac operating system was designed to run strictly on Macs. Or on computers licensed to do so by Apple Computer. Despite that oh-so-obvious fact of life, and loads of screw-ups along the way, the company has managed to somehow survive and, of late, […]

Before the dust settled on the introduction of the Napster-To-Go online music rental service, reports about breaking its copy protection technique began to surface. Of course, it’s actually Microsoft’s Digital Rights Management scheme, but that’s beside the point. I first got wind of it as I was taping an interview for this week’s episode of […]