Year: 2010

Steve Jobs Claims Apple’s Problems are Common to Smart Phones (Photo from Apple Video) Before he announced he was giving every iPhone 4 user a free case and an opportunity to return the phone for […]

Apple is poised to make a major announcement about its recently maligned iPhone 4 at a press conference at its Cupertino headquarters on Friday. Although I don’t know exactly what will be said or who will […]

After months of negotiations, Facebook has reached an agreement with the U.K’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre that will result in a new safety application aimed at British 13-18 year olds. CEOP, the UK […]

The Droid X from Motorola and Verizon is right up there with the Apple iPhone 4 and the HTC/Sprint Evo as one of the coolest and most useful smartphones on the market. The new smart […]

This article first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News The era of ubiquitous Internet access is fast approaching and it can’t arrive soon enough. I’m writing this column from 35,000 feet on a flight […]

Apple’s explanation for the widely reported iPhone 4 reception issues is, literally, stunning. “Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display […]

I’m not sure how typical they are of their generation, but my 26-year-old daughter and her husband recently canceled their cable TV service because they found themselves watching most of their TV programs over the […]

One of the things I like about Google’s Android operating system is that it’s an open platform. Anyone can write an application and, unlike Apple’s tight hold on iPhone and iPod apps, you don’t need […]

I’ve had a GPS device in my car for years and wouldn’t think of driving into unfamiliar territory without one. In addition to finding addresses, most GPS systems can also find “points of interest” such […]