Someone once said that a dog biting a man isn’t news, but a man biting a dog is. When it comes to product reliability, you can’t just say everything is hunky-dory, because that would be what you ought to expect. Indeed, you should read this alarming title carefully, just to be sure what I’m getting […]

To some, Michael Dell is the marketing genius who made PCs commodity products and built the number one personal computer maker. To others, he can sometimes be a loose cannon who makes wild statements, such as the one, some years back, that Apple Computer ought to just close up shop and pay off its investors. […]

Just the other day, I heard that the current Star Trek franchise, “Enterprise,” is going to be cancelled because of declining ratings. This will be the first time in years that no new Star Trek TV shows would be produced. Of course, it had a great run, but it brings to mind the sad truth […]

For years, diehard Windows users, and that includes some technology writers, have pronounced Apple dead and buried. It’s not that Apple hasn’t at times contributed to the speculation. But a company that has loads of cash in the bank and shows good profits each quarter isn’t on life support. At the same time, the market […]