Not so long ago, the question I’m asking in this column would be considered downright insane, and maybe it still us. But please take a look at the facts and maybe you’ll see where Microsoft needs to consider this matter very seriously. In 1995, Microsoft released version 1.0 of Internet Explorer, an application derived from […]

All right, you can be certain that, between now and the actual arrival of iPads for shipping to customers, various and sundry financial and tech pundits will be trying as hard as they can to rip Apple a new one about the product. This is, in large part, a mirror of the six month run […]

You just know that Apple’s critics are busy harping on the features of the Nexus One phone, from Google and HTC, which appear to trump those in the iPhone. This should, so they say, make it the ultimate iPhone killer. But is any of that true? It is very clear that Google and HTC have […]