If you can believe the critics, Apple penchant for control may be so paranoiac that they deliberately withhold multitasking from their mobile devices. After all, how can you be allowed to run more than one app at a time, unless it’s from Apple of course? Wouldn’t that interfere with — well, something or other? If […]

You can bet the critics were howling when Apple’s press event and product information on the iPad failed to mention multitasking. How, then, do you run more than a single app at the same time? What if you need to integrate the content you create in, say, Pages with Numbers? Isn’t this all a throwback […]

In the old days of the Classic Mac OS, whenever something went wrong, the standard fix was to rebuild the desktop, check the hard drive with Apple’s disk repair application, and restart. That was the beginning and end of it, even if none of those remedies had anything to do with the problem. Indeed, I […]

Over the weekend, Apple confirmed the purchase of Lala, a Silicon Valley startup that specializes in music streaming. That was sufficient cause to start the tech pundits speculating on how Apple would use its new acquisition, and whether we’re in store for an iTunes music streaming service in the near future, perhaps focused on the […]