To understate the obvious, the iOS 5 upgrade must have been a huge undertaking for Apple VP Scott Forstall and his hardworking crew. They are to be congratulated for carefully crafting a useful set of changes and feature improvements and yet keep performance of your Apple mobile gadget at a high level. Yes, I did […]

I suppose you could call Apple’s iPhone launch the lesser of what was expected, although the hardware changed quite a bit. But I don’t want to get ahead of myself. The anticipation for Apple’s iPhone media event, at the corporate headquarters in Cupertino, CA, was unprecedented. Early on, it almost seemed as if the cat […]

Consider your choices. You can spend $489 for an Amazon Kindle DX (unless they suddenly drop the price), which does little more than read books and publications. You can spend $300-$400 for a netbook, which is a pathetic excuse for a note-book computer — or you can, beginning in March, buy a basic Apple iPad […]

All right, folks, you can save up your spare cash (after filling the gas tank) for your new 3G-enabled iPhone. But the rest of the WWDC keynote more or less what you might have expected — and in some cases, less if you crave instant gratification. Ahead of the Steve Jobs keynote, it was interesting […]