Outside the Beltway

Yesterday, Microsoft became the third American company to reach $1 trillion in market value.

Amazon has joined Apple to become the second American corporation to reach $1,000,000,000,000 in market valuation.

Forty-two years after being founded in a California garage, and twenty years after nearly going broke, Apple Computer has become the first publicly traded company to top $1 trillion in value.

A Federal Judge in New York has denied an F.B.I. request to force Apple to extract data from iPhones involved in a Federal drug case.

Apple is resisting a Federal Court order that it assist the F.B.I. in decryption of the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

Well, that didn’t take long.

Taylor Swift is taking a stand against Apple’s new streaming music service, and she’s largely right.

The Fourth and Fifth Amendments do not prevent the police from compelling you to unlock your phone if you used fingerprint scan technology to lock it, Virginia Judge has ruled.

Apple’s “1984” Super Bowl commercial ran only once, but it remains in a class by itself.

Seven years ago, Steve Jobs showed us that we could literally hold the world in the palm of our hand.

Technically, you don’t own your digital music files. That means you can’t transfer them to your heirs after you die.

Apple has won a huge victory in the smart phone patent wars. If the news reporting is accurate, the outcome doesn’t pass the common sense test.

Most of us with iPhone 4’s use Siri, the voice-activated digital assistant–but for a very limited range of tasks.

It’s not just low wages that have kept technology manufacturing jobs out of the United States.

Before achieving astounding success, Steve Jobs had to experience disappointment and failure.