How many times have you checked available Wi-Fi connections on a note-book, Mac or PC, and found several that weren’t password protected? Now I understand a commercial hot spot, such as T-Mobile, where you can’t actually do anything online without having an active account or ordering up a pass for an hour or a day. […]

There’s no question that Apple’s marketing people like to use memorable names with which to identify some products or product features. Where, for example, a company might call its Wi-Fi router a WZR-G108, Apple calls it an AirPort Extreme. But that wasn’t always the case. When the first Macs with PowerPC appeared in 1994, there […]

There’s no question that Apple’s marketing people like to use memorable names with which to identify some products or product features. Where, for example, a company might call its Wi-Fi router a WZR-G108, Apple calls it an AirPort Extreme. But that wasn’t always the case. When the first Macs with PowerPC appeared in 1994, there […]

Now I’m not going to suggest that Apple planted those stories about the switch to Intel processors. Oh well, I’ve said it. In any case, when Steve Jobs let the cat the rest of the way out of the bag, some of the technology pundits managed, as usual, to screw up the facts about the […]