steve jobs

Apple has quietly added a “feature” to their latest round of MacBooks to prevent customers from playing digital rights managed (DRM) movies purchased through their iTunes Store on non-compliant external displays.

Steve Jobs lives. Johntw wrote to CNN a while back and said Steve Jobs had been rushed to the hospital because of a heart attack.

I don't pretend that this blog is a bastion of marketing and business knowledge, nor do I pretend to be an expert in the field, but I have noticed something quite a few times recently.

I was in college when I read that Steve Jobs was returning to Apple and planned to offer computers in multiple colors.  Choice seemed like a good thing to me.  I bought some stock.  It split and grew.

Poor Steve Jobs is like the U.S. economy, rumors of his demise keep being greatly exaggerated.

iTunes' new feature, Genius, is getting a lot of negative reviews but a few good ones as well. The Genius Playlist function, which compiles tracks in the user's collection, is getting far better reviews than the Genius Sidebar, which picks recommendations from the iTunes store.

For my entire high school, college, and teaching years, I was a Mac guy. I wasn't one of those annoying Mac guys that believed that Steve Jobs had cried tears of gold on every Mac produced, but I really liked using them and enjoyed it. When I left teaching, I went to work for a company that didn't use Macs and to be able to work from home, I needed a PC. And based on being a Screensavers fan, I

It’s time travel Monday.

When it comes to tech news and punditry, my news in-box (primarily, an RSS newsreader called NetNewsWire), is filled with items that make me think I’ve gone asleep for 20 years, but unlike Rip Van Winkle, I woken up to discover nothing has changed.