Editorials

Will your next phone be a PC?

Here’s something I thought I’d never say: Microsoft’s already cooler than Apple and getting cooler by the day. Surprisingly, it’s true. It was revealed a while back that Microsoft customers are more satisfied with their tablets than Apple…

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OPINION: More evidence that Nielsen is clueless

Over the long weekend I happened upon this article on DigitalTrends. with quite a proclamation. It stopped me in my tracks, and in fact the entire article was built around the sort of wink-wink, man-bites-dog kind of journalism…




Do you like us on Facebook?

First of all thank you for reading this blog. I realize you have a lot of choices when it comes to the information you look at and you’ve chosen to come here. That’s an incredible compliment….




OPINION: Smartphone design is stalled

Although I’ve yet to see one in person, The Samsung Galaxy S8 is the most fulfilled expression to date of Steve Jobs’ original vision. Mr. Jobs believed that the devices needed to “disappear” behind the content…



End of the road for flash drives?

I may be the last person to buy a flash drive, and I may have bought my last one. Flash drives were the must-have accessory of the early 2000s as we began to need more storage…




EDITORIAL: Will we ever run out of cop shows?

So I finally got around to watching the clumsily named The Paley Center Salutes NBC’s 90th Anniversary which I recorded a while back. I figured it would be a self-congratulating, three-hour-long victory lap light on content and heavy…


How much of a game changer is 5G?

It’s coming. 5G is the next generation of wireless internet and the one thing we know about it is that it will be fast. We’re talking about 100Mbps minimum, with gigabit speeds for many users outside of large…