In recent columns, I’ve covered at length the attempts by the tech media to present the just-released Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone as not only superior to the iPhone 7 but more advanced than the unannounced iPhone 8. The latter is obviously an absurd comparison. But what bothers me most is that the Galaxy S8’s known flaws […]

All right, so if I heard someone tell me that Steve Jobs not only wasn’t going to deliver his famous keynote at the next Macworld Expo and that Apple itself would pull out of the event after 2009, I would tell them they were probably drinking too much Kool-Aid. Yet, that’s precisely the news that […]

In the event you haven’t heard all the scuttlebutt, the nascent Web radio industry is about to come crashing down because of an ill-considered decision by a three judges known collectively as the Copyright Royalty Board. Known as the CRB — and I hesitate to use any more descriptive titles right now in the hope […]