In recent years, Apple has been criticized for trying to do too much, releasing OS updates with missing and/or delayed features. Or, worse, lots of bugs to drive users crazy. Despite assurances by Apple that its monitoring fewer problems nowadays, facts are nasty things that often get in the way. Consider two embarrassing problems for […]

The story came out of the blue. In February, the U.S. Department of Justice requested and received a court order to unlock the iPhone 5c used as a work phone by a deceased terrorist in the San Bernardino, CA shootings. In short order, Apple filed a petition to overturn the order, claiming such a move […]

In the days following Apple’s announcement of the second best quarterly earnings in the company’s history, the stock price predictably soared after taking a huge dive. This came in the wake of fears that wireless carriers may be revolting against the high subsidies they have to pay for an iPhone compared to the competition. Certainly […]

So there’s a report this week about Microsoft’s first demonstration of the next great version of Windows, known at least for now as Windows 8. This comes on the heels of a curious action from Microsoft’s PR department, where they walked back a statement from CEO Steve Ballmer about Windows 8, and its possible arrival […]