Out of the Newsroom

I spent the morning attending something called “HootSuite University”. If you’ve never heard of it, don’t worry.  It isn’t in the Big Ten, Big East or any other conference and it has no teams of any kind.  It doesn’t even have a mascot. The fact that it doesn’t have a campus should come as no [...]

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Well, everybody who bought an iPhone 4 already. That was the word today from Apple’s CEO.  After Consumer Reports said that they couldn’t recommend the latest version of the smartphone that changed everything, Apple called a press conference to say “We’re not perfect.” They didn’t say that the iPhone 4 was broken, they said it [...]

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The questions around the “can’t touch this” signal performance woes of the just one-week-old iPhone 4 have grown to a fever pitch. So the folks at Apple officially responded with a letter today explaining what they think the problem is:  Better bars. Yes, the folks from Cuperino (not to be confused with Cupidtino, the dating [...]

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Since its debut in 2007, I have ended up with an iPhone on each day it has launched, from the original to the 4th generation model which debuted last Thursday. I have been fortunate in that I have never had to do a ridiculous wait in a line for hours on end or anything like [...]

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A trio of tech news items from the past couple of weeks that I haven’t weighed in on: The iPhone 4 shows Aside from watching Steve Jobs struggle with the WiFi connectivity during the iPhone 4 announcement, I find myself both impressed with the design of the latest generation of the best smartphone in the [...]

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As we close in on the first week of iPads in public, and on the eve of Apple’s interestingly timed event to talk about iPhone’s 4.0 platform, can I just have a moment to rant in as non fan-boy a fashion as possible? What the deuce is this insult-by-faint-praise thing that some folks have about [...]

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