A Face-Saver For The iPhone Police

November 2, 2011

The iPhone cops achieved little by searching a journalist’s home and seizing his computers. Were they making a case or sending a message?

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Waiting For My Next iPhone

August 30, 2011

To Apple and AT&T: I won’t settle for just any 4G.

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The Overlooked Talent Of Steve Jobs

August 26, 2011

Steve Jobs engineered history’s biggest corporate turnaround.

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Saying No To Service Plans

July 14, 2011

I did a quick survey yesterday and counted 55 Web-capable devices — desktop, laptop, server and tablet computers, plus smartphones — in my life. Being a business owner, and a father of university students, means having to say “yes” to a lot of capital spending. If we include printers, routers, Internet telephones, Slingboxes, televisions and various appliances, my gizmo census is way over 100. But I have zero service plans …

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When Bosses Collude Against Their Talent

October 20, 2010

Back in the 1980s, Major League Baseball owners were unhappy about having to match other teams’ lucrative offers to free-agent stars. They made what they thought was a gentleman’s agreement to shut down the talent market. It worked, though only for awhile. There were 62 free agents after the 1985 season. Only four changed teams. There was a similarly peculiar lack of demand for top-tier players following the 1986 and …

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The iPhone Gestapo

May 14, 2010

I could start this post, “So a guy walked into a bar.” But, in this case, the real story began when that guy walked out of the bar — and left a top-secret prototype of Apple’s next-generation iPhone behind. The Apple software engineer, identified as Gray Powell by the technology blogging website Gizmodo.com, had been testing the new phone, carrying it around in a case that kept it disguised as …

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Steve Jobs Plays Big Brother

May 11, 2010

Imagine you have just bought a new DVD player. You’ve popped the popcorn and you are ready to enjoy a mindless action flick, or maybe a cheesy romantic comedy. Then you discover that the machine will not play your movie because the manufacturer does not approve of such low-quality fare. This is exactly the situation that many new iPad owners may find themselves in. Apple’s chief executive officer, Steve Jobs, …

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YouPad, iDon’t

May 3, 2010

Apple’s new iPad tablet whatchamacallit (is it a minimalist computer or an overgrown cell phone?) is flying off the shelves and into the hands of buyers who are eager to put it to good use. I have not yet figured out exactly what that good use is. I keep asking myself: What would I do with an iPad if I had one? There are a lot of Apple products in …

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A Victory For Old-School Publishers

February 9, 2010

Big retailers seldom acknowledge, let alone apologize for, the “needlessly high” price of the stuff they sell. But Amazon is feeling apologetic these days over having to boost the price of some electronic books. Amazon recently lost a much-publicized tug-of-war with Macmillan, one of the country’s six largest publishers. The outcome means that, in the short term, readers will pay more for some of Macmillan’s new releases, and this is …

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Microsoft, Google, Lewis And Clark

July 17, 2009

Hungry, wet and freezing, the Lewis and Clark party stumbled through the Bitterroot Mountains in September 1805 searching for the Columbia River and its outlet to the sea. “To our inexpressible joy,” wrote Meriwether Lewis on Sept. 19, they finally spied the prairies of the river basin where they would find food and salvation. I know how he felt. Off in the distance, I think I see the edge of …

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