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Consider this: In rural Africa, I have seen women wail and weep when their husbands have made the unilateral decision to marry off their adolescent daughters to an older man.
Osama... Osama bin Laden -- is that you? Yes, yes it is -- who is this? It's me, John Bobey.
The papers were only getting a quick glance at the headlines and a few paragraphs on the front page and the local news section front. The rest was just a pile of dead tree branches.
While the difference between tablets and laptops will start to blur over time, for the moment at least, there is a big market for little laptops like Lenovo's new ThinkPad X220.
Mac sales in its most recent quarter were up despite the popularity of the iPad. One reason sales surged is two new MacBook Air laptops, which in my opinion are the best portable PCs on the market.
Because it has no moving parts, the flash memory in some new computers has big advantages over the spinning media used in hard drives. Reading and writing data is much faster and more reliable.
Laptop PCs are back in the news and, as usual, Steve Jobs gets the credit.
Here's my story, the story of how I'm making it in front of, and behind, the scenes in the world today. Maybe some will be inspired to continue to reach for their goals. Maybe others will understand that it's tough all over.
Apple has a long history differentiating products, creating excitement, and sparking debate not only by being the first to add features, but also by being the first to take them away.
In the early days of computing, both Steve Jobs and Jeff Raskin had visions of an information appliance. The iPad appears to express that vision from decades ago.
Writing on the Apple Blog, Patrick Hunt talks about his 3-year-old daughter's obsession with her iPhone.
Apple is more "evolutionary" than "revolutionary." They take big, ugly, complex and frustrating technology that works, and turn that same technology into something that is smaller, prettier, simpler and friendlier.
A few years back, proving your platform meant whipping out your big black book of press clipping. You know, the ones that proved you could get into the media at will. Not any more.
Designer Jason Wu is a sartorial force to be reckoned with. Usually when someone is described as having shot to fame "overnight," it's used as a figure of speech and not meant literally.
The steady transformation from desert to jungle may be the single most important trend we should be looking at when we talk about the future of news.
If you travel a lot (and are tired of carrying several books with you) or have trouble reading small print, this is the device for you. For everyday reading, the jury is still out. At least for me.
