Without mentioning the names of the usual offenders, I often wonder if some tech pundits exist solely to find bad news, whatever it might be, the better to increase the hit count, and regardless of whether the bad tidings are accurate or not. Take Firefox, the cross-platform browser that’s reinvigorated the tarnished reputation of the […]

Are you ready to write Tiger’s epitaph? Well, despite the fact that Wednesday afternoon’s release of the Mac OS 10.4.11 updater represents the last major update for that system, there will most likely be security fixes from time to time. As usual, the latest Tiger maintenance release has a slew of changes, some of which […]

You know a lot of what Steve Jobs says during interviews may be overlooked when controversy erupts about something Apple is doing at any given moment. Months back, for example, when Jobs was asked about a Software Development Kit (SDK) for the iPhone, to give third-party software developers a chance to build applications for it, […]

Holy nostalgia! Isn’t it strange how things sometimes go full circle? Take Netscape Navigator, the browser that I adopted and used on my Mac until Microsoft’s Internet Explorer came along and blew it away. That’s the price the erstwhile Netscape company paid for developing fat and buggy software and allowing a competitor to pull the […]