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Apple today announced that its founder and Chairman, Steven P. Jobs, has passed away.  The world has lost one of a kind.

No description really suits Jobs.  He was not just a manager, an inventor, an engineer, an artist, a control freak, a salesman or an inspirational speaker, yet he was in part all of those. 

Akio Morita, the founder of Sony, said of innovation, "If you ask the public what they think they will need, you will always be behind in this world. You will never catch up unless you think one to 10 years in advance and create a market for the items you think the public will accept

My investment advice can be summarized one word:  valuation.  Through painful and expensive lessons in more than a decade of investing, I learned that when you buy “popular” stocks that everyone knows about, you get burned badly because they inevitably become overvalued.  It’s the function of the law of supply and demand.  When everyone’s buying

I am writing this blog in the living room, in front of the TV, comfortably on the sofa. Apple's new iPad makes this possible.

After testing the device for two weeks, I find myself spending more time on the sofa and getting out of bed later because I can check my e-mail, read the morning headlines

Is Apple's stock (AAPL) overvalued?  As a person who's been following the stock since the mid 1990s and has owned shares since 2007, let me play devil's advocate.

People think I'm an Apple apologist.  I suppose I am in the sense that I'm a big fan of their products, but it's not based on blind faith.  I use their products, I've used other makers' products and I know from experience that Apple's products work seamlessly and actually understand the users.

That naturally begs the

A buddy suggested I write about stocks to increase readership to this blog.  Why he thinks this is a winning strategy is beyond me.  I wrote  about the same kind of stuff in a weekly column called "Strictly Business" 87 times in four years in college but I got more attention the one time I wrote

My sister, that bored nincompoop, created Note in Facebook with a list of 25 random facts about herself and then created a "rule" under which an unfortunate soul who was tagged will have to do the same thing.  Presumably this is the most modern rendition of the cursed chain letter so the failure to respond

My family's home in New Jersey has received quite a technology upgrade over the last three months, culminating with the iMac replacing the five and a half year old eMac as my mom's main computer.

The initial process began in October when I moved to NYC.  I needed a wireless hub and the one I got