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    Apple in the Era of 24/7 News

    September 23rd, 2009

    I never cease to be amazed at the fact that Apple Inc. can so easily dominate the media, probably more than you and I might want, and I suspect more than even they sometimes desire. Sure, Microsoft can get headlines too, but it seems that Apple, nowadays at least, is treated with far more shock […]


    Browser Market Share: A Reality Check

    October 15th, 2005

    You’ve got to be encouraged by the latest figures of browser market share. Considering the Mac’s allegedly tiny corner of the market, statistics from Net Applications putting Safari at 2.39% as of September is quite an achievement. This is especially true when you look at the October 2004 statistic of 1.46%. Does this represent a […]


    The Mac Hardware Report: When You Believe Apple Lies, Anything is Possible

    September 3rd, 2005

    It’s very easy to take a story and put a negative or positive spin on it. A baseball team loses by five runs, so you point out that the last time they played in the same stadium, they lost by six runs. Now isn’t that an improvement? Maybe it’ll be four runs next time. At […]


    On the Ethics of Paying Reporters for Favorable Stories

    April 23rd, 2005

    I’ve long felt that the news that the U.S. government has paid some reporters to become, in effect, shills for federal programs was the tip of the iceberg. Besides, it’s not as if private industry hasn’t done the very same thing. So I wasn’t surprised to learn that, for example, Corey Greenberg, who works these […]