Category: iPhone
@me.com Active
For anyone who uses .Mac email, as I do, Apple’s newest offering is now automatically available – @me.com. In other words, if your .Mac email has been (yourname)@mac.com, it’s now also (yourname)@me.com. While I have read Apple’s announcements about MobileMe, of which @me.com is a part, I am not sure how I feel about having [...]
Apple iPhone 3G Update
A source at Apple tells me that a cosmetic difference between the original iPhone and the new iPhone 3G is that the new model will have a plastic case. Buyers will have a choice of black or white plastic. That could be a issue to some iPhone purists – the brushed metal case of the original [...]
The New iPhone 3G
Readers of this blog and friends have asked my thoughts about the new Apple iPhone 3G that was unveiled, as expected, by Steve Jobs last Monday. Well, I admit that I’ve been dragging my feet a little while I learn more about the new iPhone. Now, a few words: 1. I believe David Pogue of the [...]
Good Headlines, Bad Headlines
A acquaintance writes on Facebook today, “Dear Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer: Vista sucks! Vista is slow on my fast Lenovo x61 with 4GB RAM! [expletive deleted] Driving me to Mac!?” The opinion he expresses is but the latest in a chorus of complaints and news headlines about the significant shortcomings of Windows Vista, the [...]
Where Have All the iPhones Gone? Be Patient
Consumers and techies, alike, have been atwitter over the lack of availability of Apple iPhones worldwide. Everyone knows that a new, 3G-capable iPhone will be debuted soon. But, suddenly and without warning, iPhones vanished from Apple stores and Apple.com in early May. There’s been all kinds of speculation on Web sites and blogs that follow [...]
Blackberry or iPhone?
[Update: on February 11, 2008, service failed for approximately 12-million Blackberry users worldwide, blamed on a server failure at the company's headquarters in Canada. It was the second major service failure in the last year.] Living in the Washington, D.C., area, it seems as if everyone has a Blackberry. People are addicted to them and [...]
