I wonder if Apple wasn’t somehow responsible, but, in the days before Apple’s Wednesday media event, rumors arose that Steve Jobs would return to the stage as host. When he appeared, still quite thin but spry, he got a standing ovation from the usually calm and collected cadre of reporters who were invited to the […]

It’s part of the human condition to tell stories and, often as not, to embellish the ones you hear in the retelling. Sometimes you wonder how information conveyed orally passes on through generations supposedly without loads of changes. So here’s a little story: Years ago, the late comedian Steve Allen would occasionally conduct an informal […]

When Apple announced the launch of AirPrint for iOS 4.2, I hoped that a workable solution had been found for printing on one of Apple’s mobile devices. But I was wrong! Originally, AirPrint was supposed to work wirelessly with printers that supported that feature without external drivers, which is essentially limited to a small number […]

It’s hard to realize that, at one time, Apple and Microsoft, in the person of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, were close friends. The very first versions of Word and Excel appeared on the Mac platform before Microsoft moved the lion’s share of development resources to Windows, in effect double-crossing Apple. In the 1990s, when […]