Mike Elgan is an American journalist, blogger, columnist, and podcaster. He is a columnist for publications including Computerworld, Cult of Android, Cult of Mac, Forbes, Datamation, eWeek, and Baseline.
Apple's in trouble.
The company depends on iPhone revenue for growth. But the iPhone isn't growing.
The competition is. Growth by Chinese smartphone upstarts is in the double digits.
Meanwhile,...
Apple says the iPad Pro is "better than a computer."
(That's an interesting claim to make for a company that makes computers.)
But is it true?
I've been pondering this...
The coming explosion in home automation, which is the consumer dimension of the Internet of Things revolution, is going to be dominated by some company, or some...
The creator of Lotus Notes launched a new communication app this week.
Former Lotus, IBM and Microsoft executive Ray Ozzie, as well as Matt Pope and...
A new trend has emerged where technology companies have realized that abusing and harassing users pays big.
Here's how customer service is supposed to work:...
Google’s Android Wear operating system got very real last week. Google executives demonstrated the platform to 6,000 developers and press at the company’s annual Google...
Apple’s rumored acquisition talks with Beats Electronics got the tech snobs talking.
Beats is best known for headphones widely acknowledged as “mediocre” and “overpriced.” That opinion...
I believe the next big thing in computing is the audio interface. Call it hearable computing.
Hearable computing is not a sub-genre of wearable computing, nor...
 Facebook is the most “valuable” social network on the planet, at least on the basis of a phenomenon called “network effect.”
“Network effect” products are those...