According to the published reports ahead of the release of iOS 6, it was due to arrive at 10:00 AM Pacific on September 19; adjust the timing depending on where you live. But at 9:45 AM, one Mac rumor site was already touting its availability, so I quickly launched iTunes to see if I could […]

On Thursday, Apple released the first maintenance update for Mountain Lion, coming just over four weeks after the release of 10.8. This rapid schedule is pretty much par for the course. With every version of OS X, a fixer-upper has arrived a short time after the point-zero release. Now there have been several issues reported […]

So let’s see here. Nokia’s efforts to sell smartphones with the Windows Phone OS have, so far, failed. It’s reported that AT&T invested $150 million to get you to buy a Nokia Lumia 900, the flagship Windows handset, and it failed. Those endlessly irritating ads said that the Lumia 900 was the first smartphone that […]

So I’ve been spending a fair amount of time reading the initial chatter about Mountain Lion. While it appears to be a mostly solid release, there are those inevitable growing pains that Apple will have to address in the first couple of maintenance updates. Chief among these is battery life. A fair number of early […]