Year: 2007

Despite all the complaints from early buyers, Apple’s decision to lower the price of the iPhone from $599 to $399 strikes me as a smart move now that they’re starting to run out of early […]

I was sitting in the room yesterday when Steve Jobs announced that he was discontinuing the 4 gigabyte iPhone and dropping the price of the 8 GB model from $599 to $399.  Many in the […]

I’m not exactly sure who “they” are but I seem to remember that they told us technology would make our lives easier and more efficient. I’m not so sure. Let’s start with our TVs. I’m […]

A poll conducted in June by the Associated Press found that 20% of people brought a laptop computer with them on their most recent vacation and that 80% brought a cell phone. Had I been […]

There is something to be said for having data “in the cloud.” By “cloud,” I don’t mean those white pillowy things in the sky — I mean on a server somewhere, accessible via the Internet. […]

I’m in the awkward position of writing a column today that kind of contradicts the one I wrote last week. As you may recall, I railed against the pervasiveness of advertising in our society, complaining […]

The city of Palo Alto’s new Web site is very attractive, especially when you land on a page with one of its impressive looking photographs. But there is more to creating a Web site than […]