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• Gary Krakow is off his rocker, blames MSFT for iPhone battery woes

  Nice to see someone else going after the mainstream media for unfairly blaming Microsoft for something, in this case—get this—the iPhone 3G's poor battery life. Head's up, guys. Push kills battery life, no matter where the service comes from.... Posted Jul 15 2008, 03:24 PM by pthurrott with | with 53 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Mobile, Cloud computing

• MobileMe: Push vs. Sync

  I've gotten a ton of email about Apple substantially backing down from its initial claims about MobileMe's capabilities. (And not to be a jerk about it, I warned you: Unlike many people, I've used .Mac for years, and it was always a piece... Posted Jul 14 2008, 11:06 AM by pthurrott with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, XP, iPod, Mobile, Cloud computing, Vista

• MobileMe launch delayed ... Where's the outrage?

  Apple shut down its .Mac service yesterday to launch MobileMe and then ... ran into problems. As of today, MobileMe is still not available, and of course .Mac is down as well . So I have to wonder. Where's Ina Fried's scathing blog attack on Apple... Posted Jul 10 2008, 12:39 PM by pthurrott with | with 72 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Mobile, Cloud computing, Vista, Commentary

• Bob Cringely is off his gourd

  The Robert X. Cringely stuff was cute once, but it's hit "Fake Steve Jobs" territory now: We know who you are, and it's just not fun or funny anymore. More to the point, The X-Man's latest is just plain crazy talk : MeMobile, You... Posted Jun 13 2008, 07:18 PM by pthurrott with | with 22 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Alt. Windows, Cloud computing, Commentary

• Apple MobileMe ... PC vs. Mac

  Apple’s MobileMe isn’t just a warmed over PC- and iPhone-compatible version of .Mac. It’s important for two reasons: Apple is jumping headfirst into the cloud computing market. (And confounding pundits who predicted they’d partner with Google.) Apple... Posted Jun 09 2008, 10:44 PM by pthurrott with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, XP, iPod, Internet, Mobile, Cloud computing, Vista

• Questions and comments about Firefox 3, IE 8, the future of Web browsers, cloud computing, and how it all comes together

  So it's always amusing to me when the mainstream press tries to cover tech products, but I was particularly interested in this one since I'm in the middle of writing my own Firefox 3 review. I think that terms like "innovative" are thrown... Posted May 26 2008, 01:29 PM by pthurrott with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Internet, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Cloud computing, Vista, Commentary

• Apple Releases Safari 3.1

  Apple PR continues the company's ceaseless exercise in hyperbole: The World’s Fastest Browser Now on Mac and Windows Apple today introduced Safari 3.1, the world’s fastest web browser for Mac and Windows PCs. Safari loads web pages 1.9... Posted Mar 18 2008, 11:38 AM by pthurrott with | with 25 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Internet, Cloud computing

• Macworld 2008 keynote: Initial thoughts

  Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Note that these are initial thoughts only. I'm guessing there will be a lot more to say about this later. Leopard update Apple sold 5 million copies of Leopard in 2007, "the... Posted Jan 15 2008, 12:41 PM by pthurrott with | with 19 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iPod, Digital media, Cloud computing, Content, Apple TV

• Apple Safari 3.04 beta

  OK, it's still unclear why they're bothering, but Apple is clearly improving Safari 3.x on Windows at a pretty impressive rate. Here's what's new in the latest version: The Safari 3 Beta for Windows version 3.0.4 Update is recommended... Posted Nov 20 2007, 12:10 PM by pthurrott with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Internet, Cloud computing