Category: 723: Apple Ranked World’s Most Valuable Brand, Celebrating 10 Years of iPod, iOS Privacy Issues, eWaste VT!

The old guys on the Boston Celtics let me down and were eliminated by the Heat on Wednesday. I guess I’ll have to start cheering the Bulls on since they are my second favorite NBA team and will now play the same star-laden Miami Heat. During the Terry Ehrich award ceremony, my friend Melinda Moulton…

Live near Vermont or New Hampshire? Have some tech stuff to recycle? We’re holding FREE eWaste Events in both Vermont and New Hampshire this year, so come on down! *Our Vermont event is scheduled for TOMORROW, Saturday, May 14th at National Life Group Headquarters in Montpelier, VT.* “*View website here.*”:http://www.smalldog.com/ewastevt *Our 2nd annual New Hampshire…

This Wednesday, Apple VP Bud Tribble joined Google’s Alan Davidson in a U.S. Senate panel on mobile privacy. Prompted largely by the recent controversies surrounding Apple’s purported collection and usage of user data from its mobile iOS platform, Tribble–armed with a “*formal letter*”:http://markey.house.gov/docs/apple_letter_to_ejm_05.06.11.pdf (opens a PDF) from Apple–testified on the exact details of the company’s…

Do you remember when artists used to measure their success in terms of record sales? Some of us old geezers do. Now it’s all about the number of downloads. Apple arguably kickstarted the digital music revolution in 2001 with the release of the first iPod. Since then, the portable music player has seen numerous incarnations…

A recent survey conducted by “*BrandZ*”:http://www.brandz.com/output/ has ranked Apple the world’s most valuable brand, with an estimated worth of $153 billion. Boasting an incredible 84% value shift in the last year, Apple displaced four-time list king Google by more than $40 billion. Surpassing tech heavyweights IBM, Microsoft and AT&T–which all appeared in the top ten–Apple’s…

_Dear Friends,_ We have finally had a week of real spring weather with some sunshine and warm temperatures. It is almost like a switch was thrown because all of the trees suddenly have leaves, the mud has dried up and the big apple tree outside my window is covered with blossoms. Lake Champlain is at…