Outside the Beltway

Aides to Governor Chris Christie apparently think there’s still a way he can run a credible campaign for President, but it seems unlikely.

Hillary Clinton addressed the week-long email controversy, but her explanations only raised new questions.

The head of Blackberry thinks he can save his company by getting the government to force others to make content for Blackberry phones

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.

Another example of the silliness of the “trade deficit” concept.

Law enforcement remains unhappy about the recent changes that will make it harder to break into a locked smartphone.

The Semper Venti Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Freedom Of The Press, if you can afford to pay the fee.

A recent change by Apple is good news for advocates of privacy and civil liberties in the Internet Age.

A nation known for adopting new technology is behind the rest of the world in one interesting way.

Dedicated reading improves our brains and our health—unless it’s on a computer screen.

Apple announced a stunning array of upgraded and new products yesterday.

Modern devices are more fragile, frustrating, and resource intensive than those of a decade ago.

In previewing a story about an Arkansas town fighting to keep phone booths, The New York Times explains what those are.

The Justice Department thinks police should be able to search the smart phones of anyone arrested for anything.

Tonight, the American political system stops to engage in the biggest waste of time ever invented.

Apple is pledging to fix a bug in iOs 7 that I have never experienced and never heard of.

One of the perils of the Internet age is that companies constantly go belly up, leaving their customers in a lurch

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

A GOP Senate Candidate in Georgia attempts to back track, and runs off the rails in the process.

Why is Apple unable to meet the demand for its products?

Once dominant atop the smartphone market, Blackberry seems to be counting out the days until its demise.

Apple’s new fingerprint sensor. A cop’s best friend?

My latest for The National Interest has posted.

President Obama is trying to launch a war but there’s a lot of competition for attention.

The military’s finance and accounting system has been dysfunctional for decades and is getting worse.

Those annoying “Sent from my iPhone” signature block disclaimers actually work.

Cellphones have achieved near complete market penetration, and the smartphone is leading the way.

The There’s an App For That Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

With its most recent “upgrade,” Gmail has become much less useful to its best customers.

A Brazilian group is suing Apple for making its iPads better too quickly.

It turns out, the NRA behind the game is not the National Rifle Association.

American politicians are using China as a scapegoat for America’s problems.

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.

TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis declares “Siri Is The New Clippy.”

A new lawsuit from Google’s Motorola Mobility subsidiary seeks to bar Apple from importing it’s most popular products into the United States.

Facebook’s stock has lost nearly 50% of its value since the company went public, and the plunge probably isn’t over.

Storing all your data in the cloud isn’t necessarily a good idea.