Month: July 2008

You may have heard about the security flaw that affects the entire Internet. It’s actually a problem with the software behind just about all domain name servers – DNS for short. A domain name server […]

My editor at the Mercury News has a right to be angry at me because my column is late. But I have an excuse. The very technology I write about is the source of my […]

Based on what we’re hearing about all the new iPhone applications, you’d think it was the first smart-phone to run third-party software. It’s not. In fact, all three major smart-phone operating systems – Palm, BlackBerry […]

The new Apple 3G iPhone has received a lot of attention, but the more important story isn’t the new hardware, but Apple’s application store and the many programs that run on the new phone. Thanks […]

Knee-deep in iPhone 2.0 fever, I’ve been thinking about the annual cost of using not only that device but all our other gadgets that require a subscription service.As you probably have heard, AT&T has raised […]

This week marks my 25th anniversary as a tech columnist. “The Computer File,” my syndicated Los Angeles Times column, debuted July 3, 1983. My first topic was “Learn Buzzwords Before Shopping,” in which I informed […]