Apple’s new iPad is upon us. Does it deliver? The bar is so astoundingly high for Apple that anything less than jaw-dropping translates to a disappointment. So where does the new iPad fall? When the iPhone 4s was released last October, the upgrades were strong, if predictable, but lacked the titillation we had come to [...]

I was in the trenches when D&D and comics were still wedgie-worthy and sci-fi was light-years from trendy. The past decade has seen the advent of the geek, from social misfit and misanthrope in the eyes of mainstream folk, to sexily shy gatekeepers of an arcane world of technology and acronymic web lingo. While so many [...]

Apple’s new CEO, glass-closeted and future super-gay, Tim Cook, revealed the latest model of the beloved iPhone today. In the past 24 hours we went from expecting an iPhone 5, to perhaps both a 5 and a 4s, to actually getting only a 4s. The new phone has the same casing as iPhone 4, so [...]

It’s A Social Smackdown Remember when Microsoft ruled the world? Me, neither. But it did. Windows was ubiquitous and while a mainstream user might have had complaints, they were tethered to the giant; the only game in town. There was little motivation to innovate when you had a virtual monopoly. While nerds and artists embraced [...]