Mike Elgan

Microsoft has a blind spot that prevents the company from succeeding in mobile: It tends to put the right operating system on the wrong device. For years,

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"The iPad isn't mobile." That pronouncement came this week from the world's youngest billionaire and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. In talking about

https://www.apple.com/ https://www.apple.com/ A war of words between the CEOs of Google and Applemakes for great headlines, but does little to illuminate

Prediction: Microsoft will ship a tablet OS based on the Windows Phone 7 platform. This belief is not based on statements by Microsoft, inside information

Facebook announced recently a new list of security features. One of these features makes a lot of sense and is likely to generally improve security. The

In the highly fictionalized movie, The Social Network, the highly fictionalized Mark Zuckerberg invents Facebookso he'll have control over something as

In the Steven Spielberg movie Minority Report, police belonging to a special Pre-crime unit arrest people for crimes they would do in the future. It's

Why did Google use billboard advertising to advertise its advertisements? The company today put up a billboard in New York City to raise awareness about

Google announced this week that it won't launch a Facebook-killer social network, but would instead add a "social layer" to existing products, right?

Suddenly, Google is in the prediction business. Three new initiatives – two launched this week, one still in the lab – show that Google

Why does Apple dominate all aspects of the digital music market, but fail in TV? Why does Microsoft do so well in desktop operating systems, but can't