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If you ever make it to Australia, and you should, the first thing you should do is say "Hi" to Chris Howard. The second thing you should do is visit Shark Bay. There, in the overly salted waters, you'll&

The Kindle is everything the original iPod isn't. It is poorly designed with a bizarre clicker interface that is unintuitive and feels like a step backwards. The physical design of the device is awful. If you've never used one anytime you move or shift or try to&

Recent news leaks from a source within Apple confirm that the company is indeed working on upgrading their current MacBook Air laptops with carbon fiber components. This move was allegedly prompted after certain executives expressed their concerns that the needs of some key demographics were not being&

Carl Sagan had a knack for presenting high-minded physics and astronomy to the masses. Well, masses may be too strong a word, but he was certainly one of the few who could explain technical topics in such a way that the generally interested could follow.

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The One Laptop per Child initiative is a noble pursuit with the goal of providing a Wi-Fi enabled laptop to the poorest and most remote children in the world.

The purpose is to provide educational opportunities for the less advantaged, and as such, price is&

I've always wanted to own a Kindle, but the price tag is just too high. For some reason paying $400 for a digital reader is not the same thing as paying $400 for an iPod, even though I own just as many books as I do digital songs.&

How can you not love Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer? Microsoft may seem troubled of late with the red rings of death on the Xbox, the failure of the Zune to do substantial damage to the iPod's market share, the massive flop that&

Larry Ellison has been, or is, a lot of things. Founder of Oracle, Silicon Valley billionaire, Steve Jobs’s best friend, and someone who talked about buying out Apple.

Ellison was also, for a time, an Apple board member. Since his tenure included the CEO search,&

The last few days the news and blogosphere have been awash with headlines of good fortune for Apple's iPhone. The iPhone is building a lot of momentum that might soon become unstoppable

Here's a few headlines from the last few days:

"iPhone 3G overtakes theRAZR as bestselling&

In 2008 Apple spent over $1 billion on R&D, a %40 increase from the previous year. And I don't expect 2009 will be any different. Adding to my amazement was the realization that software development was not included in that figure. That means that Apple is spending&

Bill Gates took one look at the Mac and knew the future of computing was the GUI interface, and he wanted Microsoft to be a part of it one way or another. So Gates agreed when Steve Jobs pressured him not to make any business programs until&

Apple became a partnership on April 1, 1976. Success came rapidly and soon the company began passing out shares to valued employees and founders. A lot of shares went to the founders.

Apple IIs were selling well and Apple decided to raise cash (and personal net&

After the review I wrote about Path Finder, I started thinking more about how Apple could possibly enhance the Finder in the next version of OS X. Of course it could use a lot of what Path Finder has included, especially tab browsing and increase customization. 

But&

There is no small amount of drama to be found when recalling the public comments of Steve Jobs and Michael Dell.

Michael Dell quipped that if he were President of Apple he would close the company and give the money back to the stockholders. Steve Jobs&

You remember when the iPhone was first announced amid the hype and excitement there was also a ton of people complaining that the iPhone was making all the mistakes of the original Mac. Those people had a point. The iPhone was closed off, Apple expected&