iPad 2 rubs it in: Apple still the real boss in the tablet computer space

Here's a good-news-and-bad-news routine for Apple's rivals in the tablet-computer market.

The good news first: The iPad is no longer the number 1, best-selling tablet computer.

The bad news: It is now the iPad 2.

The iPad 2 shows who's boss.

Its detractors can rant to high heavens and as much as their hearts desire, but the fact remains: The iPad 2's coming is a most blunt reminder for everybody about who is the real king in the tablet computer market — and who are mere pretenders to the throne.

Apple to recall iPhone 4?

A story that appeared in the online edition of the U.K. newspaper Daily Mail said that Apple CEO Steve Jobs might have no choice but to recall the iPhone 4, the latest edition of the Cupertino company's smart phone. Apparently, consumer concern about the diminishing radio signal quality of the handset, and the uncharacteristic mishandling of initial customer complaints by Jobs and company might have painted the normally cool company into a corner.

Jobs has something against bloggers?

Please feel free to kick my behind if I was guilty of taking Apple CEO Steve Jobs' declaration, "I don't want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers," out of context. If I did, maybe because it was not the hardest thing to do. Anyway, here is a link to Jobs' interview with the Wall Street Journal.

A pair of tablet PCs from Asus

(Eee Pad)

While Taiwanese IT vendor ASUS (http://www.asus.com/) claims its pro-cloud computing philosophy has prompted it to come up with the Eee Pad and Eee Tablet slate computers, I cannot help but see something of a poetic justice at work. Please humor me by recalling with me that Steve Jobs and company have berated the netbook on several occasions.