I teach college classes on innovation, as well as speak regularly on the topic.  And I am frequenty asked how to determine whether new products are sustaining innovations, or disruptive ones.  In 2008, the most common product I was asked about was the iPhone.  To me the answer was obvious.  As a...

Apple announced updates to the iMac and Mac Mini models today. The 24-inch iMac is priced lower and they all come with more memory and larger hard drives standard. The 24-inch models start at $1499 which was the former price point of a 20-inch model. The new Mac minis feature powerful new intergrade...

This morning, Apple revealed their new, updated Mac Mini along with other announcements about the Mac Pro and iMac systems.  The new Mac Mini will feature an Intel Core 2 Duo processer running at 2.0 GHz, will feature NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics, and is available in a 2GB RAM / 320GB HDD system f...

I must admint that netbooks are a tech that puzzled me somewhat.  For a time I felt they were too small and, more importantly for me, too underpowered.  Of course, what I was thinking about were mini laptops that I tested over the years - there was no netbook category.  They were ultraportable la...

This morning we showed you an image of what might just be the Mac mini refresh after it was leaked around the interwebs last night. Skeptics across the web immediately dismissed it as a laughable Photoshop job and went to great lengths to prove their point. We were skeptical as well of course, but w...

So, I have this backpack that holds my laptop in a zippered pouch on the back, and all of my awesome camera gear on the front. Of course, the primary security mechanism for the laptop is a zipper to actually hold it inside when you walk around. Yeah. This is what happens when you don’t actuall...

Apple is known for their impressive press events where they invite all the journalists and bloggers who could be interested to make presentations of new products and get all the coverage they can get in both online resources and traditional media. Sometimes these events are also broadcast live onlin...

What to do with your new 17-inch MacBook pro … Check your e-mail? Sync your iPod? Play Chess? How abou taking everything apart so you can gawk at the innards and void your warranty? That’s what the folks at iFixit did, and the result is, well, pretty similar to what’s inside the 15...

And in other Microsoft news, the company is offering up a bounty of $250,000 for any information that leads to the arrest of the authors of a recent computer worm that provides hackers an easy route to identity fraud and theft. It's not the first time Microsoft has offered a reward for information l...

Lim Ding Wen is a 9-year old Chinese boy. But not just any Chinese boy, Ding Wen wrote a finger painting iPhone app for his younger siblings. Lim, who is now fluent in six programming languages, first started using a computer when he was two-years-old, discovered programming aged seven, and has sinc...