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April 15, 2011

Friday, April 15, 2011 2:41 PM/EST

Premature “Peak PC” Prognostications Prompt Predictions

By P. J. Connolly

It may be too soon to call time on the dominance of the personal computer, but anecdotal evidence suggests that people with money to spend on technology prefer to spend their money tablets to buying yet another PC.

January 25, 2011

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 1:46 PM/EST

Enterprise IT May Find BlackBerry Bridge Goes Nowhere

By Andrew Garcia

While RIM promises that BlackBerry administrators will soon be able to separately manage personal and corporate data on BlackBerry smartphones through BlackBerry Bridge, I suspect a lack of supported devices will greatly hamper the ability to roll out the feature once it launches later this year.

January 13, 2011

Thursday, January 13, 2011 2:14 PM/EST

There's No Button Like the 'Home' Button

By P. J. Connolly

Rumor has it that Apple is testing new iPads and iPhones that lack a clickable "Home" button and rely instead on multitouch; this horrible idea shows that Apple has learned little from the debacle of the buttonless iPod Shuffle.

January 11, 2011

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:12 PM/EST

Verizon iPhone: Finally

By P. J. Connolly

The Verizon iPhone might be something to cheer if you're tired of AT&T, but the inherent inability to run a voice and a data signal over CDMA means that the Personal Hotspot feature is only useful if you don't want to use your mobile phone as a phone.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 12:17 PM/EST

iPhone on Verizon: The Show Just Might Go On

By Cameron Sturdevant

Now that the iPhone is coming to Verizon--an act that likely would have kept me on an iPhone. Instead, I’ve broadened my horizons and am now happily using an HTC EVO 4G on the Sprint network.

November 22, 2010

Monday, November 22, 2010 7:31 PM/EST

It’s a bouncing baby iOS 4.2.1!

By P. J. Connolly

Apple released iOS 4.2.1 on November 22, just in time for Thanksgiving. Will your family be gathered around the printer, trying to make AirPrint work?

November 19, 2010

Friday, November 19, 2010 2:41 PM/EST

Yet Another Golden Master Released for iOS 4.2

By P. J. Connolly

Maybe the third time's the charm, as Apple releases a golden master of iOS 4.2.1 to developers.

November 10, 2010

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:56 PM/EST

Mac OS X 10.6.5 Released, but Where’s AirPrint?

By P. J. Connolly

Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.5, but strangely, the update doesn't include the promised support for printer sharing with the AirPrint feature of iOS 4.2, which is expected to become available any day now. Is this latest example of Apple's failure to deliver on its public promises a disturbing trend, or just another regrettable exception to its string of successes in the consumer market?

October 28, 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010 3:07 PM/EST

Apple Must Stop Doing Other People's Dirty Work

By P. J. Connolly

Apple's announcements that it would no longer ship Flash as part of the core Mac OS X install and that Java for Mac OS X was "deprecated" may have caught some observers by surprise, but these are smart choices for the company. It may have been necessary to nurture these technologies when Mac OS X was struggling, but it's time for the owners of these technologies to step up to their responsibilities.

October 15, 2010

Friday, October 15, 2010 8:02 PM/EST

Will Apple Ever Ship a White iPhone 4?

By P. J. Connolly

Apple’s troubled white model of the iPhone 4 is available in very limited quantities, but only if you have a friend inside Apple. Is the iPhone 4 cursed?

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