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    Dock Your Smartphone?

    March 31st, 2017

    As I wrote in Wednesday’s column, the brand spanking new Samsung Galaxy S8 will be able to connect to a regular PC display and input devices. So you have an interesting slant on a 2-in-1 device — perhaps. This will be done courtesy of something called Dex, a dock, costing $150, to which you can connect the […]


    More Nonsense From the Wacky Online World

    October 4th, 2011

    From time to time, I like to read some of the curious blogs from certain controversial online tech commentators, while always worrying whether they are just making things up because they’re seeking more traffic. Certainly I understand that people are entitled to their own opinions, but I also believe in that old saying, that people […]


    Is Apple’s Hobby Losing its Hobby Status?

    December 22nd, 2010

    So the news comes this week that approximately one million of the new generation Apple TVs have been sold, raising hopes that this perennial hobby product that might, some day, shed that status. But do these initial sales signal a trend, or will the rate fall off sharply after the holiday season? Now at $99 […]


    Apple Versus Google: Welcome to the World of Buyer’s Remorse

    November 30th, 2010

    So the statistics that recently came out are telling. According to a report from Daniel Eran Dilger in AppleInsider, iPhone purchasers are more than twice as likely to want to buy another as those who bought Android-based devices. The article explains it all, so I’ll be brief. The iPhone and the iOS earned a 59% […]