Here’s the latest action: The Steve Jobs saga continues — Talk about the Apple chief executive and his health issues remain everywhere you look. Newsweek columnist Dan Lyons says the media’s coverage of Apple “bites.” As you might expect after their heated exchange the ...

Apple’s stock was down today, but not as much as you might expect on the day following an announcement that its chief executive Steve Jobs will be taking a five month medical leave of absence. Why? Maybe it’s because Apple’s investors (and bargain hunters) realized that with or wit...

I vividly remember my first video game system, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), and the games that came with it: Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt. Now I can recapture my youth on my iPhone because some developers have made a port of Duck Hunt for the device. I’ll brush aside the ques...

I’ve talked about the regrettable 3-D TV trend at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in a separate post. But I spotted some other trends among the 2,700 exhibitors at the show as well. Gesture control and multi-touch screens: Part and parcel of good industrial hardw...

Most $0.99 gag apps for the iPhone are crap. But I came across one today that I actually see myself using quite a bit when I’m out with friends: iPity, an app that’s an animated head of 80’s pop culture icon Mr. T who recites some of his most classic lines when you touch the screen...

Apple’s final Macworld Expo keynote today drew reviews that seemed to universally range from boring to awful. For a company that has been no stranger to praise from the press in recent years, there’s a growing concern that Apple can no longer live up to expectations and that it may be a ...

A phishing scam spread quickly on Twitter throughout the weekend — so quickly that Twitter had to put a message up on the main site telling users not to sign in to fake Twitter URLs sent by direct message from people they follow. Now another scam is apparently erupting, and this time thereR...

You have to hand it to Mat Brady of planetmat and Jesus Diaz of Gizmodo, they are good at making mockups of dream iPhones. Unfortunately, their dreams are far from my dreams. Just a week after doing an “iPhone Pro” mockup that I ridiculed for including a keyboard, they’re back with...

There’s simply no denying that 2008 was a good year for Apple. Sales of just about everything were up, and market share went up too, but the real gems for the company were the iPhone 3G and its accompanying App Store. Our top stories about Apple this year definitely reflect that — as yes...

Microsoft’s media player device, the Zune, is a failure. No, really. Sometime around 2:00 AM last night, the 30 gigabyte version of the device became “totally unresponsive and practically useless,” according to Gizmodo. Yes, that apparently means all of them. Microsoft has confirme...