Fear and Loathing and Windows 8 (Or: Why Windows 8 Scares Me -- and Should Scare You Too) I was very excited when I saw the first demos of Windows 8. After years of sett...

What's really wrong with BlackBerry (and what to do about it) Just a couple of weeks after Research in Motion turned in a good earnings report, the death watch over the company has resumed, with Busines...

European vs. American mobile phone use In last week's post about Palm's phone plans, I made a passing comment about the right way to display your mobile phone at dinner i...

Windows 8: The Beginning of the End of Windows I have a longstanding rule for evaluating new tech products: Don't judge anything by the demo. I've seen far too many product previ...

Has Microsoft Gone Nuts? The rumors floating out of Microsoft these days are remarkable: —Microsoft’s Nokia business is working on an Android phone, and Microsoft ...

The Real Meaning of the Fire Phone People have been asking my opinion of the new Amazon Fire Phone, but I’ve had a lot of trouble answering. My first reaction was overwhelming...

Amazon vs. Apple? No, it's Amazon and Apple vs. Everyone Else To me, there's something magnificent about a well-executed product strategy. Features and price and marketing all come together to deli...

Google Logic: Why Google Does the Things it Does “What does Google want?” A favorite pastime among people who watch the tech industry is trying to figure out why Google does things. The V...

Microsoft + Nokia: Now We’re All Like Apple Ten years ago, everybody in the tech industry — and I mean everybody — was convinced that the best way to dominate a technology market was t...