Over the years, Microsoft has without doubt used every sales trick in the book with which to hawk its products. Back in the 1990s, for example, facing threats from advanced operating systems from NeXT and other companies, Bill Gates touted a formidable new technology called Cairo that would virtually destroy the competition. Over the years, […]

I don’t think anyone disputes the fact that a company would like to get on the inside track of a new technology. If they come up with a new idea that seems to have commercial possibilities, they will patent that development in the U.S. or another country. It’s also common practice among people who care […]

Among the various and sundry peripherals you might connect to your new Mac, a modem seems relatively benign. I mean, it’s not as if it represents a new technology, and the only reason you need to buy one these days is because Apple has decreed that we all should have broadband access. And that’s in […]