At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple today provided some numbers to assure everyone that the company was still riding high with consumers and developers. Strong Momentum There has been so much noise in the media that Android is crushing Apple, the iPhone and iPad market share is falling and other such alarmist prognostications that […]
(Background: U.S. President Barack Obama meets new Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday, June 7 at Palm Springs in Southern California. Main item on Obama’s agenda is Chinese Cyber-Attacks on U.S. interests or what I call Cyber-Terrorism) Modern terrorists come in many guises. Osama bin Laden is merely one of many terrorist avatars. Among the deadliest […]
All governments violate the basic rights of their citizens in the interests of the powerful and the wealthy. Nothing new about it. Right through history, it’s been that way whatever be the form of government in any country you look at. India, China, Nazi Germany, Vietnam, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, South Africa, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, the […]
The 315.5 million people in America have more than half a billion Internet devices at home, a new survey has found. And according to SI’s hypothesis, the high Internet penetration in U.S. homes is one key reason why crime is so low in America despite the interminable recession, glaring income inequalities, high unemployment, low wages […]
Premature obituaries on Apple have been written so many times, both on the company itself and and its dazzling offerings like the iPhone, iPod, iPad, iMac and iTunes, that it’s now bordering on the tiresome to even scroll through them. Time and again, the naysayers have been caught on the wrong foot and left with […]
If you’re planning on buying a PC or laptop in the U.S., may I suggest you hold off for a while. Given the slumping sales of desktop and notebook computers and growth in popularity of tablets and smartphones, there’s considerable pricing pressure on PCs. I expect that in the coming months there will be further […]