Steve's Geek Speak

Anyone and everyone that has been following the market in recent months knows that Apple has had a pretty significant falling out with Google. To put it bluntly, when Google started developing Android, Apple essentially decided they no longer wanted Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, to be a member of their board and he was cordially booted from their ranks. At the time, the press releases were all nice and fluffy and the...

Everyone and their dog knows that the man attributed with the invention of the telephone as we know it today is Alexander Graham Bell. Regardless of the circumstances around the validity of his patent, his work went on to become the basis for the modern telephone system in place across the globe today and radically changed the way information was communicated across long distances. The Telegraph became the Telephone...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering a plan to ask governments to impose a global consumer tax on such things as Internet activity or everyday financial transactions like paying bills online. Such a scheme could raise "tens of billions of dollars" on behalf of the United Nations' public health arm from a broad base of consumers, which would then be used to transfer drug-making research,...

Last week Apple publicly announced their newest portable device, the Apple iPad. A Tablet design that is essentially a 10 inch iPod Touch. Reactions have been very mixed to the device. The hype and frenzy that built in the lead up to the event in San Francisco last week was typical of big Apple announcements and very similar to that leading up to the announcement of the iPhone a couple of years ago. What is...