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Apple Ranks a Lackluster Fourth in Notebook Reliability Study

Written on November 17, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 19 people have commented

Apple is fairly reliable, but not the most reliable company of all when it comes to notebooks, according to a new study by research firm SquareTrade. The top honor goes to Asus, which surprised me, but I suppose shouldn’t have when I consider the build quality of my fairly inexpensive Eee PC. Toshiba and Sony [...]

Orange Launch Day iPhone Sales Set a Record

Written on November 10, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 2 people have commented

Today is the day the iPhone stopped being an exclusive in the UK. Officially, as of 7 a.m., the device went on sale at Orange retailers across the UK, and the carrier is already claiming that the iPhone has gone over exceedingly well with consumers, despite already having been available to O2 customers since its [...]

85% of Mac Owners Also Have a PC: Report

Written on October 07, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 22 people have commented

Mac users may be getting soft on Windows machines as time moves on, according to a recent report by consumer research firm NPD Group. It found that of those polled, a whopping 85 percent admitted to owning both Mac and Windows PC computers.
That’s a far cry from the polarized days of yore, when even joking [...]

Ego: Web Statistics on Your iPhone

Written on March 13, 2009 by David Appleyard and 3 people have commented

As someone who manages a few different web sites and Twitter accounts, I do find that it’s easy to waste a decent chunk of time checking all their various statistics. I often browse to the different websites from my iPhone, logging into each account sequentially to view the latest number of visitors or news feed [...]

Upgrades, Darn Upgrades and Statistics

Written on November 21, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 1 person has commented

Hopefully Benjamin Disraeli will posthumously forgive me for the major abuse of his quote (made famous by Mark Twain), but the fine folks over at the Omni Group gave us all a sneak peek into some very interesting data they’ve been allowed by users to collect on various details of the operating system their applications [...]