Outside the Beltway

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.

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

It was supposed to be the return of the heady days of the great Tech Industry IPOs. But, things didn’t quite go as planned.

Newspapers are still finding it hard to live in the Internet Age.

Janelle Nanos investigates her relationship with her iPhone.

California’s Governor has vetoed a bill that would have reversed a very misguided decision by that state’s Supreme Court.

What we think the ideal society looks like depends a lot on what kind of society we live in.

The IBM PC was introduced 30 years ago. Has its time passed?

With a Federal ban on sales of incandescent light bulbs fast approaching, manufacturers are still scrambling to invent suitable substitutes.

An attempt at explaining where I am coming from on in the health care discussion.

Apple isn’t the only company collecting data off their smartphones.

Video entertainment is moving in two seemingly opposite directions simultaneously.

The next-generation iPhone 5 is rumored to have a 4 inch screen and even a slide-out keypad.

People find the most interesting ways to justify something that is obviously wrong.

Despite federal laws banning even prison officials from bringing phones inside, tens of thousands of inmates have smartphones.

The phone call is a dying legacy of a bygone day, supplanted by less intrusive forms of communication.

Steve Jobs took the heat off his crappy iPhone 4 by pointing out that other phones suck in different ways.