Microsoft and the Mac—Sleepless in Seattle Microsoft (hereinafter referred to as Little Blue) is clearly aware that Apple is now a threat to its hegemony. Stave Ballmer must have stopped at Starbucks and noticed the number of Apple laptops in...

Apple Disappointment Other companies must envy Apple its ability to generate attention. The rumours that preceded this weeks' Apple WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference) were many, various and mostly wrong. The point about the WWDC was that Steve...

Israel: There and Back I went to Israel last week—which, if nothing else, explains why this blog posting is a day or two late. I had been scheduled to go to London and was dreading it because the tales of woe from Heathrow Airport were making...

Google and Free WiFi In the US there's been a battle over “net neutrality” with the major carriers wanting to impose tiered charges to companies that generate traffic (like Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay et al). Some lobbyists even...