When it comes to satellite radio, I go back a long way. I first interviewed someone from XM Radio around 2004 or 2005. In exchange, they gave me a press account for a few months. I later converted this to a paid account and, when my personal finances hit the skids, my son picked up […]

As some of you know, I’m between cars. Well, just before Thanksgiving, I had a call from a client — let’s call him Robert — who asked me to come over to fix his Mac. We set Monday for the visit, and since he lived just a few minutes away, he arrived to pick me […]

An article I read the other day asserts that Apple is merely bringing back Top 40 radio with Beats 1. I’ll get to that presently, but there’s another area in which Apple has taken an old feature and brought it back in a new dress. I’m referring to the Apple Watch and the Digital Crown. […]

So is the conventional wisdom correct? Is broadcast radio truly dead, yesterday’s news and all that? Now this ages me, but when I grew up, FM radio was the luxury you added to a car only if you checked off the appropriate box on the option sheet. FM meant clean sound, relatively free of hiss, […]