As I write this, Apple’s stock price is soaring, and that’s a surprise. Usually, after they release record-breaking financials, Wall Street seems to react negatively. No, I’m not about to explain the workings of the financial community, and I doubt anyone can with any meaningful level of accuracy. The biggest difference this time out is […]

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 […]

So I recall all those lurid commercials of many years ago from certain high-power electronic retailers promising that they positively won’t be undersold. Of course they had so many terms and conditions in those offers that few people who requested a price match or a refund for overpayment were ever actually compensated for their efforts. […]

Although couched in an expected and extremely positive spin about future earnings, Microsoft didn’t have an awful lot to crow about this past quarter. Income from Windows was rather lackluster, even though sales of new PCs are on the increase around the world. So what’s at work here, and why the disparity? Well, one alleged […]